Canada
B.C. Mountie discharged from RCMP after breaching public trust, pursuing teen - BC | Globalnews.ca
Nogami 8 hours ago • 100%
Oh look. Someone got their parents computer. No time for kiddies. Blocking you.
Nogami 8 hours ago • 100%
And look at that.
Once the government says “nope, we’re not gonna force a settlement”, the issue is worked out and apparently the pilots’ union is happy with the agreement.
Apple
Commission starts first proceedings to specify Apple's interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act
Nogami 8 hours ago • 11%
Dear Apple. Pull your devices from Europe for a few years and let them “enjoy” android devices only.
Nogami 8 hours ago • 100%
Were the cons seriously not intelligent enough to see they’d lose that motion?
Oh ya. Grandstanding without substance. It’s their way.
Canada
B.C. Mountie discharged from RCMP after breaching public trust, pursuing teen - BC | Globalnews.ca
Nogami 8 hours ago • 100%
Fake news? Do you actually buy that line of conservative bullshit?
Nogami 3 days ago • 100%
lol. Blocked.
Nogami 3 days ago • 90%
Liberals are gonna be done the next election and dumbasses who vote con thinking it’s gonna be better are in for a rude awakening as they shovel money to their big business buddies.
Nogami 5 days ago • 100%
I totally approve of this. Asia is pretty unstable right now with China always “threatening”. I think defense spending in this area sends the right message.
Canada
Doug Ford is ‘obsessed with alcohol in convenience stores’ instead of health care, Jagmeet Singh charges
Nogami 6 days ago • 65%
You aren’t really that dense are you?
Nogami 7 days ago • 100%
Better believe hearing aid manufacturers gonna try and legislate these out of existence lest they lose their cash cow.
My bet is a patent troll lawsuit.
Nogami 7 days ago • 66%
Forgot to block the word Gaza. Thanks!
Nogami 7 days ago • 100%
Enable safe mode too? If there’s a problem while in safe mode just power cycle the router and the last good config before safe mode enables should come back up.
I’d still do a backup in addition to play it safe though.
Nogami 7 days ago • 100%
If you call the mayors office on the phone does every crazy that calls get put right through? Of course not.
They need to hire a social media manger to filter the crazy. The mayor is under no obligation to read their insane ravings.
I dumped twitter/x a couple of years ago. No negative impacts at all. Just not hearing from “those types” anymore.
Edit: and anyone that can’t behave can have their comments removed. We don’t need online amplification for the worst kinds of people.
Nogami 7 days ago • 100%
Don’t know about you but I wouldn’t feel comfortable flying an airline where workers are being beaten-down by the government to do their jobs.
Probably not a safe travel environment.
Nogami 7 days ago • 100%
Let’s make a real bargaining process happen. If the government is forced to intervene, for every day a negotiated contract is not signed, the company CEOs are directly fined 2 % of their total yearly compensation payable in the next tax year.
Nogami 1 week ago • 66%
They’re obscenely priced too. If AirPods can do even half as good as dedicated ones they’ll be an amazing tool for people with poor hearing.
My wife’s dad is too proud to buy hearing aids but he might be convinced to use AirPods because they’re just headphones like everyone wears.
Nogami 1 week ago • 90%
Most countries regulate medical devices rather closely. The US ASND Canada have some parity of regulations so an obvious first step.
Nogami 1 week ago • 83%
That whole “don’t be evil” mantra is long dead now.
Be evil if it makes money.
Canada
Far-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada
Nogami 1 week ago • 100%
Low budget propaganda. Maybe made by those trucker fools or their friends? Hick central.
Nogami 1 week ago • 100%
It’s awful. I had other incompatibilities but I would’ve uninstalled it for photos being so awfully itself.
Getting to a specific album is slow and a chore, it feels clunky.
Maybe it will be faster with AI but it’s not there yet so I need to go with what I see.
Nogami 1 week ago • 100%
Threads like this always bring out the uninformed. It’s great. Easy to block them. Fish in a barrel.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
I like the feel of fine woven. Got it with my 15 pro max.
