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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah thanks, I'm sure that's what I was thinking of.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

Not the mama!

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

No that's correct. The camera was setup to dump data to an external device, so the onboard stuff was old.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Apparently Walmart can tell a woman is pregnant before they know themselves, they do such extensive data mining around what people purchase.

Maybe google knows your future....

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I found it in the absolute worst format, a YouTube short with some guy watching it. Our society is doomed.

Here it is anyways https://youtu.be/bFLioEc6nCI

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

It's built into lemmy, you'll see it once per year (tracked on your user row in the db)

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This isn't the first cop that's been arrested:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/us/maine-police-officer-immigration-arrest-hnk

The background check systems don't seem to be very reliable.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

20 minutes, thanks to my dog. If not for him I'd easily go days.

Highly recommend dogs. 100% worth it.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 days ago

My cat routinely jumps from a table onto my hot tub lid.

One day he did it while the tub was open and we were in it. Realized his mistake way too late and tried to stop on the edge, but went face first into the water

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yes as long as the total power draw (watts / amps) doesn't exceed the controller or the power supply you're using.

You could plug two in even if there were only one set of terminals. You're wiring them in parallel.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Typically unlocking the bootloader requires a full wipe. It's a security method intended to keep an attacker from compromising your OS to access your data if the phone is stolen.

I've never rooted a phone without requiring a wipe, but I've owned mostly Samsung

 

Tldr: the idea of it being used to attack the UN is total fear mongering. They were probably just sending spam

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

We're now running 0.19.13

Lots of little bug fixes: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-09-10_-_Lemmy_Release_0.19.13

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Hello everyone!

It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress:

Finances

Here’s a look at our bank balance since we began accepting donations:

We’re currently sitting at around $2,900, with a monthly burn of about $200, which gives us roughly a year of runway. We have some additional annual costs (like domain renewals and non-profit registration), but overall we run very lean.

Fedecan still owes:

  • TruckBC: $1,980
  • Shadow (me): $525

These were out-of-pocket hosting and non-profit registration costs from 2023/2024. It’d be great to get those covered, but we want to keep at least a year of operating expenses in reserve.

If you're a regular user and value what we're doing, please consider donating! We have multiple ways to donate, you can find the comparison and donation links on our website: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

Sh.itjust.works

Nothing major to report here - we’ve all been a bit busy lately, but collaboration is continuing slowly behind the scenes.

Fediverse Growth

We're seeing a healthy volume of posts and communities on lemmy.ca, surging with each Reddit drama:

Infrastructure

Our server is a Dell R7515 with an EPYC 7763, 1 TB ram and 4x 7.68tb nvme data disks, which is hosted in a datacenter in Vancouver, BC.

I spun up victoriametrics + victorialogs a few weeks ago and have been ingesting all of our data, giving us the ability to put together some nice grafana dashboards.

Everything is running great on the infrastructure side of things. Our server is barely working up a sweat and we shouldn't have to worry about scaling for a long time.

Lemmy.ca still comprises almost all of our traffic:

Lemmy.ca

Our over provisioned stack is performing well, handling the occasional lemmy / lemmy-ui dropout:

Similarly the DB is mostly running out of ram:

Our object storage is slowly climbing as expected, but we've got several years of capacity to figure out a long term solution:

I’m also doing some limited analytics on our web logs. As expected, lemmy.world makes up the majority of our federation traffic:

One interesting thing to see from the user-agent data is the breakdown of traffic by the different mobile clients:

The “dart” UA is just a common web library, Thunder reports as this and I suspect other clients do too. If you’re a client developer, please set your user-agent!

Out of the alternative web clients we support, tesseract is the most popular although the overall traffic volume is still low:

We only store 7 days of logs but I’m hoping to get these pulled out into metrics soon, since it would be interesting to track which clients / interfaces people use over time.

Pixelfed.ca

Not much to say on this one, due to using local storage it currently runs on a single VM without redundancy.

Piefed.ca

Piefed runs on a pair of VMs with its own database and object storage backends.

Service Health Response data

Cloudflare

If you want to compare against previous data posts, here’s our same cloudflare graphs for lemmy.ca

As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks for being a part of the Fediverse!

 

Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.

I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.

This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.

The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:

 

I don't know how I missed this when it came out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_Cats

Stoner Cats is a cartoon that stars Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Chris Rock as cats that use medical marijuana.[1] The show also stars Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, and Vitalik Buterin with guests Dax Shepard, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Michael Bublé. The producers were fined by the US Securities and Exchange Commission because they sold unregistered NFTs as a means towards a pass to view the show

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