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Terrorist attack in Montreal

Holy guac this is insane and insanely tragic ...

The cop crawling to the front of that white car is definitely dead, looks like he had already been shot when the video started.

His female colleague then appears to shoot a civilian in the dark top who pops up behind the barricade/wall (but in that situation I don't know what I would do, the other cop next to me just got shot dead).

And then the shooter in camouflage gear runs up, it looks like she spots him and actually is able to shoot at him while reportedly getting shot at & surviving herself. And then the shooter hides behind the white barricade, appears to reload or fiddle with his weapon, but maybe grasp at his wound? And just ... keels over? At first it looked like he was trying to get on the ground to me, but the more I'm looking at it, the more it looks like he just died then and there.

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Life in your 30s

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As someone who is some of those things as well, I would love to know what the wife and/or child are doing during all those activities. Because something has to give when you're doing that much.

In my experience, that balance is really hard, and even in the most hospitable, high-quality-of-life places, that balance is not exactly always something that is nurtured and valued by the systems in place.

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What is something you SHOULD cheap out on?

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For headphones, DEFINITELY not true in my experience. There’s cheap and gimmicky (like Skullcandy), there’s perceived “luxury” brands like Beats (which aren’t actually worth their money) but then there’s brands that actually offer significantly better quality and longevity for the price, like Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Audio-Technica and Sony to name a few.

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Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled

Did you guys read the article? It says that the recyclables are “sitting in an open lot, waiting to be recycled” but the processing facility doesn’t have the machinery to do so yet. It will in a few months, when it is scheduled to start recycling plastics.

I’m the first person to bring upthe whole “tons of recyclables just end up on a garbage dump” thing, but this article (or at least the way it’s posted here on lemmy) feels rage-baity.

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What's something good that's happened to you this month?

Money is not overly abundant currently. Today we got a notice in the mail from our landlords that our rent is being lowered by 20 bucks a month (yes, you read that right, lowered) and we have been overpaying on our utilities so we're getting some money back which, incidentally, can then go directly to our upcoming electricity payment haha.

That felt like things working out nicely out of the blue.

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Do any of us host their own email?

I do, a bit differently from what’s been mentioned here so far:

I actually host my server at home, running mailcow as my email-server-software of choice, and incoming emails do get delivered directly to my ISP-assigned IP via dynamically updated DNS records.

However: Outgoing email is delivered via an SMTP relay service, specifically Mailgun (I like them because for normal everyday email volume it’s free), because even when I was hosting the email server in a datacenter, it was impossible to not encounter deliverability issues.

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Tool for Monitoring Bandwidth in Real Time

So you want the available bandwidth to be monitored in “real time”, but you don’t want constant speed tests to happen. Then you mention a script doing a speed test.

You’re gonna have to choose: Either you run some kind of Speedtest on a regular basis, which will give you somewhat “real-time” results, or you don’t do it, and you don’t have real-time data as a result.

A very quick google search brought up this power shell script, that even formats the results for PRTG:

https://github.com/greiginsydney/New-OoklaSpeedTest.ps1

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New /m/sysadmin Owner

Sounds good!

This was one of the first communities (although in hindsight, i guess not really) I subscribed to after signing up for lemmy.

Would be very glad to see more engagement here, I’ll try to engage more myself!