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Cake day: February 27th, 2026

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  • So if a poster uses an em dash out of that context, it right away throws up a red flag cuz… howd you do that easily?

    Did you memorize the alt code to make one?

    On KDE, the default keyboard layout makes it pretty easy to type the various dashes and quotation marks, so that’s one way. Ever since discovering that, I’ve been making a conscious effort to use them (because I am the type of person who likes doing the typograhically correct thing, even in an informal context… maybe that’s the problem, actually). Haven’t been called out as “AI” yet, but it’s probably going to happen at some point.




  • The information returned by whois depends on the registry. For example, most registries for European TLDs basically just show whether the domain is registered (I say “most” because I’m not sure whether it’s actually all or if there are exceptions, but I know .de is like this). In that case, there aren’t even “whois privacy” services available from registrars. For TLDs from other countries or gTLDs, this might vary.

    In either case, do note what the other comment says. Whois is not the only way to identify who runs a service.

    it returns a lot of information such as registrar name, abuse contact, creation date… even though i paid extra for “whois privacy.”

    If you didn’t pay for whois privacy, it would most likely return your actual name, email address, phone number, and home address instead. “Whois privacy” just means your registrar inserts their information into these fields instead, and forwards any mail they might get to you.