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They’ve now had nomad-native services without consul for a while, including health checks!

While I sympathize with the issue and have experienced similar problems with classical music, I found the listing of composers and the holier-than-thou attitude (because “pop is ba…

In the Canadian university lingo, co-op refers to a (usually paid) internship that you complete as part of your degree. You usually have a couple co-op terms/semesters along with y…

If not using something like bind, but willing to run a dedicated dns server for acme challenges, acmedns offers something similar. When you generate a new account, it gets given a …

Curl always requires -L to follow redirects.

I’ve seen them in stores in Canada, but they’re usually more expensive than the 454g blocks. Expensive enough that it’s usually better to buy the block and portion it as needed.

Some people I know are building a similar system, watching for the printers that parking attendants carry to issue tickets. When they see one of those nearby, it starts the clock s…

Anything that ends in .gov is related to a government entity in the US. Other countries don’t get access to that TLD.

Where it’s the law for the lodging provides to have a copy of ID, you either consent to have them make a copy of your ID or you don’t get a place to stay. You don’t get to not cons…

Canadian numbers too (and potentially anything in the NANP).

Parcels are not mail. Parcels are the boxes of stuff that people order. While spam funds a lot of the postal service, it allows it to price mail lower than the true cost of deliver…

Wasn’t there a study that identified that college educated individuals are more likely to be Democrats? Most US government jobs require a college degree (or higher), so it wouldn’t…

But naming your kids to positions of power because they’re your kids is nepotism.

They also partner with transit agencies where the transit agencies pays them to upgrade everyone in the region/system to the premium offering, and the transit app becomes the offic…

Likely the second one, things like “take that container and drop it off on that truck, but don’t log it”

I’ve experienced the situation where my partner gets lower rates than I do on nearly all ride sharing apps. We’ll open the app at the same time, from the same place, heading to the…

There’s a burger chain called The Works that accepts (or at least used to) Canadian Tire money for one of their burgers. The burger is called the Crappy Tire, which is a nickname f…

Proxmox puts the VM configuration information in a SQLite database and exposes it through a FUSE file system. It even gets replicated across the cluster using their replication alg…

There’s actually a ton of interference in the 2.4 GHz space, especially at venues like outdoor festivals. However your solution does work. I work at a festival that provides a WiFi…

I switched my home lab to nomad, which I find much easier to wrangle, but we’ll see what happens with the IBM acquisition.

Another hypothetical: your isp zero rates the news sites with a given political leaning, but not yours. Reading the news that they want you to costs nothing, whereas reading the ne…

Mostly to have a hazmat route around the city (HAZMAT trucks aren’t allowed in the tunnels) and because bridges are cheaper than tunnels. They needed a third crossing because the t…

Many Logitech peripherals have Turing-complete chips (ARM processors), but no one is claiming that my mouse is a general purpose computing devices. Apple is selling a system made o…

It has a live migration feature so I’m going to go with yes.

Some things like car insurance are a legally mandated purchase from a private business.