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Minecraft, pockets & editions
Minecraft is not Minecraft Pocket Edition. My son’s now into Minecraft. I set up a Docker-based server for him, & discovered that he was running Minecraft Windows 10 Edition. This uses the same API as Minecraft Pocket Edition, which is not the same as Notch‘s standard Java-based Minecraft. For this reason, my first attempt at…
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Brexit Day
If ever I wondered what being on the receiving end of nervous smugness was like, today I can wonder no more. Some exponents of the Leave campaign on Twitter have today furiously denied the fact that the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK because of the EU having more deficit.…
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Trust not ye dodgy CAs
Because I don’t follow security advisories religiously, & check my site certs only when I think I need to (i.e. a little time before they expire), I missed the near unanimous decision to distrust StartCom as a Certificate Authority. Instead, I found out by attempting to show a friend my evolution simulator. My recently updated…