It’s aged a bit but not worn through or fraying. I did spray it with scotchgard when I first got it though which probably helped somewhat.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
It’s not even private landlords that people should be worried about. There’s a big push on for big companies to just buy as much land as they can everywhere to permanently claim it for future rental purposes.
Consider if rather than a city with a million independent landlords, “omni corp.” bought and controls 90% of the available units anywhere in the city and can control who can live in the city through their database, etc.
Maybe they decide to buy some retiree houses before they pass away and offer the grandkids shares in the company for ongoing revenue and guaranteed income for the rest of their lives. Many old folks would jump at that. But omnicorp would never let the land ever become public again.
It’s all about real estate now. Any other “investment” is inferior. My previous boss knew that ages ago.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
This is 100% a Doug ford problem.
In BC all rent hikes are permanently capped at the government limit regardless of anything else.
Canada
Far-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
“Trucker convoy” and all of the idiots that bought that stupid political crap hook line and sinker.
networking
Do I need open unifi or is a simple router okay for my setup?
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Well said. I run a mikrotik router for my main network and use unifi APs throughout my house. Took a lot of tinkering to set up and I learned a lot. Very flexible but more expensive and much harder to learn than a simple all in one setup.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 33%
Aren’t you precious. lol.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 90%
And yet I can get stuff shipped to me free or nearly free from china while it costs me $25 to get the same size box half way across Canada.
Canada
Canadian universities see international students’ enrolment down 45 per cent after rule change. ‘The system is just hanging on’
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Exactly. The rules haven’t fully taken effect yet. Infact international student numbers are currently spiking by those wishing to beat the crackdown.
Canada
Canadian universities see international students’ enrolment down 45 per cent after rule change. ‘The system is just hanging on’
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Universities prioritize international students over Canadian students because of the revenue potential and they’ll admit less Canadian students and hold more spaces reserved for International.
The only solution is proper government funding as education is already prohibitively expensive.
I’d like to see high demand jobs have education funded significantly by employer contributions and government over students. Medical and skilled technology and trades. Sorry art majors, you pay full freight to indulge your passion.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yup. I had 2 medical procedures that would’ve set me back over $100,000 in the US. In Canada I was miffed that I had to pay for parking during the surgery.
Canada
Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 60%
Like prosecuting those “trucker convoy” idiots!
They all deserve eternal contempt.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
People gotta go watch that scene from The Newsroom.
I’ll link it. It’s true.
https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?si=p-IgIHmjlNOGr8ut
There are lots of places in the world where people have far better quality of life and don’t need to cower in fear of who’s going to try and kill them and their families next.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Any Will Smith movie.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yup. The fossil fuel crowd sponsored by by oil always trotts out an edge case of someone who commutes daily 200 miles each way in the winter to scare people. But it’s a total BS scare tactic that probably impacts one person in a million.
The rest are better off on electric. Once they try they’ll never go back.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Build them in Alberta. They already don’t care about the environment.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 66%
For many homeowners their home equity is their only remaining retirement plan.
Maybe you are fortunate enough not to be there but many are so any government that makes moves to reduce that equity will be gone the next election cycle.
Want a single detached house? Start climbing the property ladder in the middle of nowhere not presuming it’s realistic to start at the top in a major city anymore.
Hard truth gonna get downvoted. Pity.
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
Which bogus alerts were those?
I’m more than willing to get a text message that might help a kid be safe.
Canada
AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart and other reasons Canada’s AI laws need urgent attention
Nogami 2 weeks ago • 100%
It’ll get better.
No issues upgrading either my main server or my backup (both are supermicro platforms).
Just got the latest iOS 17.4 public beta from Apple, and it fixed the bug that prevented my 2020 MYP from sending text messages from the car's infotainment system. *Finally....*
Canadian here. Most of our banking is electronic in Canada and I just don’t physical currency much. I mostly stuck with using paper currency in Japan this past summer. I couldn’t find a quick and easy way to easily convert my coins back to paper yen before the flight home so used up some of my baggage weight allowance with a big sack of Japanese coins. Any tips? I don’t mind paying a percentage to do it but don’t want to count myself. If there’s a shortage of coins in Japan right now it’s because all your yen are in my luggage. Banks here used to have machines to do it with Canadian coins but with few people using coins now they all got removed. Plan B was to pour my 2kg sack-o-yen into a temple donation box and reap the good Karma for years to come.
