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The quest for the perfect registrar: from Gandi to Netim

Context Over the year I used 5 different registrar, I started by Namesilo (because of the cheap price), with OVH (because of the cheaper price on some TLD), then moved to Gandi (from Namesilo and OVH). I also used Namecheap (an awful registrar), Porkbun and Regery (because of the cheap price on one of the TLD I wanted on a domain I don’t use for now). Gandi has been my main registrar for years for multiples reasons: great UI, great ethic, France based company....

August 14, 2023 · 6 min · TheFrenchGhosty

Ethics, morality and good or: the story of my life

Context This blog post is based on a discussion that took place on Matrix. This discussion was about humanity’s ethics and morality, and the fact that humanity as a whole is screwed because it wont change its ways, and that morality, as a whole, isn’t important to most humans. To quote someone who participated in this discussion: “you can’t expect miracles […] where humanity in general is at least flawed and at most malicious”....

July 1, 2023 · 3 min · TheFrenchGhosty

I'm Not Invidious

On June 8, 2023 Invidious received an e-mail from Google/YouTube to ask the project to be stopped. Even though this e-mail is invalid from the start (since Invidious doesn’t use any part of the YouTube API and doesn’t do anything illegal), some people people asked me why I’m not stopping my work on Invidious, so here’s the explanation: The e-mail is addressed “To Whom It May Concern”, the reality is that it doesn’t “concern” me....

June 9, 2023 · 2 min · TheFrenchGhosty

I finally completed the original Doom games

I have been for some weeks now, playing the original Doom games. I have now completed Doom (1993) and Doom 2 (1994) (this is the first time I finished them, I did play them before, but never played them in their entirety), and I now started playing Final Doom (1996) (I started with “TNT - Evilution” because it’s the recommended one to start with) and it’s sadly not as good....

May 4, 2023 · 4 min · TheFrenchGhosty

Hello World

Hello World!

May 4, 2023 · 1 min · TheFrenchGhosty