Pxtl
- 🌇 #HamOnt,🍁
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- 🐙🐱https://github.com/Pxtl
- formerly https://sh.itjust.works/u/Pxtl but it doesn’t.
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Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Ottawa faces calls to send essential fuel to Cuba as US widens its oil blockadeEnglish
243·9 days agoRead the room
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Games@sh.itjust.works•I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)English
2·9 days agodeleted by creator
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Ford tells students to not pick 'basket-weaving courses' in wake of OSAP cutsEnglish
31·10 days agoHey, can’t I just get a job the same way that Doug Ford did? BTW, what undergrad degree did he get?
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full AccessEnglish
44·18 days agoI love how photo-based age verification scanning is the worst of both worlds - it destroys your anonymity, but not in a way that makes it easier to run a community where you can ban a person by their digital ID since they can just make a new one with the same face since facial recognition is too crude for that.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode EnabledEnglish
1·21 days agoAh, my bad. I looked it up and while Android does have an analog to what iOS calls “lockdown”, Android uses different terminology for it, since “Lockdown” is, as you said, lock the lockscreen to be password/pin-only (which would still be a reasonable approach before being forced to turn over your phone to somebody since those are things that are harder to be compelled to provide).
Android’s version of iOS “Lockdown” is called “Advanced Protection Mode”.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode EnabledEnglish
1·21 days agoI’d forgotten because the first thing I did when that rolled out was revert it so long-press on the power button was the power menu. IIRC the new default is like long-press-power-and-volume-down or some garbage like that to show the power menu.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode EnabledEnglish
122·22 days agoAndroid phones have lockdown mode too. Hold the power button to show the shutdown menu and click lockdown.

Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?English
44·24 days agoEventually somebody is going to use textbots to DDOS wikipedia with subtle propaganda (if they’re not already doing that) and it will be impossible to protect without completely locking it down so that only established users can edit.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high schoolEnglish
1·3 months agoLaws are only real if they’re enforced.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Games@sh.itjust.works•Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worseEnglish
421·3 months agoThe very idea of a user-generated content free-to-play MMO for children with whack-a-mole moderation is totally bananas. Even good whack-a-mole moderation would be a bananas design.
I’m okay with little kids online gaming, but it needs to be in content that has been approved by a responsible adult in a setting where either adults are actively supervising or the children are on a server where we know everybody who’s in there.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•One of Silicon Valley's most prominent techbros is giving lectures on the Antichrist -- and he thinks it's the PopeEnglish
20·3 months agoIsn’t the antichrist supposed to be a charismatic leader?
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeksEnglish
1·3 months agoGeforce 3060, and yes. Sometimes my primary screen gets locked at my secondary screen’s framerate. The whole OS is especially wonky after wake from sleep, I often have to restart Firefox and Cinnamon after wake. WebGL things in Firefox are especially finicky. The panel-applet-spice things are horrendously single-threaded, some of lock the whole UI regularly.
I’m going to try some other Debian-based OS in the hopes that this is just Mint+Cinnamon and not the state-of-the-art.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeksEnglish
31·3 months agoI tried Mint and it’s just too buggy to use.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’EntremontEnglish
71·4 months agoIt’s almost like letting freaks take over your political movement can drive away normal people.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•You're going to make up the funding shortfall, right?English
2·4 months agoA pleasant reversal from the usual situation. Like, all the regulations that sandbag against housing are municipal, which can only be overridden by the provinces.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
worldnews@sh.itjust.works•Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta ThunbergEnglish
20·4 months agoShe’s been a public figure for more than her whole adult life. If she were a habitual liar it’d already have come up.
Pxtl@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?English
10·4 months agoVarious detectors you use when trying to debug a problem – ethernet testers, decibel meter, battery discharge tester, thermal camera, wifi and cellular signal analyzers, air quality testers, radon detectors (edit: hah of course this is what article is about), stud finders, etc.
Overly-specific tools – ethernet crimpers, obscure driver bits.
Lemmy blocking is worthless anyways it’s just a mute





















This is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government-provided digital ID. We could have social media that allows us to know who is verified as a real Canadian human being and who is a truly-anonymous account.
But instead we’re going to get “give your photos to Peter Thiel”, which is a tech that doesn’t solve the problem of anonymous disinfo-peddlers with shadowy backing, but does give the evilest people in the world a way to track you.
Especially since its’ pretty easy to just flag an account on Microsoft or Google as a child account. If they really wanted to just detect children online so that sites can properly enforce adult-only rules, the browser could send that as a header flag.