OminousOrange

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[–] OminousOrange 3 points 1 day ago

The photos definitely help tell the story, but I'd recommend looking up videos as well. Seems like a very exciting game.

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Tucked in the Northwest Territories, about an hour’s drive west of Yellowknife, is the Tłı̨chǫ Dene community of Behchokǫ̀. Things move at a slower pace here. Aside from the sound of snowmobiles zipping around, it’s quiet. But for one weekend every March, Behchokǫ̀ is the loudest, most frenetic place north of 60.

Players and spectators from across the region descend on the Kǫ̀ Gocho Sportsplex Centre to attend the Ediwa Weyallon Men’s Handgames Tournament, named for the late, respected Behchokǫ̀ elder. It is considered the biggest annual handgames tournament in Canada.

“This is like the playoffs for the Stanley Cup,” says Dolphus Nitsiza, one of the tournament organizers. “It’s amazing!”

The origin of handgames is unclear, but most Dene agree that it precludes European colonization of the North. Nitsiza says that hunters and trappers played for things they needed while on the land harvesting caribou or fish. Later, pocket change and cigarettes and matches were up for grabs. In some instances, disputes between communities were resolved by playing handgames.

“I heard elders say that people lost entire dog teams, rifles and sleeping bags – things that are very important,” says Clifford Daniels, Chief of Behchokǫ̀.

Watching handgames is mesmerizing, even if you’ve watched a hundred times. Drummers pound loudly on caribou hide drums. Players chant and sway back and forth in sync to the beat. Hands flap and fists pump back and forth, up and down. Ask any non-Dene or outsider how to play and they will certainly shrug and shake their head in bewilderment.

At its most basic and metaphorical, a group of prey (the hiders) must elude a hunter (the shooter). Two teams of eight players face each other; in between the teams are 21 sticks that represent points. One team has a shooter, while each of the eight opposing players hides a token in one of their hands.

The shooter uses a variety of gestures to guess which hider’s hand the token is in. If a shooter misses, the team that is hiding tokens gets a stick (or several sticks, depending on how many players the shooter misses).

If the shooter guesses correctly, the unsuccessful hider is eliminated for the round. After a shooter has guessed all the hiders in a round, the teams switch roles. The game goes on like this until one team has all 21 sticks. Games can last a few minutes or a few hours.

In some Alberta, B.C. and Yukon tournaments, women have been allowed to compete. But in the Northwest Territories, this is a game for men. “It’s always been that way. Even the women forbid themselves from playing,” says Daniels. “But they are really involved in other ways. Look at the vests and drums. Somebody’s cleaned and scraped the hide,” he says.

The drummers act as official hype-men, doing their best to pump up their team while the hiders, in turn, move with a visceral energy, concealing the tokens in their fists and taunting the shooters when they miss.

They don’t stop, even if the power goes out mid-game.

“There’s some pros out there, man. Some ancient warriors have honed their craft over the years,” says Ashton Gahdele, a 20-year-old player from Lutsel K’e. “I have a really fun time whenever I’m playing. This tournament here in Behchokǫ̀ is, like, so different from other games because it’s so huge,” he says.

This year, 62 teams from Dene communities in the Northwest Territories, Northern Alberta and Northern B.C. played for a cut of the $150,000 purse. The winning team split $40,000.

During the games, Behchokǫ̀ sees between 1,000 and 1,500 visitors to the community, which itself is only 2,000 residents.

Players jam the hotels in nearby Yellowknife or stay with friends, while others sleep on cots and inflatable mattresses at the cultural

“I think the community really likes this event because we get to see relatives and friends that we haven’t seen in a year or longer,” says Chief Daniels.

“The younger generation is going to carry this on. And even though some of the elders can’t play anymore, it brings back a lot of memories for them.”

[–] OminousOrange 7 points 4 days ago

Hmm...wonder why.

[–] OminousOrange 7 points 1 week ago

I am Canadian. I want to build a mine somewhere else, let's say Finland. I'm going to build it where no one lives, so I don't impact anyone's home. I'll apply my own laws on the site, even if they contradict Finnish law. I'll totally promise to clean up everything and restore it to what it originally was when I'm done. Do you think Finland would be totally cool with that?

These Bands are effectively sovereign nations, though nearly all of their lands have been seized, their communities displaced to wherever their conquerors wanted, stripped of their resources and culture, and yet, not only do you call them tyrants, you question why they want a say in what happens on what little land they have left.

[–] OminousOrange 6 points 1 week ago

I'm really getting sick of politicians wanting to make places into an "economic powerhouse", or "energy superpower" and I wish more people could see through these terms to what they really mean: more money for the politician's friends with already deep pockets, more destruction of nature, more pollution.

[–] OminousOrange 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree, the assignments will need to adapt to discourage the use of LLMs. Easiest is in-class writing or written exams. Unfortunately that takes away from other class activities.

I remember one of my favourite courses in university had exams where you could bring in any resource you wanted (excluding phones), because the exam was written in a way that required understanding of the core topic, something you can't simply look up.

[–] OminousOrange 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Support local first.

[–] OminousOrange 5 points 1 week ago

That disclaimer is absolutely necessary.

[–] OminousOrange 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nope. No one person ever needs anything near that amount of money.

[–] OminousOrange 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Unfortunately, I feel this may become the new normal.

[–] OminousOrange 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the thing, the PE firm already sold the major assets (the real estate) to themselves and leased it back to HBC. It's their standard playbook.

[–] OminousOrange 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right, but once you factor in those improvement, replacement and maintenance costs, houses aren't really an investment.

