Pxtl
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca
- 🌇 #HamOnt,🍁
- ✍Pxtl.ca
- 🦣 mastodon.social/@Pxtl
- 🐙🐱github.com/Pxtl
- formerly sh.itjust.works/u/Pxtl but it doesn’t.
- Comment on Recommendations for a good .ca domain host? 4 months ago:
in the end I went with CanSpace as registrar, and I’m using CloudFlare to actually run the nameservers.
The transfer was kind of a PITA because since the domain transferred from Google to Squarespace to Canspace to then being hosted on CF’s nameservers (but still on Canspace) the DNSSEC meant that CF couldn’t actually get it connected until like 48 hours later. Was quite worried that I’d screwed up somewhere.
- Comment on Recommendations for a good .ca domain host? 4 months ago:
in the end I went with CanSpace as registrar, and I’m using CloudFlare to actually run the nameservers.
The transfer was kind of a PITA because since the domain transferred from Google to Squarespace to Canspace to then being hosted on CF’s nameservers (but still on Canspace) the DNSSEC meant that CF couldn’t actually get it connected until like 48 hours later. Was quite worried that I’d screwed up somewhere.
- Submitted 4 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World 4 months ago:
And a train can even be greener than his silly cars with direct electrification via 3rd rail or overhead catenary.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
Except there isn’t much of a Google stealing their thunder. Bing isn’t better. DDG isn’t better.
- Comment on DMCA Notice Targeting ‘Bypass Paywalls Clean’ Isn’t The Thing to Get Angry About 7 months ago:
I have a simple opinion on paywall bypassers:
If it’s possible to bypass the paywall, that means there’s already a class of unauthenticated clients you’re allowing to see it. I have no interest in complying with whatever infrastructure you use to implement this discrimination.
Implementing a true hard paywall is trivial software. The only reason bypassing is possible is because they’re trying to have their cake and eat it too by allowing (eg) search engines to see it unauthenticated.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
The secret trick here: nobody will make a new username and password - nor should they. They’ll only log in if they have a convenient login with Google/FB/MS button. Which gives Google premium position in tracking.
- Comment on Rollin' Rascal Kickstarter Launch Trailer 9 months ago:
God damn how is it that Sega has never released a Sonic Adventure-style game with that kind of online multiplayer? It’s so freaking obvious and yet we’ve never seen it.
Some of the gameplay mechanics look a bit… unnecessary? Like riding on vehicles, at least at speed. And I’ve always thought the Sonic Adventure rail grinding was tedious. But still overall it looks like a fun adaptation of the 3D sonic gameplay albeit with a slightly dated-looking art style.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
Give me back my vertical side-docked taskbar or STFU.
No, I don’t want to deal with Explorer Patcher.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
As a software developer: MS has been 100X better to work with under Nadella. He may not know what to do with the operating system side of things, but the .NET/Azure/etc side has never been healthier.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
Yes, many many many years ago. Beyond Earth is the palest of pale imitation.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
Civ Beyond Earth has the neat approach that it replaces the old “build a spaceship to alpha Centauri” with three different technological endings each with different moral implications. The game is about human transcendence so any ending is going to be about changing humanity.
The problem is that the game itself is not one of the better entries in the Civ series otherwise.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
Ahh, you know, it’s about the convenience of not having to juggle another device. I still have an old Galaxy Tab kicking around the house that plays all that stuff pretty well, but it’s not the same as being able to pull it out of my pocket on the bus.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
I’m so annoyed that all my 32-bit Humble APKs don’t run on my Pixel.
Also, would it kill them to rename their .zips to .apks before I download? I know the Humble .apks are basically abandonware but at least rename the files for Pete’s sake!
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
I just wish Google would release some kind of 32-bit Android 4.4 sandboxed compatibility layer for old games. Android 4.4 was the standard Android version for a super long time for a zillion devices, and I’d bet 99% of the dead .APKs out there would run on that version.
Give me a tool with a crapload of slow, clumsy emulation wrappers covered in tedious config options and a launcher any time I want to run an app through this compatibility layer and let me play Amazing Alex again.
- Comment on A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant 10 months ago:
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
Honestly, as somebody who really loved the early era of Android gaming, I’m really disappointed how ephemeral it all was between the Play Store delistings and the absolutely atrocious approach to backwards compatibility in the Android OS.
- Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Take 90% of Artist Jobs on Animated Films In Just Three Years 10 months ago:
How did we end up in a future where robots create the art and tell the stories while I still have to fold my own laundry?
- Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 10 months ago:
Even Twitter agrees, NFT stands for No Fuckin’ Thanks.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Put some dang standard labels on the function keys.
F1 = Help F2 = Rename F3 = Search F4 = Close F5 = Refresh F6-F10 = Decorative F11 = Full screen F12 = Goto definition
- Comment on World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant To Be Built In Saudi Arabia 10 months ago:
Surprising, I thought thermal solar power was going the way of the dodo.
- Comment on World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant To Be Built In Saudi Arabia 10 months ago:
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that Forbes doesn’t know anything about green energy.
- Comment on Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters | FTC says the company's 'reckless use' of AI humiliated customers 11 months ago:
Nobody could have predicted this! :P
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
If it becomes a problem, the fediverse can cut the bridge when they need to. No sense doing it pre-emptively.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Star. Learning. To. Read.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
Would email be better if you couldn’t send/receive emails from people with Gmail accounts?
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
“everyone who disagrees with me is a chud”
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
This is like saying “my email provider should block all emails from Gmail”.
And they can hoover your data right now. Like, you think bots aren’t spidering the site already? It’s a public website.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
a lot of folks here naively think Meta will for some reason handle things more ethically.
Yeah it’s way easier to win arguments when you make up your opponent’s position in your mind
Nobody thinks Meta will be ethical.
We just think federation will be good for the Fediverse regardless.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
ITT:
“Nobody understands fedipact, Jabber, activitypub, Ruby, embrace/extend/extinguish, mastodon, lemmy, Java, federation, Kubernetes, XMPP, Docker, architecture, carburetors, Ikebana, midwifery, Filipino stickfighting, Zoroastrianism, hegelian philosophy, or XML but me, and therefore you’re all morons with nothing to contribute to this conversation”.
