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HTTP Cats
- benatkin 7y agoThe .cat domain is restricted to Catalan-speaking stuff, but this site still exists. Well played, Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat#Restrictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat#Restrictions Poking around, it has a catalan translation, but not a spanish or french translation. https://http.cat/?lang=cat https://http.cat/?lang=cat https://http.cat/?lang=es https://http.cat/?lang=es https://http.cat/?lang=fr https://http.cat/?lang=fr Edit: http://nyan.cat/ http://nyan.cat/ has a catalan version too (català). Apparently you've been nyaning is has nyanyejat in catalan: "HAS NYANYEJAT DURANT 117.6 SEGONS Tweet Your Score"
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- snvzz 7y agoNyan is an Onomatopœia for the sound a cat makes, commonly used in Japan. English usually uses "meow". The catalan word is "mèu". The "to meow" verb would be "miolar", thus "Nyanyejar" is just "to nyan" turned into a catalan verb, kinda.
- benatkin 7y agonyancats only nyan though...
- trhway 7y agoThe situation is much worse for the dogs in Ukraine as after passing of the new language law they can't bark "ghav-ghav" in Russian anymore and must instead bark "dzyav-dzyav" in Ukrainian.
- jchw 7y agoEven more, I suspect the reading as “nyan” was actually accidental, the onomatopoeia is usually just “nya” if I recall correctly. Which is easy to understand. The music in the background of the “Nyancat” video is actually produced with UTAU, a sort of offshoot of Vocaloid, the voice synthesis software, using an “UTAUloid” called Momo, with the song being entitled “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!”. It seems that “Nyan” resulted from parsing it out of the sequential “nya”s. It’s kind of fascinating how the “poptart cat” gif and the UTAU song somehow ended up merged into this bizarre internet phenomena.
- WorldMaker 7y agoI also wonder if its at least partly (presumably, subconsciously) the adoption of the -an suffix (as adjective marker) from English: note the noun in use is almost always nyan cat / nyancat, so nyan is serving something of an adjectival role. It's fascinating the wash back and forth across morphologically unrelated languages.
- snvzz 7y ago>It seems that “Nyan” resulted from parsing it out of the sequential “nya”s. "nyanko" is a quite informal word to refer to a cat or kitten. Sorta like a child calling a cat a "meow-meow".
- jchw 7y agoIn that sense, is it actually being used as an adjective proper? This is amusing. I would’ve assumed it was just an accident, but it would be more amusing if it was both accidental and “sort of” grammatically correct.
- snvzz 7y agoNyanko is just a name. The usual name for cat is "neko". There's nothing grammatically wrong about using nyanko in place of neko.
- jchw 7y agoSorry, I meant the “nyan” in “nyanko”, being an adjective. But thinking about it more, the added “n” syllable probably has more to do with phonetics than language semantics. I studied only basic Japanese and now am pretty rusty.
- snvzz 7y agoOh, you thought it was an '-n' adjective. I get it now. As the onomatopoeia is actually nya or nyaa, and the meme is "nyancat", there could be something to this.
- Tempest1981 7y agoAnd a NYAN language setting - clever. I got NaN on iOS Safari: HAS NYANYEJAT DURANT NaN SEGONS Tweet Your Score You've NYANED for NaN seconds Tweet Your Score NYAN NYAN NYAN NaN NYAN Tweet Your Score
- Y_Y 7y agoI'm glad someone else is worried about this. For some reason Catalans are very special and love tlds. For example in BCN one is within the geometric catchment for: - .barcelona - .cat - .es - .eu I don't think any other settlement on earth is so blessed. For what it's worth, the registrar for .cat (Nominalia) isn't very strict
- jonp888 7y agoThe status of Catalonia is an enormously controversial issue. In 2017 the government of Catalonia declared independence from Spain, resulting in the Catalonian government being forcibly deposed by the Spanish government, which is opposed to Catalonian independence regardless of the wishes of the Catalonians. So it's not that surprising they would want their own, .scot is a similar situation.
- isostatic 7y agoExcept in 2014 Scotland's referendum was to remain in the UK. Scotland is a country too, so it's really quite different.
- skrebbel 7y agoScotland is only a "country" by the UK's totally weird definition of the word. It's not that different from Niedersachsen or Alabama or, indeed, Catalonia in that it has its own parliament etc but it's not independent. In the UK (and in pro football, somehow), "country" appears to mean "either a member of the UN or a federal state of the UK"
- jsty 7y agoIf it is a weird definition, it's a well-recognised one. Take the second sentence of the relevant Wikipedia page: "A country may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
- tareqak 7y agoSo, a website has to have Catalan content in order to be eligible to use .cat? Couldn't someone just hire translators and/or make friends with Catalan-speaking people to translate some English content to Catalan.
