[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Nvidia acquired 3DFX so it's been coming for a while

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago

Always use containers.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago

Trudeau has to go. Jagmeet also. (Before the federal election)

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Makes sense and form that perspective you're absolutely right. I wish people understood it's better for them when someone else in the working class is paid more. But for that to be commonplace, the idea that people aren't necessarily paid what they deserve has to take hold.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Are you talking about people in r/CanadaPost hating on posties for making more than minimum wage? 🥹

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think we focus on wealth inequality lately because we're all on the same page about income inequality, and also because a common argument against income inequality is that "but their income isn't that huge, they just have investments." Wealth inequality deals with that ackchyuallity.

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The Teamsters union has served Canadian National Railway (CN) with a 72-hour strike notice, hours after saying it was taking down picket lines and workers were returning to the job.

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Albertan minister, a Chamber of Commerce guy and a CN rail official. No union representation. This is a bit shameful from the CBC. At least the interviewer did ask a few questions on behalf of labor.

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I asked a relative to look for RealVNC on the Play Store and install it. Once they were done, I asked them to fulfill a basic task inside RealVNC and they were really confused by my instructions. I took a look at their phone, lo and behold, they had installed a different app. I asked them to repeat the install procedure while I watched. They punched in "realvnc" in the search box, two identically formatted results appeared. Their finger instinctively clicked the Install button on the top result. It was an ad. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

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Labour Minister Randy Boissonnault is considering "a refusal to process in the low wage stream if the abuse and misuse does not improve," said labour ministry spokesperson Mathis Denis.

Considering eh?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 149 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Requires kernel-level access. Also AMD is "releasing mitigations," so is it "unfixable?"

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Link to poll

It seems like "radical left policies" are supported by a significant majority of Americans.

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It's fairly obvious why stopping a service while backing it up makes sense. Imagine backing up Immich while it's running. You start the backup, db is backed up, now image assets are being copied. That could take an hour. While the assets are being backed up, a new image is uploaded. The live database knows about it but the one you've backed up doesn't. Then your backup process reaches the new image asset and it copies it. If you restore this backup, Immich will contain an asset that isn't known by the database. In order to avoid scenarios like this, you'd stop Immich while the backup is running.

Now consider a system that can do instant snapshots like ZFS or LVM. Immich is running, you stop it, take a snapshot, then restart it. Then you backup Immich from the snapshot while Immich is running. This should reduce the downtime needed to the time it takes to do the snapshot. The state of Immich data in the snapshot should be equivalent to backing up a stopped Immich instance.

Now consider a case like above without stopping Immich while taking the snapshot. In theory the data you're backing up should represent the complete state of Immich at a point in time eliminating the possibility of divergent data between databases and assets. It would however represent the state of a live Immich instance. E.g. lock files, etc. Wouldn't restoring from such a backup be equivalent to kill -9 or pulling the cable and restarting the service? If a service can recover from a cable pull, is it reasonable to consider it should recover from restoring from a snapshot taken while live? If so, is there much point to stopping services during snapshots?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 183 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm sorry what? Is he using the distinction between donating to a PAC and a candidate as cover? 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

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The investment preserves about 1,800 jobs in Oakville, plus Ford will add 150 workers at a Windsor, Ontario, engine plant and about 70 positions at some U.S. component factories.

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VP candidate and MP Jamil Jivani bonded over being outsiders at a top U.S. law school

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Looking at any interesting effects of propylene glycol in vaginal lubricants I stumbled upon this study. Then I found it isn't the only one pointing to hyperosmolal lubes causing damage to the epithelium either.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 159 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is how you get Christians to lobby for no religion in schools.

Now if there's an imam to step forward, we could really accelerate this process.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 281 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

“Despite the company’s stellar performance and record earnings, many Googlers have not received meaningful compensation increases” a top-rated employee question read. “When will employee compensation fairly reflect the company’s success and is there a conscious decision to keep wages lower due to a cooling employment market?”

With this leadership, when you unionize. It's literally what they're for.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 169 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's an extreme example that perfectly illustrates how profit is extracted from employees by the employers. He didn't have any leverage to get a larger share of the profit from his labor, as is the case with most employees. You could call it toxic behavior, and it is, but it's the expected behavior, the behavior incentivised by the system.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 185 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pot, meet kettle.

To add to this, at least Android being open source allows for alternative versions that can be used on some hardware that truly don't track and can be consistently supported long term. With Apple's devices, that's not a practical option.

Edit:

From the news today:

Google’s relationship with Apple is particularly significant given its unilateral access to iPhone customers. Internal Google notes of a meeting between Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook released Monday by the DOJ give an interesting insight into that relationship. The meeting, which began as a discussion of the regulatory environment in D.C. eventually turned toward the question of Google’s place as the default search engine on Apple products.

Cook, according to the notes, told Pichai he believes the two companies were “deep partners; deeply connected where our services end and yours begin.” In another note from the meeting, Pichai reportedly said, “Our vision is that we work as if we are one company.” Pichai tried to distance himself from that line during this testimony on Monday.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

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