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Shadow Shadow @lemmy.ca

Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer

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Today I learned female bees have pollen baskets on their hind legs

The bees love my garden but I'd never noticed these orange things on any of them before. I thought it might be a parasite but nope!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_basket

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Self-driving pods to offer mobility autonomy at Vancouver International Airport
  • Neat but kinda reminds me of a cat on a Roomba.

  • PC Freezes if I don't have a game running
  • Have you reset your bios back to defaults and made sure you're on the latest?

    Sounds like something to do with the power states or clock boost.

  • ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ To Tear Up The World With $360M Global Opening, Restoring Marvel Cinematic Universe Glory – Box Office Preview
  • Just got back from seeing it, best of the 3 IMHO.

    Took tons of shots at the shitty quality of the mcu.

  • Is anyone else like this?
  • Well yeah, how else do you learn skills? You're not gonna be good at something if you don't push your boundaries.

  • Trump’s promotion of an image of strength after assassination attempt borrows from authoritarian playbook.
  • Like shit, if someone tried to kill me and failed then I'd probably raise my fist in defiance too.

  • First bash script, is there anyway to improve the execution speed ?
  • This is probably the answer.

    Op, it's generally not native bash that's slow, it's the overhead of calling a fresh copy of exiftool each time. Especially if it's written in Perl, where it needs to be freshly interpreted / compiled each time.

  • What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help
  • The internet was designed to route around failure. Taking down an isp upstream wouldn't generally impact internal routing, or routing between them if they're peering.

  • So um, about Ferengis having their lobes rubbed…
  • I joke that I'm giving my dog oomox when I rub his ears, it seems to have a similar effect to a ferengi.

  • Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
  • Uh, CBSA can't refuse you if you're a Canadian citizen for an American DUI. She definitely wasn't a full Canadian if she had to do anything.

    It's in our charter of Rights.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_6_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms#:~:text=Under the heading "Mobility Rights,remain in and leave Canada.

  • Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub
  • Yeah, pretty much everyone agrees that once something goes to git it lasts forever.

    The fact they call out that secret keys must be rotated if committed, makes me think they thought just deleting a commit was enough 🤦

  • Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker
  • They submitted a deep fake photo and never did a call.

    To prevent a repeat, KnowBe4 is advising its peers in the industry to consider interviewing prospective employees on a video call to ensure they’re real

  • Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker
  • Wait, they hired someone without even having a video call?

  • Only in Japan
  • I assume the bill is high because the guy "assaulted" the waitress.

    1 million yen is about $6500 usd

  • You were never qualified. You are corrupt, and you raped me in 1993 when I worked for you. So you run away, but you can not hide.
  • Did you know that if you click the little numbers in the little boxes, it takes you to the sources?

    Here, I'll even give you a paywall free link - https://archive.is/N3lyE

  • You were never qualified. You are corrupt, and you raped me in 1993 when I worked for you. So you run away, but you can not hide.
  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_sexual_assault_allegation

    Reade misrepresented herself and her life experiences on numerous occasions, including lying under oath and in court proceedings.

  • Is this image generated by AI?
  • I don't think so, I think she just didn't think about it when posting for the pic

    The hair + shadows all look convincing

  • Exciting News: Lemmy.ca is now managed by our new registered not-for-profit organization 'Fedecan' (+ resuming donations & gathering feedback)
  • Re: open collective, we looked at it but it seemed limited for Canadians. I liked that aspect of it too, so I'm working on a grafana dashboard for us to try and do something similar.

  • Microsoft releases recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike issue
  • Many admins aren't technical enough to automate, they're going to boot a recovery image and delete the file by hand everywhere. This will definitely save effort, plus is something you can give to non technical people.

  • CrowdStrike impact on aussie.zone?
  • Crowdstrike only impacted windows, nobody runs lemmy on windows.

  • Where's my cat?

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Lemmy.ca scheduled maintenance Saturday July 6th - Complete

    Hi everyone,

    We'll be undergoing maintenance on Saturday morning from about 11am - noon PST.

    We've been having some stability issues over the past few days that I've tracked down to database performance, so I'll be doing some tuning and also applying all our needed system updates at the same time.

    Cheers!

    Update: This is all done now!

