• Endless Sky -- open-source space game. I actually contributed to it back in the day; a date format option and a full-blown storyline about an author. Unfortunately the storyline is in development hell cause I lost motivation to work on it.
• OpenTTD -- really awesome, with NewGRFs and mods you can have a somewhat "realistic" rail experience (as in, using actual real-life trains. Obviously a pixel game isn't the most "realistic" with graphics)
• Mindustry
• Pioneer Space Sim

I don't have anything hosted just yet, but when I do, I'll look into a reverse proxy

And I don't check my email every single day. Scary.

Nitter ended up getting their domain back though.. However, the good ending doesn't always happen.

Thankfully I don't have anything "controversial" on my website.

That's crazy. 90% of views from a single person. How often does this happen usually?

Just basic information about myself and maybe a thing or two I've done on the Internet.

Someday if I get the time or the server resources, I'd add subdomains to it to host other stuff, for example "lemmy.example.com", while "example.com" would just be the basic information, and probably a directory to all the other subdomain stuff.

Okay, doing more research; I now understand what the unintended consequences of the question were, so thank you for the explanation.

I understand why you feel that they are "phishing questions", but:

1. The question was using Katrina as an example to further convey what it was that I was asking about.
2. Someone replying to the question could have not provided a name at all; only their feeling about having the same name.
3. With eight billion people on Earth, there are bound to be hundreds of thousands of people with that name, making any form of tracing highly difficult and impractical.

The log says "admin", not "mod", so I don't know what to do now. Does Lemmy even have modmail?

Actually, you need to go build a time travel machine and recreate the Internet and all its infastructure from scratch if you want to have true ownership of your domain. Or you know, just reinvent the Internet in a premodern society or something, idk.

Were you able to take back your domain using Porkbun, or did you have to use a completely different one?

Yeah, I'm on the .ph top-level domain, one of the more expensive ones. I blame the price on the registrar, not Njalla.

Did Njalla keep the domain forever or did they not renew it such that you could simply go straight to the registrar to take it back?

Additionally, what did you do exactly with the domain that may have motivated Njalla to just.. do such a thing?

Not many results for Njalla there, just someone saying they have a few of them through Njalla but offering no thoughts of the service

If 10,000 people work one hour in one day, then that day still had 10,000 hours worked even if a day is only 24 hours. Same with CPUs, many of them run on more than just one core.

Pridyider, the Filipino movie about a haunted fridge. Haven't been able to find a copy of it in years unfortunately.

Curiosity, concern, and the hope that the person's still living a good life.

And you are not annoying me, don't worry.

Nothing really, all the rabbit holes I've went down are all in English or conlangs whose documentation is in English. And for search resources - all you really need is Google or DuckDuckGo, a couple hours, patience, and basic knowledge of OSINT

I'm not really interested in tracking you, lol.

You don't really meet the criteria - I already know from you replying to this thread and my comments, that you are still well and alive - and determining that is the main goal of an investigation. So it would be redundant.

Who knows, maybe the dictionary is wrong, but I guess it wouldn't be wrong to extend the meaning of usyoso. Yay for language evolution

That's just the act of lurking, it doesn't say anything about the feelings you get while lurking.

I am a Tagalog speaker too (but I had to look usyoso up in the dictionary lol)

I've gone on goose chases all over the internet and done "dormancy investigations" of sorts in ways similar to you (though I'm unsure how similar exactly). I have a wiki on my own computer where I store the findings of these investigations alongside other unrelated things.

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to develop roleplay contexts to understand people that make and seek out connections like this or various other ways.

What exactly do you mean? On my "dormancy investigations" I have a rule for myself where I only lurk, read, and dig - I do not try to contact the person, ever. Though before I set this rule for myself - I remember actually reaching out to one of them and got a positive reply but I probably got lucky on that one, not chancing things now.

I struggle most to understand boundaries that other people have. I try not to pry, [...]

Yup, I just try to dig through the Wayback Machine or what's left of the website, to me, trying to contact the person or asking anyone who may be related to the person who the person is, is "prying".

And I suppose that I just have a nostalgia of the Internet that was. The internet of the early 2000s. I was not alive when the 2000s Internet was at its peak; well not old enough to know how to use a computer let alone even read. So.... I don't really know what else I can say.

