Shadow

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[–] Shadow 2 points 16 hours ago

By contrast, the vast majority of light aircraft pilots I know are 60+, many 70+ with extensive health issues, heart problems and likely comparatively poor reflexes.

Totally. I have my student license and everyone at the field is much older than I am. There's a reason that some plane models are called things like "doctor killers".

Also there's a lot of random pilots up in places like Alaska or crop dusting in middle America that just don't give a fuck about anything. That tends to skew the stats a bit more I think.

[–] Shadow 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah you could totally make that argument. A cessna cruises at around 125 knots (143 mph) and google tells me the speed limit on a US highway is 85 mph.

It's still less safe than driving a car, and not as safe as people assume all flying is (thanks to commercial flying being amazingly safe).

[–] Shadow 14 points 16 hours ago

I pasted the links elsewhere, but it's important to differentiate between general aviation (small planes, crop dusters, personal pilots, etc) and commercial flying.

Commercial flying is EXTREMELY safe, ridiculously so. The safety culture is amazing. General aviation does it's best, but at the end of the day people just aren't as responsible in small planes.

[–] Shadow 86 points 16 hours ago (24 children)

I hate to link them, but video of the outside of the plane - https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1irthzm/all_survived_video_from_passenger_on_board/

Everyone walked away. How the hell do you land a plane upside down?

[–] Shadow 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Not sure how anything you asked is relevant? At the end of the day, general aviation is not super safe to the standard that people expect from commercial / corporate flights.

https://pilotinstitute.com/is-flying-safer-than-driving/#personal-flights

[–] Shadow 12 points 17 hours ago (16 children)

Before everyone jumps on politics, not every plane crash is Trumps fault. Small planes are roughly as safe as riding a motorcycle, stuff like this happens all the time.

[–] Shadow 3 points 18 hours ago
[–] Shadow 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Huh? Am I missing something because I haven't seen Jaws?

[–] Shadow 2 points 21 hours ago

Can you please forward it to us? Ideally as an attachment so I can see the mail headers. [email protected]

[–] Shadow 4 points 21 hours ago

Oh yes please.

[–] Shadow 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Definitely coincidental, we don't do anything with your email except send registrations / notifications. It never goes anywhere other than lemmy's db.

There's a big fat red delete button at the bottom of your settings page - https://lemmy.ca/settings

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submitted 2 days ago by Shadow to c/main
 

Sorry about the brief downtime there!

Wasn't related to the new users or high load, but was a combination of two problems:

  1. Our fw02 took over for some reason TBD
  2. Opnsense isn't keeping haproxy configs in sync and fw02 had a broken config

Still digging into the root cause, but shouldn't be any more issues =)

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submitted 1 week ago by Shadow to c/main
 

Just a heads up that we're now running on lemmy 0.19.9.

Change log here - https://lemmy.ca/post/38913840

 

Sorry about the ~20 minutes of downtime there!

I was working on migrating the lemmy.ca domain out of a personal cloudflare account, into a shared one for Fedecan. Missed one little setting that took me far too long to track down!

 

Unfortunately the pictrs database migration yesterday seems to have skipped migrating a ton of data.

Since cloudflare is caching our images, almost nobody noticed. We've now been running on the new instance for over a day, collecting new images into a new incomplete db. Fun.

I now have two copies of pictrs running, one with the postgres db and one with the legacy sled-db. Requests that fail against our updated one, will be retried against the legacy one. This should result in all images working properly again for now, while I figure out a better long term solution.

Please let me know if you still see any issues with images loading!

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Shadow to c/main
 

I'm curious if anyone here actually finds value in the reddit posts brought over by lemmit.online, since I'd like to defederate from it otherwise.

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they're going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it. TBH I forgot it existed until Tesseract showed me its posts again.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Shadow to c/main
 

Hi everyone!

Tesseract is now available as an alternative front end at https://tess.lemmy.ca/

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Shadow to c/main
 

Hello everyone!

I'll be taking the site down for two maintenance windows this week to complete our server migration.

  • Weds Jan 29th - 09:00 - 11:00 PT (12:00 - 14:00 ET)
  • Thurs Jan 30th - 09:00 - 11:00 PT (12:00 - 14:00 ET)

During the first window I'll be migrating us from OVH to our new dedicated hardware. After this migration there will likely be some temporarily broken images, as it takes approximately 8 hours to resync our object storage from OVH.

This is a major change and despite my testing, may have some unintended side effects. If you run into any problems that aren't just a broken image, please let us know.

The second maintenance window is to migrate our pict-rs database from it's local sled-db into our primary postgres DB. This is a much smaller change but since pict-rs checks every image as it goes through them, it takes about 1.5 hours.

As usual, you can check https://status.lemmy.ca/ for updates.

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