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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Ai article

The footage sells the camera. The silence sells the violation.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

As someone is very comfortable on Cisco / Arista / juniper, yes. It's the only platform I'd push someone to use the web ui on.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

I have a mikrotik 10gb switch and managing it is super frustrating. The mikrotik cli just makes no sense imho

I gave it a ip and enabled snmp for metrics, then have never wanted to go near it again.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

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

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours 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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 18 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You edited the image and the embedded thumbnail inside the image exif didn't get updated.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The political polls seem to disagree with you.

Thankfully it's just a passion side project for me, I'm willing to take the loss and close it down if I need to. Many Canadians aren't so lucky.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Unfortunately the death of CUSMA would destroy many Canadian small businesses, my own included. Nobody would buy my product if it suddenly shot up 20%-50% in price, even though there's no American alternative.

I'd rather we keep the fight up, but if we can get some leverage and buy time for US politics to shift, it'll probably be worth it.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Sorry for the ~26 minutes of downtime, I might have left certbot in a 95% configured state last time I was making changes....

 

Blahaj's recent troubles have motivated me to take care of the OS updates I've been procrastinating on, such as our proxmox and various DB servers.

I'm expecting under 30 minutes to take care of it all, should be back by 9pm PST.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.

This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:

They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Some recent threads have pulled lemmy.ca into the drama around lemmy.world and Luminous5481. We banned them a few days before LW did, and claims have been made that we're aligned with LW in the pro-zionist behavior LW has been accused of.

~8 days ago Luminous had "murder all Zionists" in their name, during which time they banned recursive_recursion@piefed.ca from the community agitprop memes. The reason given was "zionism, genocide apologia" with a 74 year expiry time. Recursive saw this, was confused and insulted by the insinuation / threat, and retaliatory banned Luminous. This happened 2 days before the LW issue began, and from our point of view was unrelated.

Recursive posted in our internal chat immediately after they placed the ban, letting us all know. We all agreed that being flippant about who Luminous labels a zionist while also repeatedly calling for the murder of zionists, wasn't appropriate for lemmy.ca. It violates our of our "Be Civil" rule, and is toxic behaviour that doesn't belong here.

None of us knew at the time why Recursive had been banned, although yesterday while digging I found this thread. Luminous placed the ban because Recursive had banned Deceptichum@quokk.au with a "suspiciously similar ban message" to one MrKaplan used. Recursive used "Troll and perpetual history of bad faith behavior" vs MrKaplan removing a comment as "troll". That's a pretty shitty reason to label someone a zionist genocide apologist, while you're calling for the murder of all zionists.

None of us support Israel, we're all horrified by what they're doing. That doesn't mean throwing around death threats on Lemmy should be tolerated.

Context if you're unfamiliar with this issue:

 

I'm super excited at the prospect of getting a nice dog park in mount pleasant, it's sorely needed.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

I've just completed moving lemmy.ca and piefed.ca away from using Cloudflare's proxy service, this means traffic now comes directly from our server instead of being routed through any US based companies. Pixelfed.ca is still on deflect.ca for the moment.

Let me know please if you run into any problems or errors!

Note that in order to avoid making too many major changes at once, our DNS is still hosted by cloudflare. I'll be moving that away from them later this week

Update April 3rd: We've off their DNS now too, and pixelfed.ca is now off deflect as well. All done rearranging!

 

With the recent willingness of the US Government to pressure its tech agencies into revealing user data without a proper judicial warrant, we've decided it's overdue for us migrate away from Cloudflare.

We'll be transitioning our sites over to https://deflect.ca/ over the next week or so, starting with pixelfed first before doing lemmy and piefed.

I hope to be able to do this without any noticeable downtime, but it is a major config change that will require some backend changes as well. I'll make an announcement before/after and you can always check https://status.fedecan.ca/

Update Feb 16: pixelfed has been migrated to deflect

Update Feb 20: I'm working with deflect on improving performance before migrating lemmy / piefed over. Currently pixelfed load times aren't great due to traffic often hitting edge nodes way out in Europe

Update Mar 17: Unfortunately performance with Deflect isn't where I want it to be since their nodes are out East and our server is in Vancouver. As a result we're just going to be dropping the CDN altogether and hosting directly off our server. I'm planning to do the switchover this weekend (March 20-22), but in the meantime you can use https://test.lemmy.ca/ or https://test.piefed.ca/ if you'd like to bypass Cloudflare.

 
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