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Daniel Quinn

@ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

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Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

  • How do you effectively backup your high capacity (20+ TB) local NAS?

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  • Honestly, I'd buy 6 external 20tb drives and make 2 copies of your data on it (3 drives each) and then leave them somewhere-safe-but-not-at-home. If you have friends or family able to store them, that'd do, but also a safety deposit box is good.

    If you want to make frequent updates to your backups, you could patch them into a Raspberry Pi and put it on Tailscale, then just rsync changes every regularly. Of course means that wherever youre storing the backup needs room for such a setup.

    I often wonder why there isn't a sort of collective backup sharing thing going on amongst self hosters. A sort of "I'll host your backups if you host mine" sort of thing. Better than paying a cloud provider at any rate.

  • Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI

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  • The Guardian has effectively got rid of 100 journalists. We actually leave the building next week. And shortly afterwards, it signed a syndication deal with OpenAI. Or as I think of it, it married its rapist

    That's from the tail end of Carole Cadwalladr's recent TED talk called This is What A Digital Coup Looks Like.

  • A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple

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  • Wait, what?

  • Canada must strengthen its China EV deal to protect autoworkers

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  • *its

  • Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna - BBC News

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  • We shouldn't be in Eurovision. If the UK had any self respect, we'd be boycotting it like Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia.

  • Brushing fraud: Britons told to beware of mystery parcels as new scam soars

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  • All the pearl-clutching about how the product you receive may not adhere to good quality standards ignores the fact that "legitimate" companies like Hobbycraft were selling asbestos-laden products to kids right out of the brick and mortar stores until about a month ago.

  • How do you guys get around/to places?

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  • You know, I read that book as a kid 'cause my grandmother came to visit annoyed that I'd published a book and not told her. I think was 17 at the time.

    It was one of those books that really got to me though. It changed my entire worldview and I still think of it from time to time. I'm now 46.

  • How do you guys get around/to places?

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  • You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don't want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn't car dependent or you're gonna have a Bad Time™.

    I grew up in a car-dependent suburban shithole called Langley, and moved to Vancouver at the earliest opportunity where I could commute via transit, scooter, or bike. Every time I moved after that (7 different cities so far) it's been to places where I can safely walk, cycle, and/or take transit because not being car-dependent was a high priority for me.

    I should also point out that this decision, while resulting in higher rent & mortgages than if I'd chosen suburban life, has meant I've not spent the roughly $10k annually to maintain a car, which meant that I could afford a to buy a good-sized home in a bike-friendly city. We expect to pay off the mortgage this year.

    Car-free really is what it says on the tin: freedom.

  • My opinon of AI has changed

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  • To add to your list:

    Delegating of a task to a third party allocates control of how that task is done to said party. They can:

    • Vary the cost (not like you know how to do it anymore)
    • Modify the result to suit their economic/political preferences
    • Refuse to perform the task or deliberately sabotage the output if the task contradicts their interest.

    "Hey robot, build an app that helps people fight fascism"

    LOL no.

  • Mattermost is no longer Open-Source

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  • From a read of that issue, it looks like it never was.

  • Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?

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  • This is just an attempt to avoid jury nullification verdicts on cases like Palestine Action and JSO.

  • More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

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  • Is this the same service where someone pointed out that the skills library was riddled with malicious code, and the response was akin to "yeah, nothing we can do about that"?

  • The City of Chicago will allow residents to issue parking tickets

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  • ‘First Nations Would Not Exist Without Canada,’ Rustad Tells Crowd

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  • I think he meant that if the US had just taken the entire continent rather than having to share it with Canada, they would have been even more ruthless in their genocide than we were.

    He's probably right, but saying it that way betrays how truly broken his worldview is.

  • London's Most Controversial Cyclist - Lemmy: Bestiverse

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  • Absolute hero.

  • Canada’s 10x funding increase to the European Space Agency builds bridges across the Atlantic and the solar system

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  • FUCK YEAH! LET'S DO SOME MOTHERFUCKING SPACE STUFF!*

    *To be clear, I say this unironically.

  • Goodbye EV sales mandate. Hello purchase rebates. Carney shakes up Canada's auto industry

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  • Lemme guess: still no assistance for purchasing e-bikes or cargo bikes?

  • Are there any lightweight linux video editors?

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  • A thing

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  • Alternatives to Mattermost

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  • I keep seeing Zulip tossed around as an alternative, but I don't know what's up with their licencing. There's also Framateam, but I think that might just be Mattermost as a service.

    Matrix would be great if it wasnt so user-hostile, but it is :-(

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Asbestos found in children’s play sand sold in UK

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/jan/24/childrens-play-sand-hobbycraft-asbestos-removed-recall
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Happy New Year

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI is destroying your brain and everything else

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    CNBC Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What They Found Was Striking

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    The rise of Whatever

    eev.ee /blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI Agents: A Pox on Free Society

    danielquinn.org /blog/ai-agents-a-pox-on-free-society/
  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
    Daniel Quinn @lemmy.ca

    Has the Deck turned off any other Steam users?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Can you configure tmux to use "normal" modifier keys?

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    An app to post to an arbitrary URL?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.

    mastodon.social /@danielquinn/113494110913993635
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    How to find what's eating 100% of just one core?

  • macOS @lemmy.world
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    What's the best way to remote into a Mac?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    Some dude 3D printed a little house for his local frog

    mastodon.social /@MaaikeV/109937773609995007
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI

    hachyderm.io /@paulbiggar/111627367674590120
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Ash Vs Bash

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Daniel Quinn @lemmy.ca

    I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier

    gitlab.com /danielquinn/video-bypass