GameGod

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[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It shows how effective the whole "Albertan independence" campaign by US interlocuters is - it's a lose-lose for Canada either way because the reputational damage it will do to Alberta's economy. And all you need to do this kind of shit is some analysts, a Facebook troll farm, and some weak politicians.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw this last night and it was pretty good! Great performances by great actors, interesting themes, good sets, good pacing. Just a great horror film all around. A24 staffed the team with veteran horror producers and gave Kane Parsons everything he needed to succeed with this film, and he sure did. Really pleased to see the success this movie is getting.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Samurai Showdown is a decent fighter

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've gotta go see this. The only thing I saw from Curry Barker before was his Milk and Serial 1 hr movie he released for free on YouTube, which is awesome, so I was stoked when I saw he directed Obsession!

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I used pfSense for years and switched to OpenWRT. I highly recommend OpenWRT. pfSense is kinda trash IMHO. I tried to set up traffic shaping, so I could play games while my roommate was watching Netflix, and it just doesn't work as advertised. I tried like 20 different configurations for the traffic shaping, following all the documentation, guides, countless forum threads, etc, and none of it worked properly when you actually test it. At the end of the day, I concluded that nobody understands how to configure traffic shaping on it and even the developers didn't realize it was broken.

OpenWRT, on the other hand, just works better out of the box, and has the right level of customizability for home use. It has a way better ecosystem around it where you can download extra packages with GUIs... it's just much nicer to use, and doesn't have the QA problems I had with pfSense.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

The situation kinda sucks but it is what it is. Basically, we've got private delivery firms with non-unionized employees and gig workers taking up the more lucrative package delivery business, with the crappy money-losing mail business going to Canada Post. Uniuni, Dragonfly, and Intelcom are replacing Canada Post. But Canada Post's union shot themselves in the foot by going on strike multiple times, for long enough that businesses switched away from using them because they're seen as unreliable now.

The gig worker model seems to be more efficient and clearly the investors of these companies agree, so I don't see any economic force that's going to stop things from continue in the direction that they are. There is still competition here though between these companies for small parcel delivery, so it's keeping shipping prices down.

P.S. this is also the model for private healthcare in Ontario that they're attempting - farm out the lucrative procedures to private clinics, with the expensive and risky treatments being done in public hospitals. So watch for that...

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I have some bad news for you. Like 90% of stories are planted and fed to journalists as part of PR campaigns.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

I'm confident that ICE and other US law enforcement agencies already have access to it. There is no presumption of privacy on anything you enter into any cloud-based LLM like ChatGPT, or even any search engine.

The consequences are already there and have been for like 15 years.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I think this should piss off a lot of people. Instead of doing something, they opted to do nothing, and now they're exploiting the tragedy as a PR opportunity. They're trying to shape their public image as an all-powerful arbiter. Worship the AI, or they will allow death to come to you and your family.

Or perhaps this is all just rage bait, to get us talking about this piece of shit company, to postpone the inevitable bursting of the AI bubble.

Edit: This is a sales pitch from OpenAI to the RCMP, with them saying they'll sell police forces an intelligence feed. It just comes across as horribly tone deaf and is problematic for so many reasons.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

I like that this looks like OG Steam.

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

DirectX 5, that brings back some memories lol. That's when 3D started to get serious and it felt like there was a lot of innovation happening quickly (competition with 3dfx's Glide?).

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I'm confident someone has done a price model comparing doing these "fake sales" vs. "real sales" vs. "no sales", ergo it is possible to quantify the damages. Smart/big businesses don't make decisions without doing the math first and then testing the price strategy, and that diligence could have been used against them to determine damages.

 

Looks fun 😈🍭

 

In a nutshell, the tiers are:

  • Product of Canada - Very best - Produced here and 98% of ingredients are from Canada.
  • Made in Canada - 2nd best - "Made in Canada means the last substantial transformation of the product occurred in Canada"

Others:

  • "Roasted and blended in Canada" to describe coffee since the coffee beans are always imported
  • "Distilled in Canada" to describe bottled water that was distilled in Canada
  • "Canned in Canada" to describe a food that was canned in Canada
  • "Processed in Canada" to describe a food which has been entirely processed in Canada
  • "Prepared in Canada" to describe a food which has been entirely prepared in Canada
  • "Packaged in Canada" to describe a food which is imported in bulk and packaged in Canada

Check the link for the full details.

 

I'm thinking about moving my router to be a VM on a server in my homelab. Anyone have any experience to share about this? Any downsides I haven't thought of?

Backstory: My current pfSense router box can't keep up with my new fibre speeds because PPPOE is single threaded on FreeBSD, so as a test, I installed OpenWRT in a VM on a server I have and using VLANs, got it to act as a router for my network. I was able to validate it can keep up with the fibre speeds, so all good there. While shopping for a new routerboard, I was thinking about minimizing power and heat, and it made me realize that maybe I should just keep the router virtualized permanently. The physical server is already on a big UPS, so I could keep it running in a power outage.

I only have 1 gbps fibre and a single GbE port on the server, but I could buff the LAN ports if needed.

Any downsides to keeping your router as a VM over having dedicated hardware for it?

 

Makes zero sense. The provincial government should stick to provincial matters instead of trying this dumb populist play to win rural votes by sticking their fingers into municipal matters.

 

The sole moderator doesn't even follow their own rules: https://lemmy.ca/post/22741340?scrollToComments=true

I'll just say it - it's a Russian propaganda community. Is there any reason this community needs to exist on Lemmy.ca? Is there a rule against blatant astroturfing / propaganda / misinformation? I don't think the 5 rules in the sidebar are going to be enough to stop an army of trolls:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, > or xenophobia. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here. No porn. Use the NSFW tag when needed. No Ads / Spamming. Bot accounts need to be flagged as such in their settings.

Maybe time to get ahead of it?

 

The 2TB is on sale too. All sizes keep going up and down on price, with this being the ATL. This was on sale for this price at the start of the week, then it went up to like $95, so who knows what the real regular price is.

 

I preordered a Seasonic Vertex PX-1200 (aka. 1200P, Platinum) back in January and Seasonic told me the Vertex series would be widely available that month. It's now July and while the Gold (GX series) Vertex PSUs have been released, there's no signs that the P series ever shipped.

Anyone have any idea what's up with that? Are they actually going to ship or are they going to cancel the product line?

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