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Yep, I manage a lot of domains for my organization and our members, and work on our and infrastructure regularly. I basically always end all DNS queries with a period to ensure Windows or Linux aren’t trying to append anything like a search domain and screwing with my results. Fixes so many issues, especially when you’re expecting an NXDOMAIN result.

Can confirm what the other commenter said, completely impossible to have an effect. .com and .gov and .fr and .nz are what’s called TLDs or Top Level Domains. Everything is delegated down from that level for any subdomains. .fr and .nz are country owned and any attempt to take control of that would be returned to their respective governments by ICANN.

I mean US hospitals still use fax machines and banks use OTP over SMS, so all things are possible I guess.

Oh fuck, Drop Pears now too?

Yeah I’m right there with you. I have one of their beta devices and it… Kinda works?? The one thing Alexa does very very well is picking up on the voice who spoke her name over a very loud environment. I can have my TV blasting and it’ll still hear me without needing to shout louder than the TV. Using Alexa via Haaska rather than giving Alexa direct control was a requirement for me though because I don’t want it to know full details of what it’s actually controlling, just device names and types.

Should have been pretty obvious to anyone reading any tech news whatsoever today, especially in the context of where you responded. No apology from you should have been necessary!

They’re the same picture.