[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

FWIW we've seen some odd federation issues too. Posts on remote instances not making it to us, but nothing in the logs to indicate a problem.

Seemed to start around the time 0.19.7 came out, but that might be a red herring. (we haven't upgraded yet)

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Nice to see him looking way healthier

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The earth is widest at the equator and it spins along that axis, so it's easier / closer to get up into space.

Alaska probably just cause why not.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't think it's a gendered term, but you could switch to "oh snap"

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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

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 140 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So, I worked on this. I built their in game support system (irc backed!), wrote a bunch of the web auth code, and accidentally once deleted the production user database from the secondary site (whew, disabled and re-replicated from primary).

It was a lot of fun and got me a trip to E3 back when it was the big thing.

It was an interesting concept because no matter what, you would play the american side and fight the terrorists. (you would look like a terrorist to the other team)

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 220 points 3 months ago

Sounds like they could use some more sites linking to them to improve SEO. https://clownstrike.lol/

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submitted 3 months ago by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 133 points 3 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_de_Velde

Under a treaty between the Netherlands and UK, Van de Velde was transferred to the Netherlands to serve his sentence. The sentence was at that time adjusted in line with Dutch law, and the charge of rape was substituted for that of fornication.[11] After serving a year of his original four year sentence, he was released from prison.[8]

So basically the Dutch think it's ok for a 19 year old to get a 12 year old drunk and rape her.

The victim would eventually go on to self-harm and once overdosed.

Some people are saying it ok because it was consensual, this doesn't make it sound very consensual to me.

Wtf.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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.

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 237 points 8 months ago

Before everyone gets their pitchforks out - Person from the image posted on Hacker News, CEO replied and said this charge shouldn't have happened and they wouldn't be charging the client anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 199 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I personally hate all the reddit cross post stuff, and it seems like the majority of lemmy users do too. I don't understand why people obsess over this as a way to "grow" lemmy.

It doesn't contribute to active conversations, in fact it deters users who reply locally and then never get a response.

Just let lemmy grow organically by making good content and contributing, stop forcing it with mirrors from reddit.

I wonder if we could get the top admins to threaten defederation with any instance that doesn't flag automated posts as bots. This way at least the users have some visibility.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 137 points 1 year ago

This is pretty normal, you get a surge of users and then it tapers off a bit as people don't like it.

Could be a lot worse, take a look at the user graph for threads.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 233 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Admins are in agreement that we don't want federation with Meta.

I don't see us currently federating with them - https://lemmy.ca/instances

We'll make sure it stays that way! I've added threads.net to our blocklist.

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