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Huh, I *DID* feel something shaking!!M 3.6 earthquake near Rivière-Rouge just before...

Huh, I *DID* feel something shaking!!

M 3.6 earthquake near Rivière-Rouge just before noon

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000pzsu/executive

Edit: a bit too late to see now, but it was also visible on the 🇨🇦 government seismometers:
https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/wf-fo/index-en.php#/CN.VLDQ..HHZ

If anyone in #Ottawa / #Gatineau has tailor recommendations 👇https://ottawa.place/@lra007_/114177301517593530

If anyone in #Ottawa / #Gatineau has tailor recommendations 👇
https://ottawa.place/@lra007_/114177301517593530

A nice short statement from...

A nice short statement from Hydro-Québec:

https://nouvelles.hydroquebec.com/fr/communiques-de-presse/2162/hydro-quebec-proactive-pour-favoriser-lachat-de-biens-et-services-du-quebec-du-canada-et-de-leurope/

"[...] Des 6 G$ d’achats en biens et services d’Hydro-Québec l’an dernier, moins de 150 M$ ont été achetés chez des fournisseurs domiciliés aux États-Unis. Cela dit, Hydro-Québec cherche toujours des occasions de maximiser les retombées économiques ici [...]"

#HydroQuebec #buycanadian

There is a *lot* of snow on the ground here in Ottawa. If Lucasfilm is looking to do a re-shoot of the Battle of Hoth, have I got the...

There is a *lot* of snow on the ground here in Ottawa. If Lucasfilm is looking to do a re-shoot of the Battle of Hoth, have I got the backyard for you... ☃️❄️🌨️

#ottawa #OttWeather #snow

I've seem a few posts here, reminding folks to check their furnace intake and exhaust pipes are clear of snow. Something that people...

I've seem a few posts here, reminding folks to check their furnace intake and exhaust pipes are clear of snow. Something that people here may not know, though, is that the pressure regulator on a gas meter *also* has a vent. This vent *must* be unblocked to ensure that the regulated pressure inside your home remains the same; if the vent is blocked, the pressure can increase inside your house, possibly leading to leaks, fire, or even an explosion!

If you're curious how... in the most common kind of pressure regulator that I'm familiar with, there's a flexible diaphragm that is connected to a spring. The spring applies a constant pressure to the diaphragm, and the gas flowing through the regulator applies a variable pressure to the other side. As the pressure on the supply side increases, the diaphragm is pushed up, which itself is connected to a lever and valve. Thus, as the diaphragm is pushed up by increasing gas pressure, the valve closes, reducing or stopping the gas supply into the house.

However: this only works if the "top" part of the diaphragm (with the spring) isn't sealed; if it was, the air inside the top would exert a force as it was compressed, counteracting the gas pressure, and the valve wouldn't close as quickly. Thus, the spring side of the diaphragm is vented to the atmosphere, ensuring that the only forces on the diaphragm are from the spring and the gas itself.

If the vent becomes blocked, the air sealed in the spring-side will, as mentioned above, exert a pressure, reducing the movement of the diaphragm and resulting in a falsely-low reading for the incoming gas pressure, and thus a higher-than-normal "output" pressure into your house.

Ensure your gas meter is kept clear of snow and debris!

#ONStorm #snow #weather #ottawa #OttWeather #YOWWx

Prompted by @kenwhite.bsky.social asking a question about how to un-watermark images, and not finding a good introductory post in a few...

Prompted by @kenwhite.bsky.social asking a question about how to un-watermark images, and not finding a good introductory post in a few minutes of searching, I wrote up a thing!

https://makenorth.ca/blog/anonymizing-documents/

This is intended to be a short and non-exhaustive introduction to watermarking, fingerprinting, and basic methods to mitigate those tactics. This is *not* a comprehensive guide and you should *not* take (just) my word on this, especially if you're worried about very well-resourced actors.

If anyone has additional links, thoughts, etc., feel free to send me a pull request over on GitHub:
https://github.com/MakeNorth/makenorth.github.io/blob/main/content/blog/anonymizing-documents.md

Happy New Year y’all. May we have the strength to face it.

Happy New Year y’all. May we have the strength to face it.

@alex Hello! I just came across your (very interesting) "A Year of CoreOS Home Server" and related GitHub repo. I had a few...

@alex Hello! I just came across your (very interesting) "A Year of CoreOS Home Server" and related GitHub repo. I had a few questions, if you don't mind–no urgency on any of them, and feel free to decline if you'd prefer to not answer 😃

1. It looks like you don't declare a persistent volume when installing on bare metal, but rely on `rclone` backups of container volumes to backup/restore data, and the `coreos-home-server-update` unit to update configuration; is that right?

