Post An33TTtstF4b0UTjns by AstolfoPrime@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #An2x0AAYZTxbgmuiIq by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-10-16T00:06:15Z
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I'm loving all the people saying the United Kingdom has 2 ccTLD, .uk and .gb, it's a great testament to the quality of geography education
(DIR) Post #An2xJKteuXvWSh9VXU by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-10-16T00:09:43Z
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To put it into American terms, the United part is very important. It's like saying USA and Texas are the same thing, no Texas is part of the USA
(DIR) Post #An2yDbaU2gguRa0xXs by Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org
2024-10-16T00:19:52Z
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@BrodieOnLinux To be fair, the situation with the British Isles is kind of strange to begin with. Great Britain covers the larger island where England, Scotland and Wales live, whereas the United Kingdom also covers Northern Ireland as well as most of the territories around the main isle.But Britons typically do refer to the whole of the UK as Britain too, which makes it hard to distinguish. And historically they called themselves the *British* Empire. None of that helps. 😛
(DIR) Post #An2yL4Bg6gxJAiyBf6 by normplum@fosstodon.org
2024-10-16T00:21:13Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I've always been confused by the difference between 'Britain' and the 'United Kingdom'. At least 'England' is obvious.
(DIR) Post #An2yLnLUD4XVEAu9hI by Yuki@groupe-tazor.com
2024-10-16T00:21:19.335Z
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@BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social except GB is the ISO code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, they wanted UK but ISO said no, just saying "United Kingdom" isn't descriptive enough, yet they still managed to get the TLDarguably the same could be said of US and the United States
(DIR) Post #An2ypGSP3KdxuhByd6 by dutch_connection_uk@mastodo.neoliber.al
2024-10-16T00:26:38Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Almost wish scottish independence happened just so that this could be even more confusing for people.
(DIR) Post #An2zz0VNJhwdHyn9nc by EdanOsborne@mstdn.social
2024-10-16T00:33:38Z
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@yuki @BrodieOnLinux UK can also apply to Ukraine (for example, in the LibreOffice langpacks), rather than the United Kingdom, just to confuse everyone further.
(DIR) Post #An326uVThbFeuVjiLo by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2024-10-16T01:03:05Z
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@BrodieOnLinux OK, fine. But then… Why doesn't France have the .hexagon ??? 😄
(DIR) Post #An32LQM25eSbjqEsa0 by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2024-10-16T01:06:01Z
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@BrodieOnLinux but then, do all the German landers have their own ccTLD? They are about as autonomous as US states…
(DIR) Post #An33TTtstF4b0UTjns by AstolfoPrime@mastodon.social
2024-10-16T01:18:46Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Americans are shit at geography. Change my mind.
(DIR) Post #An35CMHk9LDANGbLua by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-10-16T01:38:06Z
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@AstolfoPrime Why would anyone do that, it's the truth
(DIR) Post #An3M8zmV3pGevoyBua by zstg@fedia.social
2024-10-16T04:33:08.902Z
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@BrodieOnLinux in your video you mention .rs domains too 💀
(DIR) Post #An3M90YMBtY5KFMPVQ by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2024-10-16T04:47:58Z
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@zstg .rs is special case where they didn't think Russia was just going to hold onto .su for so long.
(DIR) Post #An59yxksvcb8cOaGJ6 by KarolSt@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T01:41:05Z
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@BrodieOnLinux .gb is a ccTLD for the United Kingdom though.
(DIR) Post #An5Jnzq7px7ZRJRcsS by KarolSt@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T01:37:54Z
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@EdanOsborne @yuki In lang packs, you use language codes, not country codes. uk (lowercase) is Ukrainian (the language), UA (uppercase) is Ukraine (the country). Similarly, ja vs JP, sl vs SI, sv vs SE, et vs EE, tg vs TJ, ky vs KG, tk vs TM, kk vs KZ, lo vs LA, vi vs VN, sr vs RS.
(DIR) Post #An5KNfh4DWCtNmDcrQ by Yuki@groupe-tazor.com
2024-10-17T03:37:38.714Z
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@KarolSt@mastodon.social @EdanOsborne@mstdn.social yeah it's another ISO standard completely (ISO 639), we're talking about ISO 3166, because languages don't always correspond 1:1 to the country they're spoken in, actually it's far from it
(DIR) Post #An5WsZIRFbPVy8CLeS by fredbrooker@witter.cz
2024-10-17T05:57:39Z
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@BrodieOnLinux let's make America Great Again = .aga