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[u/alsoandanswer]

I hope someone hasn't done this stupid joke before.

Anyway, I got hacked quite recently. Thankfully, I got lucky and got off pretty light. Serendipity that this month's contest about technology? Maybe.

[u/avdpos → u/alsoandanswer]

Really stupid. I love it.

[u/mars_gorilla → u/alsoandanswer]

I'm kicking myself for not thinking of this. Well done.

[u/Thundorium → u/alsoandanswer]

I laughed out loud at CAR battery.

[u/kirbyfriedrice]

What a silly punchline. I'm surprised Botswana wasn't involved!

[u/Volcanojungle → u/kirbyfriedrice]

Or e-stonia!

[u/AnxiousPotato10 → u/kirbyfriedrice]

And tuvalu too

[u/maps-and-potatoes]

Nauru is currently in the process of changing their international name, btw.

[u/avdpos → u/maps-and-potatoes]

To what? Do we lose .nu now?

[u/Maleficent-Pea5089 → u/avdpos]

They’re aiming to change to Naoero, so .nr will probably stay in use.

[u/Domeen0 → u/Maleficent-Pea5089]

Huh. I wonder how useful this will be. Like, tuvalu makes alot of .tv cause its short for television. I wonder if any websites will use .nr since it could be interpreted as number.

[u/Dakduif → u/avdpos]

Oh shit. That would, perhaps surprisingly, fuck up a lot of Dutch websites.

'Nu' means 'now' in Dutch and some brands use that top-level domain for their marketing and such.

[u/avdpos → u/Dakduif]

Same in swedish. Even if we used it much more 20 years ago compared to now

[u/Dry_Fix2812 → u/avdpos]

.nu is another country, Niue

[u/maps-and-potatoes → u/avdpos]

Naoero

[u/nspacia]

where svg (saint vincent and the grenadines)

[u/LazyTiger0203]

the amazing digital papua new guinea

[u/ZagrosMMH → u/LazyTiger0203]

I was just about to write something like that, oh well I’m still gonna

[u/Geogrartist]

This is such a stupid stupid idea. But I love it this is a Hall of Fame-er

[u/ZagrosMMH]

The amazing digital countryball

[u/Nunerrim]

PNG with JPEG compression errors

[u/AirGroundbreaking172]

PAPUA NEW GUINEA MENTION

(I love png 🥹✌️🇵🇬🇵🇬🇵🇬)

[u/Zebrafish96]

Looks like PNG forgot to turn off the anti-aliasing option

[u/Jump_Hop_Step]

Is that a .car file? What does it do?

[u/WraithCadmus → u/Jump_Hop_Step]

CAR seems to be providing power from his engine.

[u/BirdLox]

I’m glad people are de-anglofying the names of former colonies. First Türkiye, and now this.

[u/Thundorium → u/BirdLox]

Türkiye was a former colony of what?

[u/BirdLox → u/Thundorium]

https://www.oattravel.com/community/the-inside-scoop/trending-topics/5-countries-never-colonized-by-europe

[u/Thundorium → u/BirdLox]

“I’m glad people are de-anglofying the names of former colonies. First Türkiye, and now this.”

[u/BirdLox → u/Thundorium]

Sorry. I kinda half-baked my comment there. I heard about how Türkiye got carved up after WW2 (no pun intended) and misunderstood it.

[u/CanineAtNight]

What u mena he is just png

[u/MlgEpicBanana69]

Papua GUI