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This was a temporary measure for a couple vintages/years after a frost decimated nearly all the vines in the BC Okanagan. The regulators stepped in to allow relaxed importation rules to help wineries survive. A winery like Mission Hill typically grows and sources all of its grapes within BC.

You can still get a long exposure by accumulating many 1/5,000 exposure shots together. Just like a regular long exposure, this will still cancel out random noise and improve SNR, and also still has the tradeoff of motion blur. This kind of accumulation is commonly done in photography-adjacent technologies like spectroscopy.

Regardless, I agree with your larger point that the proposed system would be entirely impractical!

Flock is such a scummy company. One must just read a bit of the coverage from 404 Media [1] or Benn Jordan [2] and get a whiff of how this company is handling pretty legitimate criticism about privacy and basic device security.

[1] https://www.404media.co/tag/flock/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@BennJordan/search?query=flock

This is interesting. Do you have any specific examples?

Same same. I'd been a die hard mac user since System 6 in the early 90s, but last year I switched to Asahi Linux and my next hardware may or may not be from Apple.

Is there a reason to use Gonic instead of Navidrome? I've been using the latter for hosting my music collection for over a year now and really like it. Good riddance Spotify. [1]

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more choices. But it seems like you have opinions on this topic and I'd like to hear them.

[1] See my blog post from a while back: https://lukecyca.com/2025/listen-to-music-like-its-2005.html

Same. It looks like battery replacement from ifixit is not too difficult, so I plan to do that when the time comes.

Incidentally, I just switched to Asahi Linux, but that was for software quality and openness reasons, rather than anything to do with performance.

The new rules will be incorporated into tzdata, which is used for various operating systems, software libraries, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

Didn't work in my browser. I degoogled long ago. :shrug:

I’m with Freedom Mobile in Vancouver, currently using a rather old iPhone. My next phone will probably run GOS.

I have issues with Freedom on my iPhone too. Poor signal, or else “good” signal but poor data backhaul.

Are you pretty sure your issues went away after going back to stock Android? Or is it possible it’s just Freedom Mobile’s general issues?

I did a detailed review of a few Canadian VPS providers last year.

https://lukecyca.com/2025/canadian-vps-review.html

Last year, I moved from DigitalOcean to FullHost (their Vancouver datacentre) for hosting a small SaaS and a bunch of personal projects. It's cheaper and FAR better performance.

Me too. I’ve been an Apple fan for 3 decades, and the Mac has always been my daily driver.

Up until this past November when I installed Asahi and haven’t looked back. It’s been tough work switching, but the writing’s been on the wall for a while now, so best get started.

Also been hit with this using DHL. Doing trade with the USA is such a gamble now with so much uncertainty.

Suit yourself. I think a little whimsy is refreshing.

Finally!

Here is a delightful article from NYT from last year on this topic. Truly fascinating and bewildering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennie...

These ones, right?

https://us.isseymiyake.com/products/hp56-jf362

An automated batch job started failing for us recently, and we found that it is because this source of randomness from NIST has been shut down "Due to a lapse in federal funding".

> it deviates a bit from what might be the most common setup, but it's undoubtedly me

This is delightful. Personal projects are a great place to buck the technical monoculture and try something unique. I really enjoyed reading this.

This entire blog really resonates. I don't take it all literally, but it is funny and insightful and dark and poetic and accurate in many ways.

More weird stuff like this please.

installer -pkg InstallMe.pkg

Check out `man installer` for details.

Been self-hosting for over 15 years for both personal and professional email, including clients. Currently using docker-mailserver. The claims that deliverability is worse when self-hosting are greatly exaggerated. It's not perfect, but it's certainly no worse than Gmail or Google Workspace for business.

Over on lobste.rs somebody mentioned this one which looks great.

https://freerangecloud.com/

There's also OVH which is French-owned (I think) but has some Canadian datacentres.

Love that this is hosted on a bare IP address. Hack on!

But when you say "the second way" are you counting from zero or from one?

Curious how you have all this set up. This architecture makes a lot of sense but it seems a bit fiddly to set up. Do you manage routes, IPs, and ports manually or is there some magic docker thingy that facilitates this architecture?

Personally I currently just use DDNS for stuff hosted on consumer connections (AKA home lab). And docker nginx-proxy to multiplex various self-hosted web apps (either in a home lab or on a VPS).

Did I miss this part of the article or are you seeing this elsewhere? Care to give a link or two?

This is great. I rewrote it in my own words and sent it to my local Canadian MP, as well as Dominic LeBlanc who is the Minister of Public Safety.

Here's my template:

I am a Canadian citizen in your riding (A1B 2C3) and multiple business owner in the technology sector.

As an expert in the field of electronics and information security, I am concerned about the ISED’s initiative to ban Flipper Zero and similar devices, announced at: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/02/f...

The Flipper Zero is a general-purpose tool for engineering and information security research. By banning the device, we will be doing a disservice to our country’s practitioners in these fields, while doing little to thwart car thefts.

If possession of a device like Flipper Zero is the enabler for car theft, then it leads me to believe that such cars had negligently insecure encryption from the day they were manufactured, and a recall of such cars would be more appropriate.

That's the press secretary.

A better contact is Dominic LeBlanc, and your local MP.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/dominic-leblanc(1813)