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@ Shadow @lemmy.ca

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Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer

  • Pierre Poilievre wins leadership review with 87.4% approval

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  • I wasn't thinking about the loss, but more so the lack of a reasonable response to Trump. He's still stuck on basic 3 word slogans instead of having any real strategy, unless I just haven't seen it.

  • Pierre Poilievre wins leadership review with 87.4% approval

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  • This one surprised me, I expected him to be out....

  • I'll watch these for you

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  • Do you wash it before every single use? Every time you put a fork down on it, or maybe a piece of fruit that you just washed in the sink? Or maybe you ordered some take out and didn't cook anything, but you still touched the counter after washing your hands?

    If you're really that careful about cleanliness then sure, but I'd guess the vast majority of people are not.

    Also if the cat knows it's allowed on the counter, it's probably not going to care if you just washed it or are actively in the process of cooking.

  • I'll watch these for you

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  • I don't understand people that let their cats on the counter. I love my cat but I don't want his dirty feet anywhere near my food prep surfaces.

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    Welcome new users to piefed.ca and lemmy.ca!

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  • If Fedecan funding ever ceases to pay the bills, is there a plan in place, or does it shut down?

    Realistically it would probably just shut down, but our donations are more than covering our expenses at the moment and the site is still growing. I don't have any concerns about not being able to pay the bills. The site only costs us about $200/mo to run so it's not a huge amount, but I'll admit it's only that low due to my donating a server worth around $40k (when it was new, although it'd be like $80k today thanks to ram prices).

    May I suggest looking at government grants and funding if they don’t interfere with your goal and operations, especially now, the government is looking to boost Canadian enterprise.

    Honestly, that sounds like a lot of work 😂 I'm not keen on spending time writing up business growth docs and having meetings, my day job has enough of that for me. If someone else comes along and wants to join the org + help drive that then we'd probably be open to it, but we've all got busy lives and it's not a priority for us.

    do those working with Fedecan pay themselves for their work?

    Nope. It's something we've discussed, but for now we're all on board with keeping things lightweight and not trying to turn this into wikipedia with regular fund raisers to pay salaries.

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    Welcome new users to piefed.ca and lemmy.ca!

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  • I left reddit during the first big API debacle exodus and joined lemmy.ca, around that time Smorks was tired of running the site all himself so I offered my help. Otter and MP3 joined shortly after to help administer everything.

    As we took things over I wasn't comfortable taking donations without a proper non-profit in place, hence Fedecan was born. Big thanks to otter for putting in most of the work around it. We used to be hosted on OVH but after a big outage I donated some beefy server grade hardware to run us on, and we're in a datacenter in Vancouver now.

    Monthly bills (hosting, domain reg, non-profit related stuff) are fully paid for by donations. We have no other funding and no affiliations to any other groups. We don't take any payment for running this, all our time is volunteered.

    https://lemmy.ca/post/47466646 is a bit old now but has some more data about our donations / sites / infrastructure. There's several links at the top to more details as well. We're due for another big status update post but it might take me a bit to get to.

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    Welcome new users to piefed.ca and lemmy.ca!

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  • You can use either, they're both under active development and we maintain both instances. Many people prefer piefed, I personally have stuck with Lemmy. Lemmy makes up much more of our user base still compared to Piefed.

    I personally use Thunder on android and I quite like it, but I don't know what's popular in the ios world. It looks like it's available for IOS too, but I can't speak to the quality of it on there - https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/thunder-for-lemmy/id6450518497

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  • piefed.ca hasn't had any outages since this morning, what were you seeing?

    You only need to sign up for one instance, they all see each others content. Think of it more like email - you wouldn't sign up for both gmail.com and hotmail.com

    For example these two both show the same community which is hosted over at lemmy.world:

    https://lemmy.ca/c/technology@lemmy.world vs https://piefed.ca/c/technology@lemmy.world

    Lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are both run by us (fedecan) and are just different software platforms to interact with the fediverse. Lemmy was the first big popular one and is written in Rust, but Piefed came along more recently and is written in Python (hence the Pie in it's name). Piefed has been quicker about adding features, and many people have issues with the politics of the Lemmy developers. Ultimately they both let you interact with all the same communities and posts.

