Andrew Moore
@andrewmoore.ca
#SolutionsArchitect; Desktop, mobile and web #developer; #tech enthusiast
🔗 https://andrewmoore.ca
🎮 https://finewolf.gg
🔗 https://andrewmoore.ca
🎮 https://finewolf.gg
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Andrew Moore
@andrewmoore.ca
· Nov 14
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Information about Andrew Moore, a Solutions Architect from Montreal, Canada.
andrewmoore.ca
I'm a #SolutionsArchitect from #Montreal, #Canada, and I specialize in web application architecture. andrewmoore.ca/about/
In my off time, I occasionally stream #RetroGames on #Twitch. finewolf.gg
I'm also interested in #photography, visit andrewmoore.ca/photography/ for my portfolio. #SonyAlpha
In my off time, I occasionally stream #RetroGames on #Twitch. finewolf.gg
I'm also interested in #photography, visit andrewmoore.ca/photography/ for my portfolio. #SonyAlpha
The #ACCC announced they were suing #Microsoft due to their misleading bundling of Copilot into Microsoft 365 plans.
It's nice living in a country that actually cares about consumer rights.
www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...
It's nice living in a country that actually cares about consumer rights.
www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...
Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions
The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its US-based parent company Microsoft Corporation for allegedly misleading approximately 2.7 million Australian ...
www.accc.gov.au
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The #ACCC announced they were suing #Microsoft due to their misleading bundling of Copilot into Microsoft 365 plans.
It's nice living in a country that actually cares about consumer rights.
www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...
It's nice living in a country that actually cares about consumer rights.
www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...
My recent move meant that I had to update /etc/locale.conf on my machines. Easy enough:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
However, you'll have to rip my ISO 8601 formatted dates out of my cold, dead hands...
LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
However, you'll have to rip my ISO 8601 formatted dates out of my cold, dead hands...
LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My recent move meant that I had to update /etc/locale.conf on my machines. Easy enough:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
However, you'll have to rip my ISO 8601 formatted dates out of my cold, dead hands...
LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
However, you'll have to rip my ISO 8601 formatted dates out of my cold, dead hands...
LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8
TPG Telecom's IPv6 routing to @wikipedia.org has been broken for the past 2 weeks at least, with traffic being routed back and forth between Adelaide and Sydney.
Both my and @porcelainmai.bsky.social's mobile are unable to connect to Wikipedia.
Both my and @porcelainmai.bsky.social's mobile are unable to connect to Wikipedia.
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
TPG Telecom's IPv6 routing to @wikipedia.org has been broken for the past 2 weeks at least, with traffic being routed back and forth between Adelaide and Sydney.
Both my and @porcelainmai.bsky.social's mobile are unable to connect to Wikipedia.
Both my and @porcelainmai.bsky.social's mobile are unable to connect to Wikipedia.
I am loving #Yooka-Replaylee so far. @playtonicgames.com did an amazing job with this redo of the original.
If you are a #platformer / #collectathon fiend like I am, give this one a try.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
It runs beautifully on the Steam Deck and on desktop Linux.
If you are a #platformer / #collectathon fiend like I am, give this one a try.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
It runs beautifully on the Steam Deck and on desktop Linux.
Save 10% on Yooka-Replaylee on Steam
Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the colle...
store.steampowered.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am loving #Yooka-Replaylee so far. @playtonicgames.com did an amazing job with this redo of the original.
If you are a #platformer / #collectathon fiend like I am, give this one a try.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
It runs beautifully on the Steam Deck and on desktop Linux.
If you are a #platformer / #collectathon fiend like I am, give this one a try.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
It runs beautifully on the Steam Deck and on desktop Linux.
Reposted by Andrew Moore
I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
Microsoft is disabling the best local account workarounds
www.theverge.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...
I read articles like this one, and I'm glad I'm not a #Windows person.
Forcing an online account is unacceptable. #Microsoft needs your personal info to feed their AI machine, and I look forward to the bubble bursting for their leadership to get their comeuppance.
