Re-posted to fix my filename emoji. You can’t make this shit up

  • Grendel@tiny.tilde.website
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    13 hours ago

    @Wizard_Pope oh yeah they do that for everyone. It’s a safety feature called puny code.

    people were using weird chars to impersonate well known domains for phishing, so if you register a domain using unusual or mixed language characters it renders it as puny code to prevent spoofing.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Yeah I know about the spoofing thing like using cyrilic letters and shit. I just thought hieroglyphs would resolve to actual hieroglyphs