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If I can ramble a bit more - forget the Anycast bit. If you run your own DNS server(s), you can just configure them to respond based on the geographic location of the requester. PowerDNS is pretty easy to set up for this. You could run your own DNS just for the image domain. You basically run PowerDNS authoritative server, set up your zones and the geoip stuff, then slap dnsdist in front of it to be publicly exposed. dnsdist has anti-DDoS features and loadbalancing in it, in case you need it down the road.

Since it's just for static images, you can have a higher TTL so you don't need to worry about distributing the DNS servers. (ie. the DNS lookup might not be super fast since it could go across the country, but it doesn't matter since that lookup is only going to happen every TTL period on each client, which can be high.)

One suggestion to consider for Lemmy.ca is to move your images and other easily-cacheable content to a different domain or subdomain, to give you more flexibility.

eg. If you serve your static assets off of lemmyimages.ca, then you can have only that behind a CDN, Cloudflare, or some other hosting with DDoS scrubbing. It gives you more flexibility to cope with various situations.

2tb a week isn't much (6 mbps on average?). It's pretty easy to set up nginx as a caching reverse proxy and spin that up on a couple of VPSes, but the annoying bit is you need to anycast your own IP address space in order for it to be functional as a CDN.

I'm not aware of any Canadian-owned CDNs either... OVH has one but they're pretty crappy as a company. Beware of whitelabelled CDNs too, even some of the CDNs provided by big cloud hosting companies are actually whitelabelled from another company.

It's not about software or data. It's about control over the supply chain - cars are essential to our economy and way of life in North America (like it or not). It's the same reason we protect the milk supply. You don't want another country to be able to turn it off in a conflict.

The thing is, if Trump wants to kill Canada's role in US car manufacturing, then it will cost him the car markets in Mexico and Canada. If there's no jobs here to protect, then we'll just drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs. (This is speaking like 20 years down the road). We'll all be driving Chinese cars in that scenario. The tariffs are a total lose-lose situation, so dumb.

I'd be way more concerned about whether it's a deathtrap than whether or not the touchscreen has good UX, lol.

The Filaments.ca house brand in PLA used to be Made in Canada but I don't see that advertised anymore, so it might not still be the case. It actually still says "Made in Canada" in the HTML description for their Econofil line but I don't see it on the page.

IIRC their house brand was also the same as 3dprintingcanada.com. All my information is from about 5 years ago so it could be totally incorrect today.

Does Anki come with content? Like where do I get the flash cards from for a certain language? The website makes no mention of this

I sorta get what you're asking for, but I think you're going to get a response like, "Read a book". There's just not much to be gained by discussing issues like this on the internet, lol. edit: I think your example is maybe confusing too... not sure if you're looking for political debates, or just educational discussions, or what. Maybe you could clarify and it'd help get some more constructive answers!

Have baked with Camino chocolate before, it's a really good choice. Edit: It's also vegan!

Bitwarden is open source though. Self host, if you can. But yeah, looks like 1Password is headquartered in Toronto.

Totally fair. One thing that's super clear in this country is that the tax laws favour the rich. IMHO even RRSPs are of greater benefit to people who don't pay rent or have paid off their mortgages.

It's great that you've pointed this out and I hope there's more awareness about it. In practice, it's not hard: Buy from candian-owned small businesses who manufacture in Canada.

In my not-at-all-humble opinion, most of your examples are all shit you shouldn't be buying in the first place:

• We have copious amounts of local craft beer. Never buy the big brands, they're all swill. If you actually drink craft beer, you'll know which brands, like Creemore and Millstreet, are fake craft.

• Nobody should be buying anything from Coca-Cola in the 21st century. We've known pop is terrible for your health for like 50 years. They're a shit company who is the biggest polluter of plastics in the world.

• Canada Goose is for tools with no taste. By the time any trendy fashion company gets bought out, it's not cool anymore.

All we have to do as a nation is just put that little extra effort into learning about what we're buying and making different choices, and it's actually great that we're all doing that because we should have been doing it all along.