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Oh pretty please, if we revive this protocol, can we please pick a better name? Like, any name? Literally anything else, that doesn’t evoke weirdly sexual imagery?
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Well I thought about it and if it's a body part there will be someone into that. Then I thought maybe poke, nope some are into that too. I guess maybe "status" port? Kindof like having an away message. It could be a fixed buffer as to not overlflow. Of course that could be accomplished in DNS using TXT.

Honestly I am too lazy to make an RFC. Maybe if enough people make a finger.domain.tld text record it would catch on. [1]

    dig +short -t txt finger.nochan.net
    "status: currently spending time on hacker news."
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[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/finger.nochan.net

[2] - https://blawg.nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260527-DNS-A-Repl...

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Like fist?! Oh wait…

Glove would work

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Like the protection metaphor there, glove would be great for TLS finger!
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