Forcing an online account is unacceptable. #Microsoft needs your personal info to feed their AI machine, and I look forward to the bubble bursting for their leadership to get their comeuppance.
Microsoft Account required: Windows 11 blocks even more online account bypasses
Microsoft is once again blocking the ability to bypass a Microsoft Account when setting up a Windows 11 PC for the first time.
www.windowscentral.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I read articles like this one, and I'm glad I'm not a #Windows person.
Forcing an online account is unacceptable. #Microsoft needs your personal info to feed their AI machine, and I look forward to the bubble bursting for their leadership to get their comeuppance.
Forcing an online account is unacceptable. #Microsoft needs your personal info to feed their AI machine, and I look forward to the bubble bursting for their leadership to get their comeuppance.
It has been a while since I sat down and took the time to write.
Here's a quick exploration of why #anti-cheat providers are now requiring players to enable #SecureBoot and their #TPM. Will this reduce cheating? What does it mean for us Linux folks?
andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/an...
#gaming
Here's a quick exploration of why #anti-cheat providers are now requiring players to enable #SecureBoot and their #TPM. Will this reduce cheating? What does it mean for us Linux folks?
andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/an...
#gaming
Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines
Anti-cheat engines are now requiring users to have Secure Boot and a fTPM enabled in order to play online multiplayer games. Will this decrease the amount of cheating, or is it a futile attempt at cur...
andrewmoore.ca
August 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It has been a while since I sat down and took the time to write.
Here's a quick exploration of why #anti-cheat providers are now requiring players to enable #SecureBoot and their #TPM. Will this reduce cheating? What does it mean for us Linux folks?
andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/an...
#gaming
Here's a quick exploration of why #anti-cheat providers are now requiring players to enable #SecureBoot and their #TPM. Will this reduce cheating? What does it mean for us Linux folks?
andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/an...
#gaming
What's frustrating about moving countries is not the visa process, it's the hoops Steam and Nintendo make you go through to simply switch regions. It's truly infuriating and kafkaesque.
July 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What's frustrating about moving countries is not the visa process, it's the hoops Steam and Nintendo make you go through to simply switch regions. It's truly infuriating and kafkaesque.
Having finished chapter 1 last weekend, I now have a #selaco shaped void that will only be fixed when chapter 2 comes out later.
@selaco.bsky.social , absolutely awesome game. It was a blast from A to Z. Perfect blend of action and exploration.
@selaco.bsky.social , absolutely awesome game. It was a blast from A to Z. Perfect blend of action and exploration.
June 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Having finished chapter 1 last weekend, I now have a #selaco shaped void that will only be fixed when chapter 2 comes out later.
@selaco.bsky.social , absolutely awesome game. It was a blast from A to Z. Perfect blend of action and exploration.
@selaco.bsky.social , absolutely awesome game. It was a blast from A to Z. Perfect blend of action and exploration.
If you live in #Europe, please sign the @stopkillinggames.bsky.social initiative.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/
Regardless if you game or not, it's important to have legislation to stop businesses from continuing the anti-consumer practices that are in place in the #gaming industry.
#EU #Games
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/
Regardless if you game or not, it's important to have legislation to stop businesses from continuing the anti-consumer practices that are in place in the #gaming industry.
#EU #Games
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
June 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you live in #Europe, please sign the @stopkillinggames.bsky.social initiative.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/
Regardless if you game or not, it's important to have legislation to stop businesses from continuing the anti-consumer practices that are in place in the #gaming industry.
#EU #Games
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/
Regardless if you game or not, it's important to have legislation to stop businesses from continuing the anti-consumer practices that are in place in the #gaming industry.
#EU #Games
Having just played through the demo of #Yooka-Replaylee on #Steam, I already have a feeling that it will be a much more well rounded game than its original iteration.
