rbos

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

envirnonment

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

It became a running joke (at least in my circles) that if you want to spot a Canadian, look for a Roots bag or MEC gear. Only Americans would wear a Canadian flag. Though this was before Roots enshittified and offshored all their manufacturing to China, and before MEC dissolved their co-op through evil shenanigans and went privately-owned.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The grocery we use keeps boxes by the checkout. Saves them throwing them out, since they get hundreds from suppliers.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

It's not even that it's low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it's been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.

It's the pig-ignorant newbies thinking "hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech". Hard drives are also 1970s tech.

They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They're not well suited for situations where you can't guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.

But for some situations, it's indispensable.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

"The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk's vehicle. made news by "discovering" the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage)."

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly I don't care enough. If I happen to be in the interface I'll probably turn it off, sure. It doesn't inform any decisions, I barely register that the number exists.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Perhaps not. My subjective experience of my Withings scale is that the reported fat percentage has at least remained where I've expected given my general activity level. ie, fat percentage goes up when I'm sedentary, down when I'm active.

But it's more a curiosity than a useful metric regardless.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They're not accurate but I think they can at least track trends consistently. A clock that's five hours ahead still tells you how much time has passed relative to itself. Similarly a scale might tell you what direction your fat level is trending.

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

Wouldn't the authentication API provided by your DNS host be the ACME server?

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can only wish you good luck.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Aren't IRAs a US tax account? Like the Canadian TFSA.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

I didn't make any such claims. Though arguably what you consider junk food and what I consider junk food may be completely different. I have no interest in digging down into that.

Yes, flour has some trace simple sugar in it. I only said I don't add sugar to mine. Yeast will happily break down starches into simple sugars, and the end result will have some sugar. The exact percentage will depend on fermentation time.

The Irish case had bread reaching 10% by weight flour of sugar. They certainly added it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919189045/for-subway-a-ruling-not-so-sweet-irish-court-says-its-bread-isnt-bread

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah. For wildcard DNS from letsencrypt, you can't do HTTP validation, only DNS, which involves creating a TXT record.

Your DNS provider needs to run an ACME server, which runs an API that'll add the required TXT records on request.

As I understand it.

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