Shadow

@ Shadow @lemmy.ca

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Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer

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Lemmy.ca's Main Community lemmy.ca

5d ago

Is making your own soap at home really worth it?
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Shadow @lemmy.ca 5d ago
Not really relevant but still relevant https://youtu.be/tK-cKWSPBBs

6d ago

Write for people

I've found success in telling Claude to keep it brief and to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English

7d ago

Why would anyone decide to use USENET these days?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 7d ago

They rely on safe harbor provisions within the dmca. Its like how your isp can't be sued for you downloading warez, usenet providers just provide access to the network and look the other way at what goes over it.

7d ago

Why would anyone decide to use USENET these days?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 7d ago

Usenet just encrypts the connection from you to their server, they can see perfectly well what the data you download is. They aren't prosecuted because they claim ignorance and that they're just providing you network access, which is why usenet providers that specifically advertise for piracy have been shut down. This is also aided by usenet not advertising what you're downloading (unlike torrents), so it's hard to send a dmca claim.

See https://www.vitallaw.com/news/copyright-c-d-cal-perfect-10-failed-to-establish-that-usenet-service-provider-did-not-qualify-for-dmca-safe-harbor/ipm013b319a047bc91000b319d8d385ad169401 for example, whereas old usenet.com actually provided indexing too and got shut down for it https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/judge-throws-book-at-usenetcom-in-riaa-lawsuit/

(I'm a happy long term usenet provider too)

1w ago

Why would anyone decide to use USENET these days?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 1w ago

Purchasing and anonymous don't really go together.

1w ago

Spotify to introduce AI badge after fans make feelings 'clear'

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 1w ago

I made that mistake with Spotify, got a family plan years ago and hooked my sister + nephew + niece up. Now if I want to cancel it and they lose their playlists, they'll be all pissy.

1w ago

Give me your best 3 song playlist for waking up my teenager for school.

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 1w ago

System of a down - chop suey

1w ago

How do i discover federated Lemmy posts (from a dead/offline instance) location/addresses?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 1w ago

Not that I've ever seen, that would kinda be a waste of resources of the lemmy servers.

Federation is only one "level". The origin sends it to all the other instances, they don't relay it along.

2w ago

[AskLemmy Meta]: Should bot posts be banned in AskLemmy.world?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Definitely against. I immediately defederated the hosting instance from lemmy.ca when I saw that.

Context here - https://lemmy.almostadatacenter.social/post/77974

2w ago

TIL Black Cars Are Much More Likely Than White Cars to Be Involved in an Accident

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

I had the same thought. Australia doesn't require daytime running lights, so it's be interesting to see if there's data from Canada (where we require drl) to compare against.

2w ago

What was the last emergency situation you were in? What happened and what part did you play?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

When we went to belize, a dead diver had been pulled out the week before from the blue hole. It had been down there a couple years, hands and head long gone, but identified by the rented camera still attached to it.

When i went diving in Bali our dive lead was ex military, and would tell us stories of doing body recoveries where they'd surface and just immediately go to a hyperbaric chamber. That just seems asinine to me.

I've gone diving around 200 times, it's absolutely gorgeous and I'd recommend it to anyone, but it's not something you should take risks while doing.

2w ago

How do i discover federated Lemmy posts (from a dead/offline instance) location/addresses?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Just pop that url into the search of another lemmy instance. If it has a copy, it'll come up.

Ie: https://lemmy.ca/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemmings.world%2Fpost%2F41938713&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

2w ago

What was the last emergency situation you were in? What happened and what part did you play?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

It's been a long time, but last one was about 20 years ago. Me and my friend Danielle had just finished our open water scuba diving courses together, and went to do our first dive with a group from the dive shop - including one of our instructors who was leading it.

It was a shore dive, we all walk in in our drysuits and I stupidly drop my mask and lose it in the silty water. Danielle starts swimming around looking for it, while most of us are chatting above the surface. We're in about 3' of water at this point on the beach, I'm literally standing up next to her, so danger is the last thing on my mind.

Suddenly someone asks me if Danielle is ok, I turn around just as she stops moving, grab her by the bcd and pull her up. She's blue and not breathing. The instructor is already on his way over, gives her some rescue breaths and she immediately comes back. We pull her to the shore and she's coughing up water, paramedics roll up shortly after and take her to the hospital just in case.

She has gotten air stuck in the boots of her dry suit and was stuck inverted. Instead of doing the recovery roll we were trained, or inflating her bcd, she panicked and as a result somehow lost her mouth piece.

She never dived in cold water again, although we did go to belize several months later to do a bunch of diving. I kept up the cold water diving.

It really made me appreciate how panicking can completely fuck you over, and made me a very safety conscious diver. I always stay close to my buddy and keep a close eye on them.

2w ago

OPNsense on top of Proxmox - Part 2

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

I'd also suggest throwing more cores at it than you think it needs, and increasing the nic buffer sizes. This is what finally solved the random 1-2 minute outages I was seeing on lemmy.ca, turns out we were somehow saturating the queues even at relatively low traffic levels. (these issues might be specific to our model nic)

Finally, make sure hardware offloading is disabled, and your CPU type is set to host.

2w ago

Party on, dudes!

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Except Stargate, where oddly every planet looks like the forests near Vancouver

2w ago

What does "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." mean exactly?

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Lol wat. Deleting old posts is bad manners in my opinion, and the db cost is negligible.

3w ago

Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 3w ago

I thought the % underneath was the number of users who couldn't see that instance, but I guess it's % of the active fediverse users?

3w ago

Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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Shadow @lemmy.ca 3w ago

Hmm, piefed.ca is supposed to follow the lemmy.ca defed list, I'd expect both to be the same.

Use of colors for software is confusing, since I expected it to be based on the % or something. A legend would be clutch for those of us that look at pictures and get confused, then read the text...