- zamalek 7y agoI'm pretty sure that is exactly the goal of the rule.
- benatkin 7y agoI think they want the person who owns the domain to be Catalan, and since the Spanish government doesn't want Catalonia to be recognized as an independent place, the language used is a proxy for being from there. I think they might try and limit it to people who speak Catalan.
- rgoulter 7y ago> 420 Enhance Your Calm Ha, no way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes Unofficial Codes .... 420 Enhance Your Calm (Twitter) Returned by version 1 of the Twitter Search and Trends API when the client is being rate limited; versions 1.1 and later use the 429 Too Many Requests response code instead.[74]
- krenel 7y ago> Resta prohibit explícitament per la ICANN la utilització del domini .cat per a pàgines de gats (cat en anglès), llevat que siguin en català o tinguin a veure amb la cultura catalana. It's explicitly forbbiden by ICANN the use of .cat domain for pages about cats, unless are in catalan [language] or it has to do with catalan culture. [1] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat
- phalangion 7y agoPointed out by another user, but the site has a Catalan translation https://http.cat/?lang=cat https://http.cat/?lang=cat
- JaumeGreen 7y agoIt does have a link to the catalan version at the bottom.
- distantsounds 7y agoThis really isn't enforced. I have a .cat domain that is simply a picture of my cat and I've never had an issue. I think if you're running something more high-profile that drives a ton of content, that rule would come into play.
- badsectoracula 7y agoParty poopers :-P
- lemcoe9 7y agoI feel this is an appropriate place for a shameless plug about my website, http://ipkitten.com http://ipkitten.com. It offers valuable IPv4 information while also offering a kitten GIF. No ads, no tracking; just cats and IP addresses. Zero lines of Javascript.
- benatkin 7y agoThat's good. I've been using jsonip but I think I'll switch to yours, because it's still nice and minimal! It's good to have the geoip even though it's inaccurate. Right now geoip thinks I'm in Ft Lauderdale when I'm actually in Miami.
- andrenotgiant 7y agothat is an oddly appropriate shameless plug.
- Svip 7y agoIt doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"? Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.
- lemcoe9 7y agoPlease refresh and see what happens.
- Svip 7y agoThanks for the quick change. That's definitely better. Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense. Although, that being said, I am confident that Google would find "2000 Capital Region" correctly, no matter where I search from. (Can't really test it, since Google is clever enough to base the post code on where I'm searching from.)
- qatanah 7y agoCan we have dogs as well?
- jacobsimon 7y agoYou may! https://httpstatusdogs.com/ https://httpstatusdogs.com/
- wongarsu 7y agoI use it regularly as a quick way to look up status codes. If some log just shows http 418, typing http.cat/418 is the fastest way I've found to get the corresponding message.
- cortesoft 7y agoYeah, this is our go-to way of referencing status codes at work.
- a012 7y agoClicked 400 and got 500
- ivolimmen 7y agoThat's a free 100.
- lun4r 7y agoI got a status 500 error. With no cat :(
- roffel 7y agoI had the same! Missed opportunity.
- laurent123456 7y ago(2015) (and apparently the 11th time this is posted)
- danieka 7y agohttps://placekitten.com/ https://placekitten.com/ is a genuinely useful page for generating placeholder cat images on the fly. Invaluable when prototyping an interface.
- derivagral 7y agoIs there a ToS or anything for this, or is it "please don't fire huge traffic loads"?
- berbec 7y agoEven April Fool's codes! https://http.cat/418 https://http.cat/418
- athenot 7y agoI've found that one to have a useful purpose in a very specific situation, ie. an endpoint merged with another one and the behavior is sufficiently different that the service replying to the request is not what the requester had in mind. Yes versioning would have prevented that but in our setup, it was not possible.
- lucb1e 7y ago> the service replying to the request is not what the requester had in mind Sounds like a 400 bad request? If the service can't make heads or tails of it...
- hartator 7y agoha! We did a similar thing for our 404, 500, and empty pages: - https://serpapi.com/404.htm https://serpapi.com/404.htm - https://serpapi.com/500.html https://serpapi.com/500.html
- maxfurman 7y agoMy favorite HTTP status site is http://httpstatusrappers.com http://httpstatusrappers.com
- nonbirithm 7y agohttps://http.cat/451 https://http.cat/451 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons This one is brilliant, and has a cat too. The reference is acknowledged in the RFC also: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725#page-5 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725#page-5
- Aardwolf 7y agoI immediately looked for "418 I'm a teapot", and the expectations were fulfilled :)
- RivieraKid 7y agoI'm surprised that noise like this reached the HN homepage.
- ftl64 7y agoDog lover spotted