    Otter put a nice doc together at https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started which has some pictures that might help you understand it all. It can be a little confusing at first!

  • Question regarding power supply

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  • Probably just age. 12 years is getting up there and that pop was likely a capacitor blowing, they only last so long and they've had quality control issues over the years.

    Because you have a Dell you probably won't be able to use a normal replacement power supply. Providing a pic of the cables coming out and their connectors would be useful.

  • You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]

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  • Honestly if you're up on renewables and support them you can skip most of the video, just watch the last 20 mins where he gets angry about politics

  • #1 Post in r/BuyCanadian mentioning PieFed.ca -- 76,000 Views and counting.

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  • Thanks for the heads up, I'll look shortly. Might need to bump the piefed or db vm specs up.

    Edit: I've cranked our piefed db server from 4 cores up to 16. Webservers seem to be handling the load fine, but DB was a little high.

  • We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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  • How would someone get gas on their hands while filling?

    A couple drops on your car or pants I could see if you're impatient, but on your hands? It only takes a moment of waiting to let those last few drops settle down.

  • Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'

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  • Bending spoons in particular is known for this, they did it with Evernote too. They buy a company, fire everyone, coast on its income as long as they can, then repeat.

  • Loops is Now on the App Store

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  • Not that I can see mentioned on the site, the feature roadmap, or the github issue tracker. Kinda mind boggling tbh

    Edit: it's on github, see die4ever's comment

  • US Government responds to claim it 'unlawfully abducted two people from Scotland'

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  • If you use Thunder on android and long press a link, it'll give you several options for mirrors. Awesome feature.

  • hair_irl

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  • Get one of the velvet fabric based ones instead. The disposable sticky ones are a scam to get you to keep buying more.

  • One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals

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  • I was at a gaming studio that closed down in late 2024, most of the people I've talked to since have left games and work in general tech.

  • How do video creators quickly find and compile specific sound bites?

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  • There's generally transcripts made of all those speeches.

  • How many containers are you all running?

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  • At my house around 10-15. For lemmy.ca and our other sites, 35ish maybe. At work... hundreds.

  • Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    I've worn out the spot on my screen where the sync icon lives

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Mlmym bug that allows for 302 redirect hijacking - Now fixed in v0.0.40

    github.com /rystaf/mlmym/issues/101
  • Lemmy Bread @lemmy.world
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    Would you recommend a bread maker?

  • British Columbia @lemmy.ca
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    Trudeau announces $2B to support B.C. housing projects

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/justin-trudeau-david-eby-ken-sim-housing-announcement-1.7120001
  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Scheduled maintenance on Sunday Feb 18th at 11am PST - Now complete

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Need someone to remove me as a mod

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Lemmy.ca upgraded to 0.19.3

  • aviation @lemmy.ml
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    Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects", Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Installed

    viewfromthewing.com /boeing-whistleblower-production-line-has-enormous-volume-of-defects-bolts-on-max-9-werent-installed/
  • Samoyeds @lemmy.ca
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    Perfect weather for a nap

  • scuba @lemmy.world
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    Simon Mitchell - Should divers treat DCS in-water?

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Lemmy upgraded to 0.19.2

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    How does lemmy feel about instances censoring external community posts?

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Lemmy.ca upgraded to 0.19

  • Lemmy.ca Support / Questions @lemmy.ca
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    Need to contact an admin privately? PM admin@lemmy.ca

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    A23a: World's biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years

    www.bbc.com /news/science-environment-67507558
  • Deep Rock Galactic @lemmy.world
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    Why can't I unlock everything?

  • ErgoMechKeyboards @lemmy.world
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    My first build - cheapino

  • Houseplants @mander.xyz
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    My office plant wall

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Chinese military jet intercepts Canadian Forces plane in "aggressive manner"

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Lemmy.ca server stats for Oct 2023