I’ve got my mirrors set to auto fold at home due to tight parking in the garage. Wish the screen could have an option to automatically switch to camera view when they fold.
My home network is firewalled and reasonably secure (all permanent devices and IOT devices have MAC addresses tracked and registered) but I’d like to improve it even more: - Home devices (servers, printers, laptops, etc) with registered MAC addresses which can’t be accessed from my registered IOT devices or from unregistered guest devices. - QOS rules for all guest devices. Using a HEX to run the network with unifi AP hardware.
Just wondering if anyone knows which SAS connectors on the SAS826A backplane control which ports? On my current setup only ports 8-11 are working so got some troubleshooting ahead of me. The online manuals show the connectors but unhelpfullyndont indicate which ports are being used for each. Also, anyone know what the ribbon cable beside the SAS wires is used for on supermicro cables? I don’t recall seeing it on other SAS cables.
Just wondering what you do when the kids always want one parent over another? Both of my kids are _always_ about daddy (me). Even when mom spends time with them (2 and 5), they’re still asking about daddy all the time and it’s driving her crazy because they always want time with me rather than her. I absolutely adore spending time with both of them. I’ll bathe them, put one of them to bed (mom gets the other one and we alternate), I help them get dressed in the morning, drive them to school and pick them up about half the time, change diapers and everything. I’m very aware that you get 4 or 5 years with your kids then they’re not your little kids anymore and that part of all of your lives is gone forever.
Ok it’s a wish list but I’m trying to check all boxes. - slim design - card ejector mechanism - AirTag integrated without a massive unsightly bump - MagSafe connection to iPhone - brown or black leather (optional but preferred over metal) - price $120 max I haven’t found any options yet which check all boxes.
Getting my kids (2 and 5) out the door in the morning can be a challenge (you know it) so I decided to try and take something mundane and make it special. The “bumpy shortcut”. Really it’s just a back laneway to my youngest’s childcare and a slight detour for kindergarten drop off, each with a set of speed bumps. But it’s different and had a name they can latch onto. And so…. Everyone has had breakfast and got their shoes on, so we have time for the bumpy shortcut today! Or (looks like we’re not focused enough today to get out the door on time, guess we can’t take the bumpy shortcut). When I do the “shortcut” I make a game out of who gets the big bumps at speed and who gets a “little bump”. They both love it. Try and take something every day and make it special for them!
I have to work, but the family is going camping without me. Wife asks which flashlight she can borrow to take with her and the kids. I’m rocked to the core. Visions of Obi Wan just casually handing Luke a lightsaber to swing around in his house. My flashlights only range between “hotter and brighter than the sun” to “wouldn’t be out of place on a police helicopter”. Nothing in this range is remotely qualified for use by wife and kids, much less dealing with the batteries that power them. The only solution is buy more flashlights. Maybe something that also uses AA batteries (le barf).
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the aforementioned Hankook tires on their MYP (or in general for Hankook?). Still have one more season or so left on my 2020 tires but want to be ready when the time comes.
So, inspired by Bluey, I started playing a new water-based game with my son and daughter, for the past few months, who absolutely love it. Welcome to "Crocodile" (it's inspired by Australia, after all!) 1. Dad is at one end of the water with one of the child's toys sitting next to him on the edge of tub or pool. 1. Child magically turns dad into an animal (Crocodile was the first one), so dad magically turns into a very sleepy crocodile protecting his "treasure" with his eyes closed. 1. Child has to sneak past to retrieve their toy from the crocodile, who sleeps rather restlessly, and occasionally flexes/snaps it's jaws (dads arms) as noise and ripples disturb it's otherwise tranquil slumber. Of course I give them a few "scares", then let them grab the toy, to the tune of much giggling. We've also done * jellyfish (fingers floating lazily on the water), no stinging, but these jellies tickle! * hippo (snoozing with mouth under water, breathing through nose blowing bubbles) * ducky (two fingers clicking together), not super scary. * and monkey (mostly just noise). Anyway, as usual, thanks to Bluey for getting dad thinking outside the box to play with his kids even more.
