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observantTrapezium

@ observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

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  • How come people want to work?

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  • There are jobs with flexible hours and partial or full work from home arrangements, and more importantly jobs where you can feel some amount of purpose and personal growth instead of just making money (mostly for someone else, i.e. shareholders). To get such a job you might have to get some specialized skill, or just get lucky.

  • Tesla owner blocked the Toronto Streetcar

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  • This happens every fucking winter and not just with these trash cans but all cars. In most of our streets the streetcars don't have a dedicated and separated lane (or signal priority), making them pretty much just worse buses that stop in the middle of the street, making you cross a car lane on the way to the sidewalk.

  • Storing encryption keys for backup drives

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  • Personally I don't go with full disk encryption for backups. I use Borg that encrypts its repositories on a plain ext4 partition, and the key is saved in the config file (wrapped in passphrase of course). Obviously it just moved the problem of what to do with the passphrase... I also have Vaultwarden (with a separate backup mechanism).

  • When you remake the Rosetta Stone as a Linux meme

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  • That's definitely quantity over quality

  • Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker

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  • Hey, hope you are recovering from this ordeal. I attribute some of the oddities in your post to panicked writing, but it would be great if you can clarify these points:

    listed as .BRM for windows 6

    What does that mean?

    As soon as they saw me, they wiped everything from my home folder, everything that wasn’t a base part of kde was gone

    What do you mean base part of KDE? Did they delete more than just the home directory?

    because since they schroot, none of those processes were available to me to view

    Why wouldn't you be able to view processes running in schroot? Doesn't it use the same pid namespace and uses the same /proc as the init process?

    I went digging and found the schroot under /run/ I took a look at the properties and the env showed 128.7TB of storage

    You wrote in a comment "that was the server farm rooted into me". Why do you think that is the case?

    Also, it's not quite clear what the screenshots are meant to show. The first two are a list of files in your home directory, showing it's not empty. So did they wipe everything or not? How are we supposed to know what those files are and what you expect should be there... And then the other screenshots are of you trying to recover files from the disk image.

    I understand if you don't, but do you actually have any evidence of an attack? Like cellphone video of the screen while you are seeing suspicious activity on Wireshark? I can definitely understand being more concerned with minimizing the damage once you realize files are being deleted than gathering evidence. But can you for example fish out that .dll file from the disk image?

  • I've Hit The Perfect Weight

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  • Same 😜

  • I've Hit The Perfect Weight

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  • It's not the perfect weight unless you are between 2.23 and 2.58 metres tall...

  • Float, Wise, Koho, Paramount, and Brim join Payments Canada | BetaKit

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  • Funny, just yesterday I noticed I could add money to Wise by paying it as a bill through some banks (cost seems $0.31 flat, way better than even Interac).

  • 3.7 magnitude earthquake reported near Orillia

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  • Didn't feel a thing downtown TO.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux"

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  • I watched 28 minutes and decided I'm gonna let this show go. I feel like I gave it a shot, the first two episodes weren't terrible. I wouldn't even say this episode was terrible (the ½ I watched), I just got very bored.

    If like Lower Decks this show turns around to be great, do let me know and I might go back and watch it.

  • Guess Carney really pissed off the orange turd.

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  • 👏 On behalf of the Prime Minister I wholeheartedly accept the uninvitation!

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Had to think about it... The answer is nowhere. I built my digital life around Linux for 23 years.

  • 17 per cent of Americans want the U.S. to annex Canada: survey

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  • I'd challenge this 17% to tell us three things they know about Canada that aren't sports related.

  • And that would early

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  • I'm from English speaking Canada and I'm doubling down on 24h and metric.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • Episode 1: with expectations at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (because I watched Discovery), I was not too disappointed by this episode. Was it good? Also no. I think the story is fine in principle, it doesn't unfold in a believable way, but not the worst we've seen in Star Trek. Other than that I was irked by what the captain says at 41:55:

    make eh(?) your speed maximum impolt

    Really, impolt, you couldn't do a second take on that?

    Episode 2: quite a bit worse, the plot progressed for like 3 minutes in total, and there was a lot of that teen drama that wasn't interesting or amusing.

    Overall felt like these were written by people who know a lot about Star Trek at a very surface level, and have a very TV-idea of what college life is like. I'll keep watching, for now. Out of franchise loyalty more than actual interest.

  • Once beset by pollution, Beijing's skies are clearer than ever thanks to EVs

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  • "Thanks to EV" → annoying oversimplification. As even this biased article states "The change has been a result of government policy focusing on smog reductions, including restrictions on heavy industry". One should also add expansion of public transit services to the mix of factors.

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • Agree except that having your web crawler hiding itself by pretending to be Googlebot is bad. Preferable to Google search monopoly. For search, Brave is not actually a terrible option (but I won't touch the browser with a 3 metre pole)

  • Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox

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  • I have elaborate Procmail rules that sort out the mail. It's not a very modern solution and the syntax is quite horrible, but it works quite well.

  • Run tor-browser as another user ??

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  • I think that's the issue. It's xhost + if I remember correctly.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    I fixed a leak with Babybel cheese

  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    Life, uh, finds a way in the wetlands

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    Time to double down on the metric system

    www.cbc.ca /player/play/video/9.6694195
  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    'Star Trek' now a Canadian enterprise. What made it so?

    toronto.citynews.ca /2025/01/03/star-trek-now-a-canadian-enterprise-what-made-it-so/
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    TIL that Inuvik, NWT is the largest town in Canada whose antipodal point lies within Antarctica