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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 73 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The source code is private, how can you call that open source?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

This feels like a Band-Aid instead of fixing the root problem. I've never seen this happen, maybe you have a bad plugin causing it? Turn off all your plugins or start a new profile, then turn things on one at a time.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I see this guy decided to move on from fixed wing to rotary after his last plane....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I assumed the same.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

I owned several xps in a row, then got one with that touch bar. I returned it and stayed away since. Smart move to ditch it

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd be more concerned about the abrasive factor of dishwasher soap over time, rather than temperature issues. Dishwasher soap is very gritty since it needs to use that as an abrasive to get food off, rather than someone wiping with a scrub.

Really gonna depend on what type of print sheet as well. If you have a coated sheet, that coating is probably going to get worn off.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

You're not hacking a car via fault injection alone though. You can probably crash and reboot the ecu, but there's no way you'd manage predictable control over which bits you're flipping.

Also because ground on a car is so dirty, the electronics are well isolated.

If you have any evidence of this actually being possible, I'd love to read it.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What you describe is physically not possible. A vehicle chassis is a ground plane for the entire car, and not hooked into any communications. It's also a really really noisy ground plane thanks to the alternator and engine.

If they're plugging into the obd port or some other part of the car giving them access to the canbus, sure. They weren't only connecting to the chassis though, they need some sort of network access.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Wtf, no. You've seen people hacking a car via a headlight connector because it's on the canbus (in car network). You've absolutely not seen people just clipping to the frame.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Imagine a disk shelf of 24 drives being connected by a pair of sas loops. You'd want the faster speeds then. It's not about individual drives.

 

Anytime someone is carrying an umbrella he'll take it off them and carry it.

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Tldr: the idea of it being used to attack the UN is total fear mongering. They were probably just sending spam

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

We're now running 0.19.13

Lots of little bug fixes: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-09-10_-_Lemmy_Release_0.19.13

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Hello everyone!

It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress:

Finances

Here’s a look at our bank balance since we began accepting donations:

We’re currently sitting at around $2,900, with a monthly burn of about $200, which gives us roughly a year of runway. We have some additional annual costs (like domain renewals and non-profit registration), but overall we run very lean.

Fedecan still owes:

  • TruckBC: $1,980
  • Shadow (me): $525

These were out-of-pocket hosting and non-profit registration costs from 2023/2024. It’d be great to get those covered, but we want to keep at least a year of operating expenses in reserve.

If you're a regular user and value what we're doing, please consider donating! We have multiple ways to donate, you can find the comparison and donation links on our website: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

Sh.itjust.works

Nothing major to report here - we’ve all been a bit busy lately, but collaboration is continuing slowly behind the scenes.

Fediverse Growth

We're seeing a healthy volume of posts and communities on lemmy.ca, surging with each Reddit drama:

Infrastructure

Our server is a Dell R7515 with an EPYC 7763, 1 TB ram and 4x 7.68tb nvme data disks, which is hosted in a datacenter in Vancouver, BC.

I spun up victoriametrics + victorialogs a few weeks ago and have been ingesting all of our data, giving us the ability to put together some nice grafana dashboards.

Everything is running great on the infrastructure side of things. Our server is barely working up a sweat and we shouldn't have to worry about scaling for a long time.

Lemmy.ca still comprises almost all of our traffic:

Lemmy.ca

Our over provisioned stack is performing well, handling the occasional lemmy / lemmy-ui dropout:

Similarly the DB is mostly running out of ram:

Our object storage is slowly climbing as expected, but we've got several years of capacity to figure out a long term solution:

I’m also doing some limited analytics on our web logs. As expected, lemmy.world makes up the majority of our federation traffic:

One interesting thing to see from the user-agent data is the breakdown of traffic by the different mobile clients:

The “dart” UA is just a common web library, Thunder reports as this and I suspect other clients do too. If you’re a client developer, please set your user-agent!

Out of the alternative web clients we support, tesseract is the most popular although the overall traffic volume is still low:

We only store 7 days of logs but I’m hoping to get these pulled out into metrics soon, since it would be interesting to track which clients / interfaces people use over time.

Pixelfed.ca

Not much to say on this one, due to using local storage it currently runs on a single VM without redundancy.

Piefed.ca

Piefed runs on a pair of VMs with its own database and object storage backends.

Service Health Response data

Cloudflare

If you want to compare against previous data posts, here’s our same cloudflare graphs for lemmy.ca

As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks for being a part of the Fediverse!

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