Friday link roundup: November 3, 2023

.io considered harmful

https://www.beep.blog/io/

This has been known about for a while, but new people are still learning every day: The .io domain is allocated for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which is an *extremely recent* example of colonialism and ethnic cleansing.

Internet FAQ Archives

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/

A wealth of useful information!

discordo

https://github.com/ayn2op/discordo

> A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client.

I answered the Collatz Conjecture

https://mathforums.com/t/i-answered-the-collatz-conjecture.363281/

This has to be a troll, it’s too beautiful to not be.

> When plugging 0 in for “x” we are able to bypass the conjecture since 0 is an even number. That leads us to T(0) = 0/2 and since 0 is a complex number, the right side of the equation requires we apply 0 the imaginary value i^2–1. So now we have T(0)=i^2–1/2 – the value of the variable T is zero or undefined, so it must be simplified down to 0 to the 0 power. i^2 in the numerator is cancelled out by the common denominator /2. What are you left with? 0^0 = −1

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/apple_safari_browser/

Corporations, smh.