2. How often do you find yourself re-installing everything, vs. updating in-place with `coreos-home-server-update`?

3. What do you actually run the OS on? I'm looking to run inside a Proxmox VM; are you running on actual bare metal, or in a VM somewhere?

Thanks! Very interesting stuff.

For no particular reason, ottawa.place has a few new emoji today:

For no particular reason, ottawa.place has a few new emoji today:

Okay, courtesy of @shadowspar I just discovered an incredible #solar installation: a United Church in Wawa, Ontario, installed four sets of...

Okay, courtesy of @shadowspar I just discovered an incredible #solar installation: a United Church in Wawa, Ontario, installed four sets of solar panels on their roof... in the shape of crosses!

Really neat to see people using the panels themselves as art or for things other than just generating power.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/8Y8ubsJyJ8HgZdSC8

Things I’m not a fan of: misclicking on “Boost” when scrolling around 🤦‍♂️

Things I’m not a fan of: misclicking on “Boost” when scrolling around 🤦‍♂️

For those of us in #ottawa ... if you were hearing what sounded like thunder earlier, it was actually fireworks, from this festival:...

For those of us in #ottawa ... if you were hearing what sounded like thunder earlier, it was actually fireworks, from this festival: https://feux.qc.ca/en/home/

I hadn't heard of it before, but apparently it's "A multisensory festival under the theme of the unifying fire"

There appears to be pyrotechnics scheduled for Wednesdays and Saturdays for the next ~3 weeks or so, per the program:
https://feux.qc.ca/en/programme/

🎆

I worked with Charlotte ( @catzkorn) at Tailscale, and she’s great. Highly recommend her if you want to work with someone kind, competent,...

I worked with Charlotte (
@catzkorn) at Tailscale, and she’s great. Highly recommend her if you want to work with someone kind, competent, customer-focused, and able to work with people both inside and outside engineering.
https://phire.place/@catzkorn/112800172404283039

@phire Congrats on being on the threads.net list of moderated servers 😂https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

@phire Congrats on being on the threads.net list of moderated servers 😂

https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

Spot where the snow slid down the solar panels and onto our back deck... and scared the daylights out of our cat Marie:#solar

Spot where the snow slid down the solar panels and onto our back deck... and scared the daylights out of our cat Marie:

#solar

ottawa.place is one year old today! 🎂 A year or so ago, @leigh and I decided that we wanted to host our own instance here on the...

ottawa.place is one year old today! 🎂

A year or so ago, @leigh and I decided that we wanted to host our own instance here on the Fediverse, and noticed the lack of an Ottawa-specific server. We registered ottawa.place and set up the Hometown fork of Mastodon, and before the week was out we started seeing other users sign up!

I wanted to say thanks to everyone on our instance for making this space enjoyable and friendly, @darius for Hometown, and all the other Mastodon admins that have helped out with their experience reports, blog posts, and DMs/Discord/Signal messages/etc. (including but not limited to @mike, @trendless, @aurynn, the friendly folks of the mastoadmin hashtag, and I'm sure others that I've forgotten). Thanks also to @chad for mstdn.ca and all the advocacy for Mastodon here in Canada.

Finally, thanks to my wife and co-admin @leigh for all the help over the past year; from terms of service to trust and safety, I couldn't do it without you ❤️

Here's to many more years running ottawa.place! 🎉

There's been a few folks here in the #ottawa corner of the fediverse that have been talking about #heatpumps, #solar, etc. in the past...

There's been a few folks here in the #ottawa corner of the fediverse that have been talking about #heatpumps, #solar, etc. in the past few months. For people interested in that stuff, there's a group called Electrify613 with a very helpful Slack instance and a bunch of very useful information. Would definitely recommend joining!

https://electrify613.ca/

We have a monitor over our basement sump pit that tracks how often it cycles, draining water from our foundation drains out and away from...

We have a monitor over our basement sump pit that tracks how often it cycles, draining water from our foundation drains out and away from our house. Thanks to the rain we got in Ottawa today (Thursday), it has cycled at least 250 times since things started. Our sump pit is large, too; as a best guess, it's about 80L per cycle.

That's a *lot* of water 😱

Confirmed by CTV News:https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/tornado-touches-down-in-ottawa-s-south-end-1.6505044

Confirmed by CTV News:
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/tornado-touches-down-in-ottawa-s-south-end-1.6505044

Sounds like (from Twitter) that there's confirmation of a #tornado in the Greely area, right near Albion Road & Rideau...

Sounds like (from Twitter) that there's confirmation of a #tornado in the Greely area, right near Albion Road & Rideau Road:

https://twitter.com/ConnorMockettWX/status/1687234289929203712

#onstorm #ottawa #OttawaStorm