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Standing on the breaks frequently is how you end up with warped rotors, so there's some nuance here. Once in a while will stop rust and guck building up, frequently and you're replacing the discs early.

They work best for things that a human has to move, and since a good chunk of humans (at least in US/CA) have iPhones, the movement of the physical thing will be tracked by an iPhone fairly reliably. Any time the critter is outside the range of an i-device picking it up the location will be stale. There isn't really a way around that, since GPS/5G radios are a lot more power hungry than the occasional bluetooth pings an airtag broadcasts.

Isn't massive tech conglomerates locking people into their ecosystems how we got here in the first place? The quest to replace US with EU products is really just treating symptoms of the problems that tech has created in the past 2-3 decades.

Exchange online is down down. All the MX records are returning SERVFAIL, so something has gone quite badly on MS's side. It could be load shedding, or their authoritative DNS has blown up.

IMAP seems to also be having some sort of problem... Thunderbird has been stuck at "Looking up outlook.office365.com..." for a while.

American trade policy has gone so far in the direction of Mercantilism that both the Neoliberal and the Keynesian economists can agree on something. That's not a good thing.

I don't think anybody would earnestly argue that anything is "completely safe" because that's not how risk management works.

The exhaust of 250 years of fossil fuel energy production is stored in your lungs and bloodstream. It kills five million people every year. As bad as some of the nuclear accidents have been, it's minuscule compared to what happens on a daily basis in the oil/gas/coal industry.

Not really... Most F150s have a 5.5' bed which is pathetically small. You can't fit a sheet of plywood or a 2x4 in there without having the tailgate down. You can only really buy full-sized long box trucks if you're part of a fleet program.

Most professional builders drive big Savannah vans, which can not only carry full sheets of plywood, but also keep them dry. Plus, the front blindspot is less than one meter.

I don't disagree about transit though.

I think the niche for EV's in Canada will be regional-ish transportation... I would love to see a network of chargers that fully cover the Trans-Canada Highway, but there are still some pretty significant gaps, for example Hwy 17 - If even one of the stations goes down you'd be stranded.

But in that niche I can really see cheap EVs taking off. I know several people who live in Toronto whose cars have never been more than ~80 KM from home, and rarely been over 100 KM/h. That's a perfect EV user.

And a huge plus would be to get rid of the monster American trucks & SUVs that take four parking spots and two lanes at a time...

There are a massive amount of new EVs in Quebec, which isn't exactly tropical. Part of it is subsidies, $2K for new EV, and $600 for charging. The other thing is the crazy scale of hydroelectric production in that province, some of which gets exported as far as Baltimore. So electricity is very available and reasonably cheap in QC.

We'll see how BYD's handle the bone chilling Montreal winters... Unless they're an absolute flop, I can see some fairly solid future prospects.

(I live in Ontario, but I've been to Le Belle Province quite a bit ;) )

https://www.quebec.ca/en/transports/electric-transportation/...

https://www.quebec.ca/en/transports/electric-transportation/...

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

The reality probably isn't far off... I know in the past the "breaches of critical infrastructure" breathlessly reported by the media have actually just been wide-open SNMPv2 services using the default community string. I'm sure something similar happened here. Turns out you can just connect to port 161, press "power off," and be reported in the news as an "advanced persistent threat actor"

They do - well sort of.

The most essential check is SPF and DKIM which authenticate if the message has come from an authorized server. The problem is that most mail services are too lenient with mismatched sender identification. On one hand, people would be quite vocal about their mail provider sending way too much legitimate (but slightly misconfigured) mail to the spam folder. However it allows situations like to happen where the FROM header, the "From:" address, and the return path are all different.

Most mail systems have several stages of filters, and the first ones (checking authentication) are quite basic. After that, attachments, links, and contents are checked for known malware. Machine learning might kick in after this, if certain criteria are met. Mail security is very complicated and works well except for the times it falls flat on its face like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail

If I'm remembering correctly, it's because the previous government set the price floor to the average natural gas price, artificially propping up their north sea oil & gas industry that's been noncompetitive for decades. Even though they can make cheap energy, consumers get screwed because of national security concerns.

Unfortunately I don't have a source, and would appreciate a UK national with better understanding than me to chime in :)

GM-5 is probably the greatest pocket-size mirrorless, and maybe the last. The GX-85 is also great, but it does have a larger grip and more of a shoulder at the top.

The G-100D is also quite small, but the faux pentaprism at the top makes it just a bit too big to justify being MFT.

https://petapixel.com/2025/06/28/the-panasonic-lumix-gm-5-is...

This is a good thing. It might inconvenience some old suburban men that have no hobbies other than making their lawn look like astroturf, but those of us that breathe air regularly should be asking for this in their own jurisdiction.

Unlike your car, a four-stroke engine with a catalytic converter, a leaf blower is a two-stroke that burns oil by design. The amount of particulate emissions is hard to understate, and the amount of NOx these belch out is staggering. Asthma, cancer, heart disease, COPD, all are on the table with this type of system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stroke_engine#Emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx#Health_and_environment_eff...

I agree in theory, but doing so would have been very difficult practically. The IPv4 header structure is very rigid, and it wouldn't have been possible to just add more bits to the src/dst fields without breaking things. The only reasonable route I've seen would have been to add an "area code" or "country code" to the Options fields and have huge border routers to translate packets between different locales. It would have solved one problem, only by creating an arguably much worse one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Header https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_Options https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#/media/File:IPv4_Packet-e...

