You found a solution and you are looking for a problem.

This is not the way it goes. You identify a problem, and if the solution involves self-hosting then you solve it with self-hosting.

I like how you’re looking at newest stats and suggesting a trend based on it; but ignoring the existing trend. Seems sketchy, but stay the course.

Ontario has the higher number of cases, thanks to - checks notes - THREE TIMES THE POPULATION.

Wait. Ontario has 25% more cases at 3.2x the population. Per capita - the only number that matters - the infection rate is almost 3 times as high in Alberta.

Mostly unvaccinated chucklefucks.

I can only listen to this presenter for a short time anyway. The vocal fry gets to me pretty quickly.

You’re gonna get a bike-splanation on that.

It’s funny that our college-like businesses are crutching on foreign students to stay afloat; and if they dry up a bit, people are pissed that they have to find a new way to keep education running as a for-profit business without the understanding that running as such is wrong.

Tax the rich. Run the schools. Go find a Viking nation and ask them how they managed since forever.

Yep. But owncloud went from old and idle to active again. It seems to be a more LTS take on it where NextCloud is your All Features Faster mandate.

Just show me the one that doesn’t rely on containers, venvs, npm or other supply-chain risks.

Yep, two reasons I’m out.

The last month or so haven’t been good for Mark’s electability. He should really lay low a bit until the attack ad potential dies down. I’d hate to see more morons choosing Milhouse.

(I haven’t seen a good explanation of why we needed to increase the public sector by 20% since then, nor of what we got out of that. If you have anything, I’d love to read it!)

Here’s an easy explanation: we didn’t have enough.

Wait times are no fun, right? Need more people to process the things, or you need to remove some of the regulatory steps involved. Both those, the doing of the work and the fruitless “just make it faster” boondoggles, need meatbags to do the doing.

You now how we can tell we didn’t have enough? WAIT TIMES. When it’s zero, you may have too many staff. When it’s a day, you’re probably just right. Show me a wait time report and I’ll show you 12 months in processing delays that we should have avoided by grabbing an intelligent peon and making them do some things of the things that need doing – because processing delays and wait times are absolutely the shits right now.

QED

So you’re hating on all of us because one person generalized? Curious.

Depends.

Some I cultivated afterwards - gave some space, and later pitched a “I don’t want to get back together but I miss hanging out. Lemme buy coffee” to usually good effect. If you’re compatible as friends still, it could be a very strong friendship. But you broke up for a reason, so keep that in mind.

But sometimes you’re really incompatible and a simple friendship isn’t even healthy for you two. That’s okay too.

It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn’t happen.

You’d run more tariffs - already usually a mistake - just to prop up a sector so people don’t have to switch crops?

I was educated in Calgary, but I worry they’ve slipped.

the province has no plan B

Want some irony? The NDP held Alberta for a long time, until Peter Lougheed won it for the conservatives on a platform of diversifying away from oil to build a healthy and resilient economy.

Then they elected him and threw out the plan, suckling at the oil teat that much harder.

They don’t realize the colors are arbitrary. Many don’t realize the internet spans the world.

Socialism and democracy are good words in some countries. Socialism is how my sister in law gets to retire at 55 and in excellent health, and democracy is how they got that.

It’s weird how private email and verified senders are a problem solved like 20 years ago. And we still can’t figure it out?

So much hate over an apology.

Consider the source: a Canadian. We apologize for you bumping into us, but that apology means “I’m sorry you couldn’t have been better.”

We use an apology to mean different things, and it’s subtle. Mr Trump is not, and I am sorry he is not – here I express solidarity with your predicament, but you may interpret that as an admission of guilt.

There’s two non-guilt apologies, and there are more.

I’m sorry this has caused such a stir for some Americans and some Canadians, for instance, but the Canadians will understand I’m apologizing because I worry for the state of people where this is a big deal and I neither confess guilt over it nor overt care for the people so afflicted by this infatuation, and I’m mostly just finishing the talk so I can walk away and forget it happened.

Don’t be upset. Canadians know there was no loss of face here to the guy running the shitty meth lab in our basement. Reach out if we can help.

That’s a weird story. If it’s not 30 generations old it may not be true.

I dearly wish to use and support this app.

But here’s the thing: containers - like so many other mechanisms - suffer from supply-chain risks due to reduced validation to the degree assumed and required compared to, say, good packaging that integrates with the resident source of truth on a given system. Containers, like so many other risky mechanisms that dates back to CPAN or earlier, cannot exist in a secure environment.

For those of us working where we can to minimize repair/recovery work through best practice, Immich cannot be run.

I know there’s a homebrew workaround, but given it’s external to the dev effort it’s a risk that it won’t suddenly work as a reliable update resource; and that risk stymies uptake for us.

Now, I know I’ve suggested there’s imperfection in a number of favourite technologies and methods, and that’s fine. If downvotes is how you defend these sacred cows, I understand.

Correct: it’s like trying to equate “correct” with “popular”, and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

But it’s good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.