A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories.
I still use a bloated version of vim for my day job, since it involves huge react+ts apps. But i slowly build up a clean vimrc while writting my pet projects
I've experienced the same thing: a YouTube channel deleted without any explanation (the email from Google mentioned spam, even though I filmed all the videos myself), Facebook preventing me from sharing posts from a website (without any explanation), and of course, domain names that get deindexed from Google without any reason (no message in Google Search Console).
I believe we've reached a point where any activity on the web can vanish overnight due to an AI or an algorithm making decisions based on obscure criteria.
I mean at least those are walled garden platforms where this sort of thing we've come to expect. An independent website as big as itch.io going down because of a bogus complaint is a big surprise
That's what I thought. Last week, two of my domains were frozen by the TLD owner without notice, and they'd take them offline altogether in 7 days if I didn't supply some paperwork to my registrar
I've had these domains for ten years, now all of a sudden this is super urgent and if I'm on holiday that'd be a real shame I guess
So I contact the registrar and a link to the relevant legislation was sufficient to send them a perfectly agreeably censored version of my identity document (removing just irrelevant information they can't use or verify anyway), but apparently all they do is forward it to support@afnic.fr and not actually mark the domain holder as verified. So AFNIC, predictably, rejects it because GDPR doesn't exist in France
I saw no other choice but to send everything into AFNIC's email inbox / support system, which famously never get leaked and they assured me was "highly" secured when I asked to at least remove it after verification
With just 7 days' notice and half of that going to the distraction of a registrar, there's also no way to figure out what's even going on or have any sort of conversation. They hold all the cards and you jump when they say hop
I'm considering my options for any TLDs owned by AFNIC... evidently .io isn't better, but how to know who is
I am; I can't buy <firstname>.<anything> because it's a municipality or something in France and so I can't have the domain name for one of their overseas islands like Pierre et Miquelon (.pm). My registrar gave a refund for that one after the registration failed
But that's not the case for the domains AFNIC did grant. They registered successfully and I can still use them, also after this verification sham, AFNIC just insisted that I confirm immediately that I e.g. live where I said I live over ten years ago
I'm well aware that GDPR exists in France btw, but AFNIC is not — or at least has a different interpretation of what "not processing data unnecessarily" and "treating racial, biometric, and gender data as extra sensitive" means (they insisted I send all of these categories over plain email to a helpdesk system; I tried giving them an https link to a .jpg on the domain in question instead, but that was rejected with a "please attach to the email")
Rogue is a very cool game, but what get me into the genre is Angband and Nethack.
I played them with ascci tiles on my computer at the french university in 2002-2004 and my classmates where all playing Warcraft 3, Diablo or Call of Duty and they where very confused to see my little games!
I think that ascii characters are a good interface for this kind of game because the brain has to work to imagine the game which makes the memories of games more memorable.
I still play Nethack some times and I must try Brogue. I never had the time to get into Dwarf Fortress.
I also have a domain that is blocked buy Google.
There is nothing you can do and the only solution for me has been to:
1) change the domain name
2) change the content (text and images) of the pages
And, even after that, the recovery has been really slow...
I think you can create a new Google account for a new website and/or entity. That is why you can have a google business account and a personnal one.
Google (the search engine) has a market share of over 85% worldwide. [0]
Google therefore controls what can be found on the Internet for 85% of search engine users. Recent updates, or Core Updates, have demonstrated how easy it is for Google to put businesses out of business by removing their visibility. [1]
It seems to me that this is a problem.
Ditto for Chrome, which has +60% market share [2]. A failed or deliberate update could make a website inaccessible to 60% of the population.
There are billions of Web browser users and, from a fast Google search, 1.1 billion Web sites, still a large number if count only the ones that still have traffic.
So, billions of listeners and many millions of talkers. Without good, stable, universal standards, we'd have the biggest "Tower of Babel" problem in history.
Hypothetical examples:
(1) Maybe Company A wants to change the standards so that Web sites will have to revise their code. Hmm!!! Many millions of Web site owners will say "no way". Company A just left the party.
(2) Web site B wants to change their Web site so that only certain Web browsers will be able to use that site. Hmm!!! Site B won't get much traffic. Even if that site is Google -- people will use Bing, etc.
(3) Maybe Google announces that as of July 1, 2025 the Google search engine Web site will work only with Google's latest Chrome Web browser. Hmm .... There are billions of people who will want a search engine that works with the old, standard Web browser they already have -- "billions of people"!! Sounds like, with Bing, Microsoft's stock just doubled! And July Google's searches per day fell by 50+%.
E.g., I still like Windows 7 Professional. Occasionally I run Microsoft's Web browser Edge, and when I do there is a message that Windows 7 won't get updates for Edge and I should convert to Windows 10/11. I don't really want an update to Edge -- what I have does work; I don't like it; occasionally I use it to check some issues. Hmm!!!!
Microsoft, one of your most important business assets is that old applications will still run on the latest versions of Windows. So, I run Kedit, Object Rexx, Firefox, VLC media player, PhotoDraw, Media Player, PhotoViewer, Sketchup, Office 20??, IBM's OSL (Optimization Subroutine Library and a certain Watcom Fortran compiler), LINPACK, etc., .NET 3??, and I do not want to lose use of any of those old programs.
(4) Some company tries to have all the Internet ads flowing through their software, servers, etc. Hmm!! Sites have a file ads.txt that usually shows one heck of a long list of Internet ad brokers. Not easy for one company to dominate the ad market or even just the Web site ad market.
