WHOIS vulnerabilities and TLDs

I did most of my year-end discussion in my post How did my listening evolve? Spotify Wrapped 2024, but I wanted to spare a post for my favorites (subjectively, not quantitatively) of the year. As a shortcut, I put most of the items on my lists that are available on Bandcamp in this Buy Music Club list. Best albums of the year SWIM - In Circles...

Over the years the dominant genres in my music taste have evolved, from mostly pop-punk in the early aughts, to primarily indie rock and bloghouse music in the late aughts, to house in the early tens, and now a much wider variety of electronic music, including UK garage and some trance. As what and how I listen to music has changed over the last...

It’s time for my annual deep dive into Spotify Wrapped! I continue to primarily listen to music I own and diversify my streaming habits beyond Spotify to include SoundCloud and YouTube as well. As a result, my Spotify Wrapped is less and less representative of my actual listening history. Let’s dig into my top artists and tracks of 2024 according...

Tianyu Fang researched a long and detailed essay called Whose Domain Is It?, detailing the politics of the Internet’s domain names, especially the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) that you might not realize are actually associated with countries. The unexpectedly popular ccTLDs can operate like a tourism effort, at least in terms of...

The UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius: Half a century or more after the UK relinquished control over almost all its global empire, it has finally agreed to hand over one of the very last pieces. It has done so reluctantly, perhaps, but also peacefully and legally. The Chagos Islands are also known as the British Indian Ocean...