So rental advocates are calling for maximum temperatures as well as minimums. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-heat-wave-august-2023-rental-housing-rules-1.6935647 So by this logic if there’s a maximum permissible temperature, if I have AC installed in the rental unit it must run at whatever level is necessary 24/7 to not exceed that maximum temperature at any time, even if it adds hundreds of dollars a month to the renter’s utility bill? Nobody would want to put someone’s health at risk by letting it get too hot. Is that really what tenants want? Because I sure wouldn’t have wanted that kind of bill when I was renting, I would’ve just preferred a cheap fan I could turn on or maybe a home brew swamp cooler. Or are they just clumsily wanting landlords to supply ACs with rental units now, which will drive prices even higher even before electrical upgrades…. Not sure if they want plentiful housing, affordable housing, or nicely outfitted suites. Renters may pick 1 of the above options only.
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I’d guess they’d go for about $150,000 a piece if you built blocks of them. The lower unit is probably cheaper without the rooftop access. And yes, this is the future of home ownership here, not single detached living. Got a note back from the IG creator. Rents for about $850 a month and is just north of downtown Tokyo.
So off to Japan for a month and it appears that my EDC is going to suffer as Japanese law prohibits people carrying any sort of edged tool unless they need it for their work. Kinda sucks for a country known around the world for crafting sharp blades. Apparently any sort of run-in with law enforcement pretty much guarantees a bad time if you have so much as a Swiss Army knife with you. Keeping in your hotel is fine, but walking around with it is not. Makes me a bit (lot) sad. I’ve EDCed a small Kershaw or Benchy with me for the better part of the last 5 years or so. Backup plan is going to be a flashlight or two. Those aren’t prohibited. Probably a Hank light and a tiny rechargeable I can keep in my pocket.
Got some extreme warm weather coming and I'm going to be out of town for a while. Can't trust the inlaws staying here to do anything server related. Anyone know of a plugin or script to automatically shutdown if the system temp is too high?
So I'm trying to find time to meet up with a friend of mine, and the only mutually workable time seems to be during the Obon holiday, which they described as "a nightmare" for travel. I've been to Japan a number of times and speak relatively well, however I've never happened to be there during Obon before. Is travel a total non-starter, or does it just require extra planning and booking everything well in advance? My route would be from Tokyo to Niigata, then back again on the Shinkansen.
The Lower Mainland’s last drive-in movie theatre may not be closing after all, as councillors in the Township of Langley are looking at saving the Twilight Drive-In. Mayor Eric Woodward says he met with the operators of the drive-in, and says he discovered how important it is to the local economy.
Looking for some really good instant Chai Tea mix in the lower mainland. I've been going down to Trader Joe's to get their spiced Chai powder, which I really like, but it's sort of expensive and a long way to go. Any ideas for brands and locations to pick it up that are local? Doesn't need to be super-authentic, just tasty and easy to make without extra perishable ingredients - powdered milk with sugar and spices is totally fine, just want something I can keep in my desk drawer at work instead of feeding Starbucks.