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    cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Besties

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca

    We're now upgraded to 0.19.5

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca

    We're now upgraded to 0.19.4

    Sorry for the brief bits of downtime here and there, I snuck in a quick upgrade of us to the latest lemmy 0.19.4 now that a few bugs have been patched out.

    More details here! https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Pictrs upgrade - completed

    I'm in the process of upgrading us to the latest 0.19.4 release.

    https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

    You might see some brief downtime during the next hour or so, pictrs is currently upgrading its database.

    Edit: Holding off on lemmy as Blaze was nice enough to flag some new bugs - https://lemmy.ca/comment/9660430

    Edit: Pictrs upgrading taking longer than expected after the migration crashed, hopefully wrapped up soon!

    Finally Done! We're all ready for the new lemmy version now, maybe once a patch release comes out.

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    bc.ctvnews.ca Police recover 29 stolen vehicles in shipping containers at B.C. ports

    Two men from Metro Vancouver are facing more than a dozen charges each after police recovered 29 stolen vehicles found in shipping containers at British Columbia ports.

    Police recover 29 stolen vehicles in shipping containers at B.C. ports
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    InsanePeopleFacebook @lemmy.world Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Lawyer turned sovcit ordered to pay neighbor $30k

    Although it's not Facebook, I figured y'all would appreciate this

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    Me when I've been struggling with a challenge and win it first time after the patch

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    LPL The Replicant: Pocket Key Casting Perfected!

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    The $2BN Megaproject Under Vancouver (Broadway Subway Project)

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    Vancouver is in a ‘full-blown crisis’ for housing affordability: Report

    globalnews.ca Vancouver is in a ‘full-blown crisis’ for housing affordability: Report | Globalnews.ca

    "It is becoming more and more difficult with first-time homebuyers as prices rise here in Vancouver," realtor Mike Stewart told Global News.

    Vancouver is in a ‘full-blown crisis’ for housing affordability: Report  | Globalnews.ca
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    Today I learned @lemmy.ml Shadow @lemmy.ca

    TIL some cities (like NYC) pump nitrogen into their phone lines to keep water out.

    hackaday.com Why Is There Liquid Nitrogen On The Street Corner?

    Any NYC hackers may have noticed something a bit odd this summer while taking a walk… Giant tanks of the Liquid Nitrogen have been popping up around the city. There are hoses that go from the…

    Why Is There Liquid Nitrogen On The Street Corner?
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    YouTube blocks access to Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's request

    Here's the video referenced: https://youtu.be/ZSC4Bc8LHGM?si=etDbG0Sld2DMdOda

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    I've worn out the spot on my screen where the sync icon lives

    Ljdawson we need you now more than ever, you're our only hope!

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    Mlmym bug that allows for 302 redirect hijacking - Now fixed in v0.0.40

    github.com /link endpoint allows redirection to any arbitrary URL · Issue #101 · rystaf/mlmym

    On old.lemmy.ca we're seeing a significant number of requests from Google Bot to random sites: 66.249.72.233 - - [27/Feb/2024:21:49:30 -0800] "GET /link?url=https://moebelsachverstaendiger-ganz.de/...

    /link endpoint allows redirection to any arbitrary URL · Issue #101 · rystaf/mlmym

    Heads up for anyone running mlmym on their instance, your site is probably being used for google SEO manipulation: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/101

    If you're running an old version, update to v0.0.40!

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    Would you recommend a bread maker?

    Y'all have been tempting me with your declious looking bread. I realize a bread machine is going to make simple loafs and not the stuff that's usually posted here, but curious on thoughts if they're worth it?

    I'm low on time and lazy. I won't make bread if I have to whip out my KitchenAid and dough hook. Tossing some ingredients in a machine I can do though, plus it could make the dough for more complex things too if I do occasionally have the energy.

    Should I do it?

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    Trudeau announces $2B to support B.C. housing projects

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Scheduled maintenance on Sunday Feb 18th at 11am PST - Now complete

    Hello everyone!

    I'm going to be taking the server down on Sunday to apply system updates, as well as migrate us to running across multiple lemmy containers.

    Currently we do a nightly restart of lemmy / lemmy-ui at 2am resulting in a 2-3 minute outage (visible on our status page). This change will make those restarts transparent so I stop getting alerts on my phone.

    I'm current planning on starting this at 11am PST on Sunday Feb 18th and will probably take about 30 mins.

    Edit: All done! We've upgraded to postgres 16 as well.

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