[–] OminousOrange 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Right, they don't consider expenses and upkeep there, but it would be quite detrimental to most people if the same would apply to principle residences.

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[O] 3x DrunkenSlug - Finished (self.usenet_invites)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by OminousOrange to c/[email protected]
 

Three Drunkenslug invites to the first three unique comments on this thread. I might not get to sending them until tomorrow.

Happy holidays!

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by OminousOrange to c/[email protected]
 

Hello fine usenet folks. Looking to get a DS invite, and I'd be happy to share any that I get upon registration.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OminousOrange to c/[email protected]
 

Fine folks of c/selfhosted, I've got a Docker LXC (Debian) running in Proxmox that loses its local network connection 24 hours after boot. It's remedied with a LXC restart. I am still able to access the console through Proxmox when this happens, but all running services (docker ps still says they're running) are inaccessible on the network. Any recommendations for an inexperienced selfhoster like myself to keep this thing up for more than 24 hours?

Tried:

  • Pruning everything from Docker in case it was a remnant of an old container or something.
  • Confirming network config on the router wasn't breaking anything.
  • Checked there were no cron tasks doing funky things.

I did have a Watchtower container running on it recently, but have since removed it. It being a 24 hr thing got me thinking that was the only thing that would really cause an event at the 24 hr post start mark, and it started about that same time I removed Watchtower (intending to do manual updates because immich).

...and of course, any fix needs 24 hours to confirm it actually worked.

A forum post I found asked for the output of ip a and ip r, ~~see below.~~ Notable difference on ip r missing the link to the gateway after disconnecting.

Update: started going through journalctl and found the below abnormal entries when it loses connection, now investigating to see if I can find out why...

Apr 16 14:09:16 docker 922abd47b5c5[376]: [msg] Nameserver 1.1.1.1:53 has failed: request timed out.
Apr 16 14:09:16 docker 922abd47b5c5[376]: [msg] Nameserver 192.168.1.5:53 has failed: request timed out.
Apr 16 14:09:16 docker 922abd47b5c5[376]: [msg] All nameservers have failed

Update 2: I found using systemctl status networking.service that networking.service was in a failed state (Active: failed (Result: exit-code)). I also compared to a separate stable Docker LXC which showed networking.service was active, so, did some searching to remedy that.

x networking.service - Raise network interfaces
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-04-16 17:17:41 CST; 8min ago
       Docs: man:interfaces(5)
    Process: 20892 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Process: 21124 ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/touch /run/network/restart-hotplug (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 20892 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 297ms

Apr 16 17:17:34 docker dhclient[20901]: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.104 from 192.168.1.1
Apr 16 17:17:34 docker ifup[20901]: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.104 from 192.168.1.1
Apr 16 17:17:34 docker ifup[20910]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Apr 16 17:17:34 docker dhclient[20901]: bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 37359 seconds.
Apr 16 17:17:34 docker ifup[20901]: bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 37359 seconds.
Apr 16 17:17:41 docker ifup[20966]: Could not get a link-local address
Apr 16 17:17:41 docker ifup[20892]: ifup: failed to bring up eth0
Apr 16 17:17:41 docker systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 16 17:17:41 docker systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 16 17:17:41 docker systemd[1]: Failed to start networking.service - Raise network interfaces.

A reinstall of net-tools and ifupdown seems to have brought networking.service back up. apt-get install --reinstall net-tools ifupdown

Looking at the systemctl status return, I bet everything was fine until dhclient/ifup requested renewal about 24 hours after initial connection (boot), found that networking.service was down, and couldn't renew, killing the network connection.

We'll see if it's actually fixed in 24 hours or so, but hopefully this little endeavour can help someone else plagued with this issue in the future. I'm still not sure exactly what caused it. I'll confirm tomorrow...

Update 3 - Looks like that was the culprit. Container is still connected 24+ hrs since reboot, network.service is still active, and dhclient was able to renew.

Update 4 - All was well and good until I started playing with setting up Traefik. Not sure if this brought it to the surface or if it just happened coincidentally, but networking.service failed again. Tried restarting the service, but it failed. Took a look in /etc/networking/interfaces and found there was an entry for iface eth0 inet6 dhcp and I don't use ipv6. Removed that line and networking.service restarted successfully. Perhaps that was the issue the whole time.

 

This has been one of the key features I've been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive for mobile photos backup.

 

This has been one of the key features I've been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive.

 

This has been one of the key features I've been waiting for to finally be able to move away from OneDrive.

 

I'm fairly green at self-hosting, recently upgraded to running Proxmox on an old PC from OMV. A fairly simple setup for Plex, Nextcloud, PiHole, and some docker containers. I have an old Ryzen 5 2600 I'd like to replace the current CPU with (an even older FX-8350), but I'll need a new motherboard with an AM4 socket.

In sourcing a new mobo, are there any features or other considerations I should keep in mind, given its sole purpose of being a server now, rather than a general purpose PC? Or just try to find something relatively inexpensive that'll get the job done?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by OminousOrange to c/woodworking
 

Just made this sectional following the plans from Ana White.

Roughly $900 CAD in materials, $750 of that being the cushions. I used Duvholmen cushions with Jarpon covers from Ikea, accent pillows I found at Home Sense. All 2x4 lumber and I used pocket holes where screws would be visible. Finished with Ready Seal natural cedar.

Quite happy with it overall. It's really comfortable and will last far longer than (and was cheaper than) those plastic weave ones from big box stores.

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