docs.unraid.net
Bug fixes emhttpd: remove "unraid" from reserved names list emhttpd: properly handle "ERROR" strings in 'btrfs filesystem show' command output emhttpd: prevent cmdStart if already Started network: Revised service reload functionality: ensures the services are only reloaded once network: rc.library: read IP addresses directly from interfaces instead of file network: NTP: fix listening interfaces network: NTP: exclude WG tunnels and user defined interfaces network: NTP: add interface name in config network: SSH: add interface name in config webgui: fix PHP8 warning in UPS Settings page webgui: Dashboard: show ZFS percentage based on c_max value webgui: Dashboard: suppress coloring of ZFS utilization bar webgui: Dashboard: olther misc fixes Linux kernel version 6.1.34 Base Distro ttyd: version 1.7.3 (fixes issue of invisible underbar characters with certain FireFox versions) Security updates ca-certificates: version 20230506 curl: version 8.1.2 (CVE-2023-28322 CVE-2023-28321 CVE-2023-28320 CVE-2023-28319) git: version 2.35.8 (CVE-2023-25652 CVE-2023-25815 CVE-2023-29007) ntp: version 4.2.8p17 (CVE-2023-26551 CVE-2023-26552 CVE-2023-26553 CVE-2023-26554 CVE-2023-26555) openssl: version 1.1.1u (CVE-2023-2650) openssh: version 9.3p1 php: version 8.2.7 libX11: version 1.8.6 (CVE-2023-3138) libssh: version 0.10.5 (CVE-2023-1667 CVE-2023-2283) zstd: version 1.5.5
So just to get some content going on Lemmy, and get contributing here, thought I'd write a bit about going to 6.12 RC with a ZFS pool and what I've done on my server to try and make use of that newfound ability... **Original configuration (pre 6.12):** - 17 unRAID array drives in XFS format - dual parity - 2 NVMEs (cache and appdata are separate) in *XFS* format - XFS formatted - Backed-up daily with rsync to a second unRAID server on my LAN. **New configuration 6.12 (currently RC8)** - 13 unRAID array drives in XFS format - dual parity - 4 x 8TB drives in a ZFS raidz1 pool - 2 NVMEs (cache and appdata are separate) in *ZFS* format with compression enabled. - Backed-up hourly with ZFS snapshots **Why the change?** - Going to ZFS for my "important data", which is to say, personal documents, family photos (yay babies!) - Enables snapshots to help aid in the event of a "soft" data error (file being accidentally deleted, overwritten, or maliciously damaged by software, etc, bitrot, etc). Also enables extremely quick replications to my backup server. - Faster access to those personal documents with data striped across 4 drives. - Keeping main array as unRAID array drives for "easily replaceable data" (mostly media files, linux ISOs, etc.) so I can expand it easily by chucking another drive in my server or up-sizing an older drive easily. **Enhanced backups through ZFS:** - ZFS has some rather remarkable options for data backups that are enabled by the snapshot capability of the filesystem. Rather than sending individual files across the network and having to laboriously calculate the differences between each file on the dataset (part of the ZFS volume), you can essentially just send the "difference" between snapshots which can stream between servers in a very short time (usually only a couple of seconds in my case). This means I have my system continually backed-up on an hourly basis, with saved snapshots every hour, and every day/month for half a year. **Plugins in use** The current unraid RC8 supports ZFS pools, however GUI support for managing ZFS pools is lacking. I'm using the following plugins and tools to accomplish everything (available through App installs): - **ZFS Master for Unraid**, makes most ZFS operations a GUI interaction rather than terminal. I've heard rumblings that unRAID may acquire/in-house this plugin to add the functionality to the GUI. It would be worthwhile. - **Sanoid**, automatically handles ZFS snapshots, as well as rotating snapshots based on the number of required snapshots per month and/or day. Enables sending ZFS snapshots to a backup server and rotating those snapshots as well to ensure continuity of data. Requires a bit of config file editing by hand to make it work, and setting-up a cron script but nothing difficult (it's well-documented) and was about 5 min to set up successfully. **Backup thoughts** RAID (of any type) is not backup. That said, I have part of the "3-2-1" backup strategy automatically enabled here, with my main server backing up the "important stuff" to a separate backup server also running unRAID. That covers having 2 copies of my data on separate devices, however it does not cover keeping one copy off-site as well. I do have a removable drive in my backup system (currently in XFS format) that's mounted through unassigned devices that I will insert and sync my ZFS pools to twice a year, then go and put in a safe deposit box off-site to ensure it's reliably protected. I currently use XFS for this as it's easy to just plug into any system and get at my files. ZFS is still not as well supported on Windows and Mac systems, but I may go there in the future.