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October 3

c a n.s i

I received a spam that contains a link to a subpage of http://c a n.s i. What does anyone know about this second-level domain? The top-level domain is Slovenia, but the domain appears to be a hatrack for spamvertised domains. If I do a Google search, I get an ad for its service in hanging domains off it, like bit.ly, and other than that, all of the hits have to do with Sacro-Iliac (SI) conditions. If I try to look at the advertisement for the domain, my anti-malware protection blocks my access and says that that domain is dangerous. I can and won't override. Maybe I have already learned as much as I want to learn about c a n.s i. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:24, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, well. Wikipedia has blacklisted it. So the fact that it is dangerous is as much as we need to know about it.

Robert McClenon (talk) 02:24, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

.si is the tld for Slovenia and there are lots of legit sites there, but it sounds like the one you found is not so legit. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:1598 (talk) 05:57, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The home page at http://can.si/ proclaims itself "The free & best URL shortener, tracking & cloaking — The best alternative to goo.gl / bit.ly & tinyurl". Wikipedia has blacklisted all url-shortening domains, also goo.gl and youtu.be, because otherwise they can be used to cloak any blacklisted domain. --Lambiam 22:20, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What does underclocking do?

Recently, I set the CPU clock speed of one of my laptops to 5% (I did this through the Power & Sleep settings because I somehow made the mistake of thinking that this would conserve energy), and then, when I tried to increase it, the computer started getting hot, making loud noises, and would not go back up to full speed. What exactly did all of that do to the laptop?173.185.94.69 (talk) 18:18, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]