thesh4d0w (u/thesh4d0w)

thesh4d0w commented on Is Tim Hortons Canadian? cbc.ca/lite/story/1.74854... · Posted by u/colinprince

fourteenfour · 6 months ago

From the article: Owned by Restaurant Brands International of which the Brazilian investment firm 3G owns ~25%, Canadian groups own ~25% and the two US groups mentioned own ~15% together. Local employment, Toronto HQ and regionally sourced supplies are keeping it more "Canadian."

thesh4d0w · 6 months ago

My experience in Vancouver is that Tim Hortons are full of TFW's and not local employees at all.

https://www.insauga.com/canadian-tim-hortons-locations-are-h...

thesh4d0w commented on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe? bbc.com/news/articles/cq6... · Posted by u/justin66

touisteur · 6 months ago

You can get a very accurate timestamp from GNSS. What lots of people do then is slave a PLL based on a local oscillator, to be able to get time between two GNSS captations. Or to be able to extrapolate when they have no GNSS signal.

Now suppose someone is spoofing your GNSS signals, it's pretty hard to replace a constellation with another one whilst maintaining time consistency for you. One way to detect spoofing is comparing what a local clock is saying to whatever the GNSS is giving. A local, unfudgeable, stable, accurate clock is a good reference for this.

thesh4d0w · 6 months ago

Ahhhhh, that makes sense. Treating this as security mechanism rather than an anti-jamming one.

thesh4d0w commented on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe? bbc.com/news/articles/cq6... · Posted by u/justin66

thesh4d0w · 6 months ago

I don't understand this article. If the GPS signals are jammed, what purpose does it serve to have an atomic clock on board your plane? You still need accurate signals with time data to measure against.

Am I missing something?

thesh4d0w commented on Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie atlassian.com/blog/announ... · Posted by u/anurag

rdsubhas · 6 months ago

EDIT:::: The title submitted (End of support) is a bit misleading. It's set to April 2027. I've left my original message here for brevity. Not all of it is valid, but some is.

Super bizarre. We're a large Opsgenie customer. The Opsgenie website or mobile apps never showed any notice, not even as of now. The "Announcements" section in the mobile and web apps as I'm writing reads a feature announcement: "Coming soon: Simplified integration setup experience!"

Our customer relationship nor billing teams never received any communication.

Atlassian — we don't mind you sunsetting any product, that's fine. But honestly, your paying customers shouldn't get to know this from a blog post in social media, especially for an On-call emergency product.

I wouldn't trust any product from Atlassian after this fiasco.

thesh4d0w · 6 months ago

> We will be reaching out via email to provide a tailored recommendation for each Opsgenie site, highlighting the best fit for your team.

> Opsgenie end of support – effective April 5th, 2027:

A public post followed up by them reaching out individually (which takes time) along with a 2 year grace period, seems pretty reasonable?

thesh4d0w commented on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM cbc.ca/news/politics/trud... · Posted by u/sirteno

beaned · 8 months ago

As someone with no knowledge of the topic, why was electrical reform needed? Wouldn't one assume that either party motivated to do it while in power would be doing it with the goal of positively affecting the outcome for their party in the future? It would seem weird for a candidate to reform how voting works knowing it could negatively affect their side, right?

thesh4d0w · 8 months ago

We have two left parties that votes are split across, and a single right party.

This means the conservative party often ends up getting more power since they're "first past the post" even though the majority of the population may not agree with them.

thesh4d0w commented on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM cbc.ca/news/politics/trud... · Posted by u/sirteno

thesh4d0w · 8 months ago

> Trudeau, who is now answering questions from reporters, said his one regret of his premiership has been his failure to introduce electoral reform.

Oh please, you had lots of time to address this and instead you've just handed us to the conservatives.

thesh4d0w commented on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers" mastodon.social/@kiwix/11... · Posted by u/_5euu

9cb14c1ec0 · 9 months ago

You have to compare the actually performance of the dedi or VM. Cheap dedis and VMs are usually old, cheap hardware with relatively bad performance. I'm running a 20 core, 96 GB ram, 8TB colocated server for $55/month.

thesh4d0w · 9 months ago

Where are you getting colo space that cheap? I'm moving a non-profit off OVH and onto dedicated and I'm looking at $150/month Canadian for 2u + 400w.

Also, don't forget about hardware acquisition costs, upgrades over time, replacement hardware and downtime due to outages, etc.

thesh4d0w commented on Ask HN: Can you recommend a PCB designer? · Posted by u/zkirill

thesh4d0w · a year ago

I've had decent luck with random people on Fiverr, of all things...

thesh4d0w commented on Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system hackaday.com/2024/09/12/r... · Posted by u/kwiens

kwiens · a year ago

We designed the system to work for people at a variety of price points.

If you just buy the iron, you have access to all the settings in our web console: https://www.ifixit.com/fixhub/console

The iron persists settings when you unplug it. You can change the sleep timer and timeout, set target temperatures, calibrate the accelerometer, and more.

The Power Station is nice to have, but you don't lose any functionality without it.

thesh4d0w · a year ago

I was a kickstarter backer of the pokit who thought "oh that's cool", and it just sits in my drawer because I don't want to have to use an app to use basic functionality on my tools. I learned my lesson on that one and I know if I bought this soldering iron I would have the same issue. I'd rather use other soldering irons because I don't have to plug them into my computer to change the temperature between tasks.

FWIW this is just my $0.02. I'm sure you'll still sell lots, but if that had an onboard display + buttons then I'd have ordered one right away for the other nice tweaks you've done.

thesh4d0w commented on Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system hackaday.com/2024/09/12/r... · Posted by u/kwiens

thesh4d0w · a year ago

The 100w and heat resistant storage caps are nice, but that battery pack pricing and the lack of on-device controls makes this not an option for me.

$110 cad for the soldering iron is semi-reasonable, if a bit high compared to their competitors. $342 for the iron + battery means that's a $230 battery pack, which is absolutely insane.

Requiring the battery pack to be able to easily change controls means anyone doing more than super basic work, needs the $342 combo.