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StayTrue··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Really terrible in Canada. If you don’t have a family physician (like everyone I know), good luck making it through triage at the walk-in clinic because you want a test to see your baseline values or proactively check for deficiency. The “hack” is you can pay a naturopath to order tests but the tests are not covered by public insurance in this case (actually pretty expensive IIRC).
StayTrue··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Correct and complete explanation.
StayTrue··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Dumb change on the part of British Columbia.

Source: me, BC resident.

StayTrue··on Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
Historically speaking, it may have meant open to poorly socialized developers.
StayTrue··on I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
Reminds me of the alt.sysadmin.recovery canonical list of operating systems that suck.

https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/os-suck.html

StayTrue··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
Had to look this up myself.

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

StayTrue··on Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack
Sam Altman the war contractor? I assume they are no longer called defense contractors under this administration.
StayTrue··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
I wonder what Apple estimates this percentage to be given some of their design decisions.
StayTrue··on Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold
If you offered me schematics and PCB designs for a tool I desired, I might be /more/ inclined to give you money just to support you. Nothing to do with my ability or interest in DIY (I also design and sell electronics).
StayTrue··on Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
Don’t worry too much. I’ve incorporated in AB and BC. Neither is difficult to setup or maintain. My regulatory burden amounts to about one weekend of effort per year including corporate tax filings. That’s a baseline. Harder if you employ a team (not just subcontractors) or in regulated industries where you might have environmental compliance or similar.
StayTrue··on Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)
https://web.archive.org/web/20251230193736/https://www.gkbrk...
StayTrue··on I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
I bought the first AMD Framework 13 at launch. It just works and I’d buy it again.

To me their software story is compelling. To use the wording of the article, I like that I can be a weirdo running Linux on a laptop and not be a fringe use case. I had no interest in either of their supported distros but their support forums had the necessary hints needed to get a different distro up and running (plugging in newer firmware from the Linux kernel git).

I like that they’ve given some support to the FreeBSD community and I’d like to run that on a future Framework.

StayTrue··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269
StayTrue··on [dead]
Not only has he tanked the brand, he thinks he deserves $56B for his efforts. And if he doesn’t get it, he might reallocate his attention elsewhere lololol.
StayTrue··on Canadian Devs Are Backing Out of Attending GDC
Do you feel an injustice has been perpetrated against you? The Canadian attitude towards admission vis a vis DUI convictions predates the first Trump administration by a lot.

OTOH Victoria schoolchildren used to do cross border field trips. They ended the practice during the Trump Muslim ban to avoid trauma to kids.

StayTrue··on EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods
You could be right. There are stories about Trump voters being hurt by his cuts and still feel it’s for the greater good.

On the other hand some of these elections are won by narrow margins. Most Trump voters didn’t sign up for pain (not personally, they only voted to harm others). Pain may influence their votes in the future or motivate their legislators to contain the executive branch.

StayTrue··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
Canada’s largest newspaper published an opinion piece [0] calling for the cancellation of F-35 purchases. The article calls out source code availability in its argument.

[0] https://archive.is/2LLkO

StayTrue··on Bye, Prime
I’ve canceled Amazon Prime free trials a couple times. Never noticed any difference in shipping speed with Prime so paying for it never made sense. Perhaps it varies by location (I’m not in a major center).
StayTrue··on US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
My reaction to this comment is surely Canada or Mexico is the greatest ally of the USA. But, indeed, that may no longer be true under Trump.
StayTrue··on Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone
Yikes – this GenXer remembers being told the tools found in my account were grounds for expulsion but the meeting ended with employment.
StayTrue··on How to Debounce a Contact (2014)
Agree. Helped me (a software guy) when I needed it. Automatic upvote.
StayTrue··on BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)
Technical debt has become a meaningless term.
StayTrue··on Ghost artists on Spotify
I just migrated my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. Cobbling together the scripts to do that (without paying a third party service) was hard.
StayTrue··on Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file search application
I assume it’s intentional.
StayTrue··on Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again
Is the Pi 500 fanless? Do I read that correctly?
StayTrue··on Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair
Long time fan I watched this video before it was struck and there was no infringement in the video unless opening a device and showing the inside constitutes infringement. Bad job YouTube.
StayTrue··on History of rat control in Alberta
For sure. In my experience there are two places I can go in Victoria and be guaranteed to find rats—one is the harbour.
StayTrue··on OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
Seems almost ideal if you don’t use it as an ethernet switch. A third radio for wireless mesh trunking is the only thing I see missing from my OpenWRT setup.
StayTrue··on Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
My DIY setup uses cameras on an isolated VLAN that prohibits outbound internet access, RTSP data collected by Frigate[0] with Coral TPU recognition, and alerts via Pushover[1] notifications. My push notifications include an unencrypted thumbnail with a link to Frigate that only works via VPN connection.

Seems like this project offers a lot of what I had to cobble together. Nice work. I like that it offers encrypted notifications although I don’t use Android so not ready for me yet. I don’t like the Google dependency.

[0] https://frigate.video/

[1] https://pushover.net/

StayTrue··on Prusa Core One
Nice that they explicitly state the printer is fully functional even if you don't connect it to the network.
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