I agree, though it takes some discipline to keep it simple and small. It can be really easy to let your clusters get huge, tools get complex, operator sprawl, etc. but keeping it simple and understandable is worth it in the long term.

The biggest problem is that most of the popular tools are built for the target audience of "dedicated infra team", when in reality most k8s users don't really have that.

Yeah, I don't see a way to get around the fact that space is a fabulous insulator. That's precisely how expensive insulated drink containers work so well.

If it was just about cooling and power availability, you'd think people would be running giant solar+compute barges in international waters, but nobody is doing that. Even the "seasteading" guys from last decade.

These proposals, if serious, are just to avoid planning permission and land ownership difficulties. If unserious, it's simply to get attention. And we're talking about it, aren't we?

Call me old-school, but I really liked how EV certs looked in the browser. Same with the big green lock icon Firefox used to have. I know it's all theatrics at best and a scam at worst, but I really feel like it's a bit of a downgrade.

The correct way would be to publish packages on a proper registry/repository and install them with a package manager. For example, create a 3rd party Debian repository, and import the config & signing key on install. It's more work, sure, but it's been the best practice for decades and I don't see that changing any time soon.

A NAS will use a network file protocol (SMB/NFS/AFP/SFTP etc) to access data rather than direct disk access, so the types of failures are different. Generally you don't really have to "eject" but disconnecting during a large transfer can cause incomplete writes.

The main risk with directly attached storage is that most kernels will do "buffered writes" where the data is written to memory before it's committed to disk. Yanking the drive before writes are synced properly will obviously cause data loss, so ejecting is always a good idea.

Generally, NAS is a bit safer for this type of storage because the protocols are built with the assumption that the network can and will be interrupted. As a result, things are a bit slower since you're dealing with network overhead. So, like everything, there are some trade-offs to be made.

Yeah, this is textbook "shadow IT" that could easily lead to something going seriously wrong. It's a fun example, but not something to aspire to.

Ultimately the problem is that in a lot of big corps, IT is basically unaccountable for setting things up wrong. Their only KPI is tickets closed, not the quality or success rate of their fixes.

Chopping the plug is a very good idea, everybody should practice that.

I once had a recurring problem with patch cables between workstations and drops going bad, four or five in one area that had never had that failure rate before. Turns out, every time I replaced one somebody else would grab the "perfectly good" patch cable from the trash can beside my desk. God knows why people felt compelled to do that when they already had perfectly good wires, maybe they thought because it was a different colour it would make their PC faster... So, now every time I throw out a cable that I know to be defective, I always pop the ends off. No more "mystery" problems.

Heh, very true. These days most new cars have a 1.0-1.5 turbo (or hybrid) rather than a larger 2.0 NA. And even 20 years ago most European cars were around 1.5 or less because of their higher fuel prices and registration taxes.

I'm a bit spoiled with the beefy 2.5 in my Mazda... Though it's still about 480 HP less than this beast ;)

When cost and reliability is no concern, you can do truly crazy things...

> 2.0-liter boxer engine ... 670 horsepower and 680 lb-ft of torque

Those are V10 numbers coming from something the size you'd find in an econo-box.

Obviously unlike your Camry this thing is not going to do 300,000 KMs over its lifetime, and will be rebuilt frequently. This is the extreme end of the engineering tradeoff, and it's interesting to see what happens when the scale tips all the way over.

It's funny, because it's also one of the most "gotcha-filled" things you can do. Click the wrong box, and they'll stick you in a seat with no leg room or make you pay extra for a carry-on bag. I have very little confidence that an AI would be able to make the "correct" choice on an airline ticket consistently without making a rather impactful mistake.

All you need to know about Toronto is that the generational effort to build a raccoon-resistant trash can has failed every time. They're unstoppable beasts!

Example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/raccoon-resistant-bin...

Ah, interesting. Much more complicated than I'd think, especially as somebody not from those parts.

https://xkcd.com/1739/ - but with "terraforming"

No wonder the lake is drying up with so much irrigation for agriculture, and an absurd number of golf courses in a very small area.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@33.6867973,-116.2608676,25994m

It's clear to me as an outsider that California has serious water sustainability problems. I mean, how long can this last?

That was exactly the goal with the Buffalo Bicycle project, and I'd say it worked pretty well. Make a bike that's mechanically simple & reliable, maintainable with common tools, and train technicians to fix and upkeep them. Basically create the Toyota Landcruiser of bikes. I kind of want one, even though it's a "bad" bike by the standards of most western audiences (heavy, slow, ugly, etc)

https://buffaloride.org/buffalobicycle https://worldbicyclerelief.org/product-development/

Nextcloud, and before it Owncloud, have been "in production" in my household for nearly a decade at this point. There have been some botched updates and sync problems over the years, but it's been by far the most reliable app I've hosted.

In terms of privacy & security, like everything it comes down to risk model and the trade-offs you make to exist in the modern world. Nextcloud is for sharing files, if nothing short of perfect E2EE is tolerable it's probably not the solution for you, not to mention the other 99.999% of services out there.

I think most of the problems people report come down to really bad defaults that let it run like shit on very low-spec boxes that shouldn't be supported (ie raspi gen 1/2 back in the day). Installing redis and configuring php-fpm correctly fixes like 90% of the problems, other than the bloated Javascript as mentioned in the op.

End of the day, it's fine. Not perfect, not ideal, but fine.