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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

Left from Ushuaia down to Deception Island and further south to near Brown Station. Went on an old Russian science ship being run by Quark.

Penguins have a special anus able to withstand higher pressures, so they can poop away from the nest. There's so many penguins in close proximity though they're all just covered in poop. They live off krill so it's pretty stinky.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I was lucky enough to go, it's amazing, totally recommend.

The penguins smell bad but they're still pretty cute.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This is actually a piece of data I've been wanting to pull too, but it'll probably take me a few days to get to it.

In the meantime, I'll just let this url out: https://data.fedecan.ca/images/

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah they use the same color grading style or something.

I've been enjoying all their SciFi: silo, severance, for all mankind, foundation.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The Boys is decent. Otherwise not really.

I only really think of Apple as being able to consistently make good shows.

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

Unfortunately I don't think historical posts are pulled in, just things that have happened since our server started watching their server. If you follow them you'll see any future things they make (as will other users on our server).

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I found https://www.whitebird.ca/ on google which seems to be a decent alternative

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was intrigued by those things a while ago but the subscription + cloud BS was a no-go for me. That aquarium chiller is a cool idea, but not many of those covers on ebay.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days 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:

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Nah like this:

Instead of like this:

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days 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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

 

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 =)

 

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

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

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@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

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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