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Shadow

Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer

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  • When they first started doing the paperwork, not as many had died.

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    We don't deserve dogs

  • An app that allows manual control, and then increasing the shutter speed to avoid blur.

    Phone cameras aren't generally the best at action shots, they have too much delay. It's easier to record slowmo and pick out frames, but then image quality suffers.

  • You could do something like nextcloud to solve a lot of issues, but I'd still hesitate to recommend on-prem hardware and managing hardware yourself. It really comes down to the business tolerance for outages though, maybe the computers being down for a day or two doesn't matter.

  • Are you providing a support contract long term? Are you backed by multiple people in case you're away and their business is down? I say this more figuratively than specifically you, this could also apply to their internal IT guy who wants to do this.

    I'd strongly suggest deferring to a local business IT services company, unless you're an active partner in the business. They should find a company they are comfortable with and trust, then use the products they recommend and are comfortable with.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Vote Canadian: A 22 Minutes Election Special

  • Remote work and outsourcing make this tricky.

    I'd define it as 51% of the cost associated with creating it, being spent on Canadians.

  • I just push a button and then wiggle around, so much easier. It's also more of a precise spray dot, like a pressure washer. All the handheld ones I've seen/used are more like a kitchen sink sprayer hose.

  • Definitely hands free, and preferably heated.

  • You got it from a friend on a pile of slackware and floppies labeled various letters. It felt amazing and fresh, everything you could need was just a floppy away.

    Then we got Gentoo and suddenly it was fun to wait 4 days to compile your kernel.

  • Not a troll. I heard it when I watched live and didn't figure out he meant gagged until he said it a second time. Listening to it again I can hear it either way, his pronunciation at the end is just a little off.

  • Hey now, thats not how we communicate on this instance.

  • Tourism makes up 11% of El Salvador's GDP.

    Sounds like that should change too.

  • Right, I misread the subject.

    Paraquat causes Parkinson's. Glyphosate most likely causes diseases too.

  • The iss speed is relative to earth. The earth speed is probably relative to the sun. There's no common frame of reference between the two numbers.

  • Yes exactly. It might pull something like 5 - 20 watts if I had to guess.

  • The UPS only draws significant additional power when charging up. Otherwise it would have a negligible power draw. Just add up your devices.

  • Memory connected via the pci bus to the CPU, would be too slow for application use like that.

    Apple had to use soldered in ram for their unified memory because the length of the traces on the mobo news to be so tightly controlled. Pci is way too slow comparatively.

  • Modern flash is already faster than your pci bus, and it's cheaper than dram. Using ram doesn't add anything.

    It uses to be a thing before modern flash chips, you'd have battery backed dram pci-e cards.

  • I don't expect users to notice much. This mostly just helps SJW avoid duplication of effort that we've already done, things like setting up proper banking / donation systems, etc. They're also welcome to leave at any time, if they feel we're no longer going in the same direction.

    We're not merging sites / stacks or anything like that but we will likely collaborate more, simply to save each other time and energy. Since we are all just volunteers, that's really helpful.

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

    Our Intentions to join Fedecan

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35952239

    Hey all,

    Today, I’m writing to share our intention to join Fedecan, a Canadian not-for-profit organization committed to supporting the Fediverse. We believe this partnership will foster collaboration among like-minded individuals who share a common goal: to create a safe, welcoming space where people can connect freely.

    Together we will help deliver a fast, reliable, and consistent experience for all and continue to be free from corporate influence and guided by the values of openness, community, and trust.

    Who is Fedecan

    Fedecan is a registered non-profit organization based in Canada, with the goal to provide a safe and welcoming space for people to connect with each other on the Fediverse. More information can be found here.

    You may also know them by their Canadian lemmy instance lemmy.ca.

    What does this mean fo

    Videos @lemmy.world
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    DIY X-ray Machine

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

    Upgraded to 0.19.11

    We're now running 0.19.11, changelog here - https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11

    Canada @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Should Canada build a human-focused, foreign intelligence service?

    World News @lemmy.world
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    ‘Hands Off’ protests take off across US to oppose Trump agenda – live

    Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Bernd das Brot

    If you want to watch the depressed bread yourself: https://tv.garden/de/0yjVBN9zD5VvoM

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

    Upgraded to 0.19.10

    For anyone that noticed the 30 seconds of downtime a few minutes ago, that was to upgrade us to lemmy 0.19.10.

    Changes are listed here - https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA

    This is not the version with breaking API changes, there should be no impact to any clients.

    Enjoy!

    Vancouver @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    RIP mcbarge

    F

    Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Magic smoke

    Canada @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Canada to partner with Australia on early warning detection system in the Arctic

    Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Postgres trigger to add filtering to your instance DMs

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40761824

    Sorry everyone I know how much you love the attention she gives you, but I've implemented some quick and dirty filtering for private messaging.

    We now have the ability to automatically mark PM's as deleted or read, depending on content inside of them. If we accidentally filter something you legitimately wanted (ie, not Nicole) please let me know.

    If any other instances would like to implement this, here's the code. Note that you'll need to set your hostname at the top here for some reason I haven't exactly identified.

     undefined
        
    SET lemmy.protocol_and_hostname = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    
    CREATE TABLE private_message_filters (
        id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
        phrase TEXT NOT NULL,
        behavior VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL CHECK (behavior IN ('delete', 'mark_read'))
    );
    
    CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION filter_private_messages()
    RETURNS trigger AS $$
    DECLARE
        banned_phrase_record private_message_filters%ROWTYPE;
    BEGIN
    
      
    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Sorry, everyone's favorite fediverse chick is now being filtered

    Sorry everyone I know how much you love the attention she gives you, but I've implemented some quick and dirty filtering for private messaging.

    We now have the ability to automatically mark PM's as deleted or read, depending on content inside of them. If we accidentally filter something you legitimately wanted (ie, not Nicole) please let me know.

    If any other instances would like to implement this, here's the code. Note that you'll need to set your hostname at the top here for some reason I haven't exactly identified.

     undefined
        
    SET lemmy.protocol_and_hostname = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    
    CREATE TABLE private_message_filters (
        id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
        phrase TEXT NOT NULL,
        behavior VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL CHECK (behavior IN ('delete', 'mark_read'))
    );
    
    CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION filter_private_messages()
    RETURNS trigger AS $$
    DECLARE
        banned_phrase_record private_message_filters%ROWTYPE;
    BEGIN
        FOR banned_phrase_record IN 
            SELECT * FROM private_message_filters
        LOOP
        
      
    HomeLab @geekroom.tech
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Please don't mirror reddit posts here like this

    You just end up creating an desolate community full of noise, since the op will never see the replies.

    It hurts lemmy users who don't realize this and wonder why there's no engagement.

    For example: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17284093

    Blindly copying posts from reddit is not the way to grow a healthy lemmy community.

    Canada @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    King Charles gives his Canadian attendant a sword as sovereignty threats intensify

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

    Overnight downtime =(

    Sorry for the downtime! Unfortunately our secondary firewall took over for some reason, and haproxy failed to properly come up.

    I'll be scheduling a maintenance window in the next few days to do some further digging, so I can make sure this is fully resolved.

    Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    Locust Plague of 1874

    Canada @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca

    We Are Canadian

    Canada @lemmy.ca
    Shadow @lemmy.ca