It's 2026, we have LLM's and one-click everywhere. And still people have to pay "techs" to setup hosting and domains for them....
replyOf course https://xkcd.com/2501/
replyHaha, I had to laugh a lot about this.
replyThis is essentially DNS, every single step of the way. Hosting wouldn't be hard if ISPs weren't so hostile with carrier-grade NATs, if HTTP/S wouldn't rely on DNS primarily, if legitimization were using actually mTLS instead... and all of the things usually break because of DNS and (lack of) proper standardization.
DNS in its current form is such a shitshow of RFCs overriding RFCs overriding RFCs...and not a single moment was spent on the configuration of DNS, or a protocol to request a domain, or a protocol to authenticate a domain, or a protocol to host something for a domain, ...
/nerdrage
At this point, I want to see the next indieweb thing be forgoing domains entirely, instead passing around IPv4 addresses and keeping your own indexes in a markdown file or something
replyPeak HN comment. Barely anyone knows what a "domain" is, no-one knows what DNS is. Very few people would even know what questions to ask AI.
replyI know people in tech consulting advising large finance enterprises for 3+ years who barely know what DNS is.
replyReddit /r/sysadmin "Everything is DNS because I don't actually understand what I am doing or what is happening"
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