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[–] Shadow 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're pretty common in nicer datacenter environments. Newer cat6a is only 28awg (tiny and easy to work with!) and can do 10gb just fine.

For example:

What a moron in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Nah like this:

Instead of like this:

What a moron in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Boots suck. Good connectors just have the tab be more of an inverted V shape, so it doesn't catch but you don't need to squish a hard plastic boot to remove it.

70% of Canadians support retaliatory tariffs on United States: poll in c/canadapolitics

[–] Shadow 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Cutting off the power we supply to them.

Isolated places like Point Roberts would be screwed, and the rest of the US would feel it too.

Ontario government sponsors Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News for Trump and Musk interview in c/canada

[–] Shadow 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Ontario government sponsored Fox News host Sean Hannity’s prime-time interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, part of the multimillion-dollar advertising campaign the province is rolling out as the U.S. President repeatedly threatens to impose tariffs on Canadian goods.

While the campaign is expected to cost tens of millions of dollars, the province is refusing to say exactly how much money is being spent on the ads, including the one for Hannity, one of the highest-rated U.S. cable news shows. Fox also did not respond to requests for comment about the cost and frequency of the ads.

The sponsorship ad aired during Tuesday night’s Hannity, before Mr. Hannity’s pre-recorded interview with Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk, the tech entrepreneur and Tesla CEO who leads the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative in the Trump administration.

“This program is brought to you by Ontario, Canada, your trusted economic partner,” the ad said, accompanied by an “Ontario Canada” logo with a maple leaf. It was followed by an Ontario government commercial that showcases the strong economic ties between the two countries.

I A spokesperson for Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s re-election campaign said the sponsorship is part of the province’s original deal with Fox and that no new money is being spent during the campaign, which will see Ontarians go to the polls on Feb. 27.

As part of our U.S.-based marketing campaign that’s raising awareness about Ontario’s importance to America’s economic success, Fox offered the province the opportunity to sponsor programming,” Grace Lee said in an e-mail.

“This was included as part of an overall ad buy that was finalized weeks ago. With President Trump threatening tariffs that would devastate Ontario’s economy, we will do whatever it takes to stand up for Canadians, including by taking our message to U.S. airwaves and the shows we know Republicans and President Trump watch.”

🤦

Video: Macklemore's new song critical of Trump and Musk is facing heavy censorship across major platforms. in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's marked nsfw tho which I assume means no trending

Video: Macklemore's new song critical of Trump and Musk is facing heavy censorship across major platforms. in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Youtube link to help get it to trending - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9EKC9nqU4&rco=1 (if youtube allows it, probably not)

Need recommendations for Canadian registrar and hosting in c/canada

[–] Shadow 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We just switched lemmy and our fedecan domains over to canspace and I'm impressed so far. Nice ui if a little slow sometime, but support was quick and effective.

We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada [edited, see comments] in c/main

[–] Shadow 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no, even worse it sounds like it empties the source account

We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada [edited, see comments] in c/main

[–] Shadow 4 points 1 week ago

Yes

We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada [edited, see comments] in c/main

[–] Shadow 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this still an issue?

We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada [edited, see comments] in c/main

[–] Shadow 4 points 1 week ago

Surprisingly, lemmy won't let me edit his post since we're both admins. He'll update it soon I'm sure.

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Schematic problem - It gets hot and smells like burning (self.askelectronics)

submitted 5 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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I've been messing around with circuits my entire life but this design was time sensitive and I've never done my own PCB designs before, so I hired someone to put this together. After getting some test boards, when I plug them in the charger chip gets very hot and smells like burning....

Circuit is just a simple li-ion usb charger and a switch. I've gone through the datasheet for the bq25302 more times than I can count and I'm missing something obvious here. Using it just for delivering power seems to work fine, the problem is only when charging.

I do see R6 + R7 off TS don't have the recommended 10k values, but I don't feel like that would cause what I'm seeing. This is being connected to a 21700 lipo.

Someone mind lending me their eyes please?

bq25302 datasheet - https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq25302.pdf

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Hexbear - Refederation? (self.main)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

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Recently I was asked if we'd be willing to reconsider federation with Hexbear, followed by CARCOSA reaching out to me to see if it was something we'd be open to.

They made a post asking if their community was interested in refederating with us, similarly I'd like the opinion of our local users.

Why refederate?

Hexbear has a decent number of sizable active communities:

These all seem fairly well moderated, giving us access to more diverse posts and viewpoints. A lot of our feed right now is dominated by US centric communities, and it'd be nice to get some more variety.

Why not?

They love trolling and I don't expect them to follow our rules when commenting (primarily "be civil").

Just looking at their thread about us, there's a significant number of immature replies slandering us / Canada. I'm not confident their users will engage in actual discussion in our threads, rather than just showing up to throw out insults and memes.

We can try to handle this by banning users / blocking specific communities, but that's going to increase moderation workload for both admins and mods. Hexbear is self admittedly quick to ban users on their side, but they also don't mind ban evasion - not ideal for us.

So what's next?

This is where we solicit your opinions, how does our community feel?

Edit: Well, it looks like the community is overwhelmingly against refederation. Decision made, thanks everyone for your feedback!

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Eminem - Somebody save me (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

0 comments fedilink

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How fiber optics are made (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

0 comments fedilink

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Any way to find previously viewed posts? (self.syncforlemmy)

submitted 6 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink

Sometimes I want to find a post I viewed a while ago. I can hide read posts, but is there any way to view read posts?

I can't find anything in any menus.

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Today I learned female bees have pollen baskets on their hind legs (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Shadow to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink

The bees love my garden but I'd never noticed these orange things on any of them before. I thought it might be a parasite but nope!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_basket

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Where's my cat? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink

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Lemmy.ca scheduled maintenance Saturday July 6th - Complete (self.main)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

19 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

We'll be undergoing maintenance on Saturday morning from about 11am - noon PST.

We've been having some stability issues over the past few days that I've tracked down to database performance, so I'll be doing some tuning and also applying all our needed system updates at the same time.

Cheers!

Update: This is all done now!

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Besties (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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We're now upgraded to 0.19.5 (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 8 months ago by Shadow to c/main

5 comments fedilink

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We're now upgraded to 0.19.4 (self.main)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

35 comments fedilink

Sorry for the brief bits of downtime here and there, I snuck in a quick upgrade of us to the latest lemmy 0.19.4 now that a few bugs have been patched out.

More details here! https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

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Pictrs upgrade - completed (self.main)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

11 comments fedilink

I'm in the process of upgrading us to the latest 0.19.4 release.

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

You might see some brief downtime during the next hour or so, pictrs is currently upgrading its database.

Edit: Holding off on lemmy as Blaze was nice enough to flag some new bugs - https://lemmy.ca/comment/9660430

Edit: Pictrs upgrading taking longer than expected after the migration crashed, hopefully wrapped up soon!

Finally Done! We're all ready for the new lemmy version now, maybe once a patch release comes out.