I love 3D #platformer #collectathons, and I'm very much excited for this release.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
I love 3D #platformer #collectathons, and I'm very much excited for this release.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
Yooka-Replaylee on Steam
Embark on an epic open-world 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! The search for Pagies starts anew in Yooka-Replaylee, the enhanced definitive version of the beloved indie dar...
store.steampowered.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Having just played through the demo of #Yooka-Replaylee on #Steam, I already have a feeling that it will be a much more well rounded game than its original iteration.
I love 3D #platformer #collectathons, and I'm very much excited for this release.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
I love 3D #platformer #collectathons, and I'm very much excited for this release.
store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/...
I really like the changes to KUrlNavigator (used in Dolphin for the navigation bar) in @kde.org Frameworks 6.12.
The new version clearly communicates intent, you can easily identify special folders by the icon, clickable zones are easy to identify. What a huge UX improvement!
The new version clearly communicates intent, you can easily identify special folders by the icon, clickable zones are easy to identify. What a huge UX improvement!
March 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I really like the changes to KUrlNavigator (used in Dolphin for the navigation bar) in @kde.org Frameworks 6.12.
The new version clearly communicates intent, you can easily identify special folders by the icon, clickable zones are easy to identify. What a huge UX improvement!
The new version clearly communicates intent, you can easily identify special folders by the icon, clickable zones are easy to identify. What a huge UX improvement!
Someone will have to explain to me why it seems like @jetbrains.com IDEs' seem to use a random number generator to decide what scaling to use when launching on KDE Wayland. It randomly decides between my configured scaling option (1.5x), 2x and 1x on launch.
It's infuriating.
It's infuriating.
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Someone will have to explain to me why it seems like @jetbrains.com IDEs' seem to use a random number generator to decide what scaling to use when launching on KDE Wayland. It randomly decides between my configured scaling option (1.5x), 2x and 1x on launch.
It's infuriating.
It's infuriating.
It's always fun to browse around people's #Linux rices on Reddit, but I just prefer plain old #KDE Breeze, with the Papirus icon theme, and a custom greeter widget that I build with Eww (ElKowar's Wacky Widgets). No fancy transparency, no fancy colors.
What does your #Linux desktop look like?
What does your #Linux desktop look like?
March 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you are a fan of space games, you really have to pick up @everspace.game . I'm having an absolute blast. What a great way to relax this evening.
FYI, it runs really well on handheld devices like the #SteamDeck, and lends itself well to both short and long play sessions.
FYI, it runs really well on handheld devices like the #SteamDeck, and lends itself well to both short and long play sessions.
February 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If you are a fan of space games, you really have to pick up @everspace.game . I'm having an absolute blast. What a great way to relax this evening.
FYI, it runs really well on handheld devices like the #SteamDeck, and lends itself well to both short and long play sessions.
FYI, it runs really well on handheld devices like the #SteamDeck, and lends itself well to both short and long play sessions.
I watched #CBC 's @ianhanomansing.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup. What an absolute disgrace. #CBC needs to make some serious changes to the editorial board of this show.
There is no justification to air a discussion about an annexation Canadians don't support. And O'Leary? Really?
Disgraceful.
There is no justification to air a discussion about an annexation Canadians don't support. And O'Leary? Really?
Disgraceful.
“Join CBC next Sunday when they discuss CHILD ABDUCTION: A CONVERSATION.
Sure it’s illegal and immoral, but join hosts as they ignore that and discuss the pros and cons of abduction in a stimulating intellectual conversation.”
Obviously /sarc. Shame on the CBC for normalizing an act of war.
Sure it’s illegal and immoral, but join hosts as they ignore that and discuss the pros and cons of abduction in a stimulating intellectual conversation.”
Obviously /sarc. Shame on the CBC for normalizing an act of war.
Join us Sunday across all CBC News platforms, 130 NPR stations and CSPAN for a very special live 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 call-in special. 51st STATE: A CROSS BORDER CONVERSATION hosted by Ian Hanomansing & Jeremy Hobson begins 4 p.m. ET
February 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I watched #CBC 's @ianhanomansing.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup. What an absolute disgrace. #CBC needs to make some serious changes to the editorial board of this show.
There is no justification to air a discussion about an annexation Canadians don't support. And O'Leary? Really?
