Ah, I guess not after lemmy.ca moved to a new owner.

Feel free to try http://ded1.isurf.ca/lemmy-resources-0.002.tar.gz

I can’t upvote the comments enough! heh

That’s an interesting premise, that somehow a currency is going to change the nature of how “the internet” is funded. So, none of the world’s currencies have done this, but a “currency” that isn’t really a currency is going to change around the entire economics of everything online?

There’s so many fun presumptions in that notion that it’s hard to even start a discussion.

The short answer is no. I think there’s more than enough evidence out there that cryptocurrencies will remain niche, and this ridiculous ‘web3’ notion of every interaction being a transaction will simply just not occur, much as any bros try and wish and argue for it.

You pay with cryptography?

Disappointing that it’s redacted.

You vote with your dollars, and if you care what Apple is doing, you tell them.

Buy a non-Apple system, write to Apple, and let them know why you’re not longer purchasing Apple equipment.

It’s really simple, if you want companies to change, you stop giving them money (and you tell them why if you’re no longer doing so). Giving them money tells them they’re doing everything just right.

Chef Koch seems to be an entitled spamming ignorant. I blocked his community from lemmy.ca very shortly after he started his story spamming.

That said, you were doing a good thing, @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

You’re showing deep ignorance about this occupation, probably just willful because you’re frustrated with COVID like absolutely everyone else and this fits your narrative. But, just take a second and see who’s behind it. This is just one of many resources on this:

https://www.antihate.ca/the_freedom_convoy_is_nothing_but_a_vehicle_for_the_far_right

BTW - “The Truckers” denounced the Ottawa crap early on. If you stand with truckers, you stand against this bullshit.

lol! I had a good chuckle from this.

Sure, but one of those numbers I can easily reach & distribute. However, you’re right, I don’t mean to suggest to harass the poor people answering the phone. If you ever spoke to a manager or owner, yes, absolutely. But, to a customer service/dispatcher or such person, a polite complaint that you’d like to be passed up to management might help.

But if we can find the higher-ups numbers, we could have at 'er. ;-)

I would like to see a lot of jail time and non-stop fines as well. I think, correct me if I’m wrong, that GoFundMe is not going to stand by their nonsense now, so hit them hard in the pocketbook to help alleviate the financial strain on the area for having to deal with their nonsense. (Which I doubt they can ever pay back)

I would like to see laws put in place to make it illegal to operate commercial vehicles for personal purposes of any sort. Again, fines, commercial licenses revoked, the business involved having their business licenses revoked, etc. Either act like a business, or a petulant baby, but you can’t use one for the other.

Tax the living shit out of their fuel for non-commercial purposes, if you can’t do anything else. How does $40/l sound for this special use of your diesel-burner? I have no idea how to implement this, and it may be impossible. How about mega taxes per km driven for non-commercial purposes then?

Like, at which point do we start taking the environmental aspect of their horseshit seriously? Our world is burning, and these extremists want to burn copious amounts of diesel to go have their shitfit in Ottawa? Not acceptable, period.

If this were an environmental protest, or a protest over land rights, or many other items, would this have gone on longer than a day?

I want to see the military dragging these trucks out of town - maybe with the trucks flopped over sideways like a heap of trash.

Agreed with both of you.

Anyone feel like calling up Ottawa tow truck companies to berate them for being such weak pieces of shit?

(Edit: This isn’t the only issue to deal with, of course, it’s just the latest bit of completely pathetic pus to come out of the mess in Ottawa)

Yeah, CBC’s doing something weird and I never really had time to look in to it in depth. I suspected that they change behaviour/response based on user agent, and I don’t know if they just filter or drop things they figure are real outliers/unknowns/bots or something.

I already had the dedicated server, so it was easy enough to just virtualhost it.

To clarify that comment - I handed lemmy.ca over to @smorks@lemmy.ca as I no longer have the time to run, maintain, and moderate it. The cost for me was negligible at this point - I had it sitting on a dedicated server that ran several other things.

How’re things going?

Not sure why I didn’t see this… are you interested in taking it on?

My setup is from scratch. Most of my moderation is spam removal: https://lemmy.ca/modlog

It’s just a vhost on a dedicated server that I have for a bunch of things. Requires rust and postgresql - and I’m not sure how light of a server would handle it. The lemmy processes are taking up over 5GB RAM, but that’s mostly due to pict-rs, and I’m not sure if it’s just being lazy with cleaning itself up or not. (if I restart pict-rs it’s very light)

The DB size is about 566MB presently.

Anything other particulars you wanted to know about presently?

Ah, very nice! Do you have the ability to take the DB and host the service somewhere?

Gentoo is one of my go-to’s that I come back to time and time again.