I'm a conlanger actually, the dormant person feeling gets its own word in Thiguka (patalara) and Kenahari (second conlang so far).

Awesome, it's a shame though I'm in 100+ Discord servers lmao

What is the "Cyber Reception Room" you linked?

I'm really big on indie musicians too, can relate. One indie musician I found had their last release in March 2024. YouTube put one of their in my feed from 8 years ago (which made me investigate). I told another indie musician I know about the person and it turns out that they have cancer. They are still alive and battling it, and I really hope they get better soon.

It's really cool! Though I just do a backup both to my external HDD with rsync and Steam Cloud

That one time back, from so long ago, when I was less techy than 2024 me, when everytime I opened my old Android phone, the browser would open up a Thai porn site. I went to the applications list on that old phone, and found an empty app with no icon and uninstalled it, and it stopped happening.

Why the hell would one do that for THREE documents? I'd be exfiltrating everything out of there if I were them, if not for that Russian guy's trial, at least for my curiosity and reading pleasure!

Whoever wrote that malware is definitely going to Brazil.

Were you able to find car parking in Harvard Yard?

TLDR: My optimistic view of what human culture could be like is summed up pretty well by the Orion's Arm project.

I am familiar with the Orion's Arm universe, a hard sci-fi transhumanist worldbuilding project.. shall I recommend you take a trip through the Wormhole Nexus to the Sephirotic Empires where you're ruled by benevolent S6 transapient dictators (supercharged AGI)? Because you'll see a fuck ton of entities playing around like retirees. You'll see "aliens" which actually are just extremely genetically modified humans. In fact, here (https://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b177d3ef3b1) is their "Culture and Society" page, which sums up a lot of my optimistic OA-based beliefs in a human culture.

Oh, and most Terragens (humans + any life that can trace its origin back to Earth) live in orbit. Story goes that we made an AI system that decided we humans were bad for the environment and then told us to get the fuck off Earth (Great Expulsion).

https://orionsarm.com

My (hopeless) attempt at explaining some of the terms:

• Wormhole nexus - OA's primary method of "faster than light" travel. You never go faster than light, but rather some transapient figured out how to fold spacetime and now you have a hole where you can throw your ships in and have them on the other side.
• Transapient - Post-singularity entites that are orders of magnitude smarter than us. An ant can't fully understand a human. It is incapable of understanding what Lemmy is, what a job is, what the Fediverse is. Just as an ant can't fully understand us, humans can't fully understand transapients. Oh and transapients come in 6 levels. We're all S0 on the scale. S6 are pretty much gods.

So... if I have the money to fly down to Fort Scott do I get to ramble on for 3 hours about how their city council has been such a great source of white noise, generating additional white noise for me in the process that I can use once I return to Manila?

Well, Spokane enforces a 2 minute limit. What city do you recommend I listen to if I want to hear longer open forum stories?

EDIT: Oh wait, I replied from the inbox, nevermind. Fort Scott, Kansas is definitely the place.

So "background ambience" would be a better term to describe the city council meetings?

Interesting. It looks quite dull from the thumbnails indeed. At the moment my current source of city council white noise is Spokane, Washington - the stories that people tell during open forum are entertaining and I sometimes hate how an amazing story gets cut off by the 2-minute limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise#Work_environment

Just background noise to listen to, because sometimes you just don't like silence.

Yeah, but the city council meeting I'm listening to is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean (Filipino here), so I couldn't do anything even if I wanted to. And given the geographical distance, the impact on my day-to-day life is.. zero.

But still, the stories I hear during the meetings are entertaining and they really do help me understand America just that little bit more. Curiosity for the win!

When I set dark mode in an app, the top of the window would remain light, in XFCE. But in early January 2024, I realized it was because XFCE had a theme setting in both Appearance and Window Manager, and they were conflicting with each other. I ignored it for quite a while but now I'm happy with my full dark mode computer

Didn't we use copies of that book to alleviate the toilet paper shortages back in the day?

You don't get the right to make decisions about other people's pornography viewing habits.

This is coming from someone who doesn't consume the material, but still believes in the right to do so for other people, despite not exercising it.