Disgraceful.
There is no justification to air a discussion about an annexation Canadians don't support. And O'Leary? Really?
Disgraceful.
Reposted by Andrew Moore
Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Finished migrating from #openSUSE to #ArchLinux on 2 PCs.
systemd-boot is setup with Secure Boot with a custom entry for my seldomly used Windows install (with Bitlocker). Everything works as expected.
The only real sadness is that my pipewire config was not in chezmoi.
systemd-boot is setup with Secure Boot with a custom entry for my seldomly used Windows install (with Bitlocker). Everything works as expected.
The only real sadness is that my pipewire config was not in chezmoi.
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Finished migrating from #openSUSE to #ArchLinux on 2 PCs.
systemd-boot is setup with Secure Boot with a custom entry for my seldomly used Windows install (with Bitlocker). Everything works as expected.
The only real sadness is that my pipewire config was not in chezmoi.
systemd-boot is setup with Secure Boot with a custom entry for my seldomly used Windows install (with Bitlocker). Everything works as expected.
The only real sadness is that my pipewire config was not in chezmoi.
Maybe it's time to switch to #ArchLinux, BTW...
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Maybe it's time to switch to #ArchLinux, BTW...
I'm starting to be properly annoyed by #opensuse 's decision to only provide production branch Nvidia drivers in the repos. 550.x does not provide a good experience on Wayland.
Maybe it's time to go back to #Fedora KDE, even if the official repos are lacking core tools that I use (chezmoi).
Maybe it's time to go back to #Fedora KDE, even if the official repos are lacking core tools that I use (chezmoi).
January 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposted by Andrew Moore
Today @andrewmoore.ca is back on the show, this time to talk about Linux gaming, we recorded this a bit before CES so we speculate a bit about the Lenovo announcement but besides that it's a great watch
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hW...
Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tec...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hW...
Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tec...
#255 2025 Is The Year Of The Linux Gamer | Andrew Moore
YouTube video by Tech Over Tea
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today @andrewmoore.ca is back on the show, this time to talk about Linux gaming, we recorded this a bit before CES so we speculate a bit about the Lenovo announcement but besides that it's a great watch
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hW...
Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tec...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hW...
Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tec...
I'm definitely not built for 38°C weather. What a scorcher.
December 16, 2024 at 1:01 AM
I'm definitely not built for 38°C weather. What a scorcher.
Reposted by Andrew Moore
Reposted by Andrew Moore
Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal
#UnrealTournament #EpicGames #Unreal
#UnrealTournament #EpicGames #Unreal
Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal
Back in November, I reported on Epic Games giving their approval for Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament becoming completely free to download. Now, Epic Games have updated the official Unreal Tournament website to link to the OldUnreal community.
www.gamingonlinux.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal
#UnrealTournament #EpicGames #Unreal
#UnrealTournament #EpicGames #Unreal
I'm a #SolutionsArchitect from #Montreal, #Canada, and I specialize in web application architecture. andrewmoore.ca/about/
In my off time, I occasionally stream #RetroGames on #Twitch. finewolf.gg
I'm also interested in #photography, visit andrewmoore.ca/photography/ for my portfolio. #SonyAlpha
In my off time, I occasionally stream #RetroGames on #Twitch. finewolf.gg
I'm also interested in #photography, visit andrewmoore.ca/photography/ for my portfolio. #SonyAlpha
About
Information about Andrew Moore, a Solutions Architect from Montreal, Canada.
andrewmoore.ca
November 14, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I'm a #SolutionsArchitect from #Montreal, #Canada, and I specialize in web application architecture. andrewmoore.ca/about/
In my off time, I occasionally stream #RetroGames on #Twitch. finewolf.gg
I'm also interested in #photography, visit andrewmoore.ca/photography/ for my portfolio. #SonyAlpha
In my off time, I occasionally stream #RetroGames on #Twitch. finewolf.gg
I'm also interested in #photography, visit andrewmoore.ca/photography/ for my portfolio. #SonyAlpha