I don’t mind spending my time with Gentoo as one can have very stable systems with it (as per your choosing), and if one uses a half decent machine to do all the building, it can supply more lowly machines with a current repository of binary builds.

Yes, it has it’s headaches from time to time (similar to the mention above about Arch and what happens if you don’t update for some time), but nothing insurmountable.

I was never thrilled with Opensuse. I found regardless which flavour I was on, I had to enable so many extra repositories that it eventually turned in to a mess each time.

WSJ sure posts a lot of garbage.

Unfortunately, the-federation.info is broken and nobody’s really interested in fixing it. Trying to get lemmy.ca registered has been futile - you can try it yourself: https://the-federation.info/register/lemmy.ca but I get 500 server errors as a result.

The users # is the total number of users that have registered, yes. There’s also the raw information on active users at https://lemmy.ca/nodeinfo/2.0.json

I think fediverse.observer is going to be a good replacement for the-federation.info - have a look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer for instance.

Well that’s good news - still can’t from Pleroma, but we’re digging in to that. Thanks for letting me know!

I’ve been poking around with it a bit and haven’t been successful with it. I’ve just filed issue #1984 and it appears #1983 was filed yesterday regarding issues subscribing from Mastodon.

Early days…

Heh, possibly!

I think there’s a bit of clumsiness with it at the moment (it would be great if there was a visual indicator that it was still working on grabbing the details on the backend, or whatever), could be worthwhile checking to see if there’s an issue filed for improving that.

That’s a good question - there seems to be some flakiness with it, even with the 0.14.X updates - or there’s something up with the nginx configs that’s causing an issue. I haven’t been able to subscribe from a pleroma instance yet either.

How long did you wait for a result? Checking on this method, I can see that initially it shows no results when I did a test search for https://lemmy.ml/c/aboringdystopia, but after several seconds, it appeared on the result page.

Took awhile when searching for !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml as well. So, it seems to be happening, just not terribly quickly at the moment.

I would love to post a traceroute but it appears that the traffic path that I know was routed through the states is no longer doing so, so it could take some work. Who knows, maybe they were told to fix things?

Hyper Expert is cheap, that’s all I can really say about it. They’ve done some pretty crazily unimpressive things, but I moved VPSes on to a dedicated server and I’ve hardly had to deal with them since.

If you need a little VPS I can say that Linode and Digital Ocean have been mostly fine.

It’s hosted on a dedicated server in Seattle.

Hosting items within Canada isn’t necessarily the panacea that our Canadian law might suggest. Ever watched traffic go cross-country? Somehow, at least Telus is getting away with shipping traffic through the states.

2 - Thanks for the clarification, I stand corrected!

One doesn’t need millions of users to have a healthy community, and if communities are built around being divisive hate machines, there’s no need to welcome them, they can stand alone as their own ignorant islands. You can’t force integration between sane society and the intolerant. The hateful intolerant have to be moderated and told to go piss up a tree.

Gab only turned off federation after it was clear they weren’t welcome anywhere.

I don’t disagree that growth of the fediverse would be a good thing, but not in an unmoderated fashion. The example growth you give is a great example of the wrong way to get growth - nobody’s trying to re-create Twitter. The style? Sure. The content? Nope.

Does this really need explaining? You think a million disinformation zombies would be a good thing?

I guess you weren’t aware that Gab is a fork of Mastodon and was originally part of the fediverse until they were essentially locked out due to their crap?

You must be American, if you believe that conservatism vs liberalism is the same thing as hateful racist trolling dickhead vs. people who don’t want that in their lives.

The rest of the world (mostly) doesn’t live by this constant “red vs. blue” anger fest.

Your best bet is to find where support for Remmel is available. I couldn’t tell you anything about it.

No, I can mod him.

Actually, I have no idea if it’s a him. Apologies if my presumption is incorrect.

lol

Several Canadaland episodes brought this to light and go pretty in depth. I’m looking forward to seeing how the 5th estate covers this, too.

No, harassers don’t always stop - this is a very simplistic view of things. Just ‘buck up’ and all will be well, eh? Have I misinterpreted your comments, or do you also believe that people who are on employment insurance are just lazy?

No worries - I just wanted to let you know that the notifications were occurring. They probably shouldn’t and I will be checking on Lemmy issues about it. (Just filed #1925)

Heh, I used to be biased in favour of XMPP until I did the full switch. ;-)

I’ve more than my fill of XMPP experience since it was Jabber. Pretty completely done with it at this point - and my most recent experiences were still not great, and they’re within the past couple of years. My standpoint isn’t just from a user level, as well. Have run a few XMPP servers over the years.

Element, on the other hand, has really become an excellent client.