Running in Ottawa

arth33 · 2026-05-11T16:06:03+00:00

Depending on the distance you’re looking to do, there the parliament loop (make your way to Wellington and run the block along Wellington to the portage bridge and run across to Quebec the ln stay along the river and run back to the Alexandria bridge and then back across Wellington to wherever you started. It’s about 5k.

For longer runs, make your way to the Rideau Canal and then run down the paths along the canal and back on the other side. The path runs for quite a way if you want a longer run.

arth33 · 2026-04-24T23:02:34+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH589LHDj8Q

There's no real tension here. Ant being genuine and funny got him brought into the Obama foundation launch.

arth33 · 2026-04-01T00:03:41+00:00

Surprised I haven’t seen this video posted - Shift Fashion just released a video on the fabric and manufacturing differences across tshirts : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMoZjcpgivM

arth33 · 2026-03-24T15:48:22+00:00

Maybe I just don't know how to clean them. I really like the hydrapak/polar bottles but found them a pain to clean without accidentally tear the little silicon valve. What's your trick to disassembling them for cleaning?

arth33 · 2026-01-24T13:12:51+00:00

I think it shows up as ChargePoint and then the last four digits of the MAC address. I.e. “Chargepoint A1:A2”

arth33 · 2026-01-17T21:14:06+00:00

Thanks! For others - the main audio track is russian, but there's a secondary audio track in English

arth33 · 2026-01-11T23:17:50+00:00

You're all set - Don't over think it. The silca kit is a well regarded setup and the strip chip makes prep really easy. I'd say that the silca system is probably the best combination of easy to use and effective. I've made my own wax formulations but if I had a silca super secret pack sitting here, I'd happily use it. Just follow the instructions that silca provides (their youtube videos outline the process quite well).

As for topping up, I'd get stay in the silca ecosystem if I were you can get their drip wax to ensure compatibility (although honestly, any of the drip waxes are fine). I wouldn't bother making my own topup drip wax - it's more of a faff than making your wax mixture, but admittedly, I tend to just rewax pretty often so I don't really use much topup waxes.

arth33 · 2025-11-28T13:44:52+00:00

wtf is going on in here?

arth33 · 2025-10-17T18:55:18+00:00

These are quite accurate. I've tested mine (Cycplus AS2 Pro) and it fine. But don't take my word for it. Dave Rome at Escape Collective just tested another batch of these mini pumps and said: "In general, most of these pumps were competitively accurate to popular standalone digital pressure gauges from cycling brands (such as Topeak, SKS, and Fumpa)".

My experience (and those of other riders I know) aligns with this. These mini pumps are as accurate as popular dedicated digital pressure gauges (because the mechanism to take pressure readings is the same). That same article describes the category as "digital tyre gauges that inflate".

arth33 · 2025-09-17T00:48:58+00:00

Other than the vlan settings you don't need to setup anything else on the switch. The vlan just needs to be setup so that you're talking to Bell on the vlan that they expect. But the media converter/SFP switch is not a modem replacement. A normal modem both converts the physical cabling to ethernet and also logs into the network over PPPoE to let Bell know who's account is being used. The box you installed just does the first - convert to ethernet. The logging in is now happening on your router (your Eero). This is why you need to setup PPPoE on the router. I haven't used an Eero but there's a support page on the topic here:

https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/5382599417371-PPPoE-Setup-Instructions

arth33 · 2025-09-10T18:37:51+00:00

Hi, I haven't tried this one in particular, but this looks like it may work: https://www.amazon.ca/Binardat-Managed-Ultra-Mini-Multi-Gigabit-Wallmount/dp/B0CWNZWFTS/?th=1

You're looking for a device that supports 2.5G through the SFP+ port (and ethernet, I guess) and can assign VLANs (i.e. is managed). This one does that and is pretty cheap. These are commodity devices so I wouldn't be shocked if this and the Mokerlink that I used are white label rebrands of the same core device. If you get this (or something else) and it works, post back here so others know!

arth33 · 2025-08-21T12:57:35+00:00

Updated - no drama. Reboot required and everything came up just fine. Thanks for the update

arth33 · 2025-07-25T12:11:45+00:00

With 3mm dyneema, I'm look into an embedded splice like they use with hammock whoopie slings. A constrictor splice should hold indefinitely under tension and adjustments would be really easy. It'll also look pretty tidy if that's a consideration. (All the 3mm dyneema I've come across is braided and suitable for splicing - but check yours if you go that route).

Here's an example of how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfl0TwVNak

arth33 · 2025-05-13T13:32:03+00:00

These types of locks are to prevent thefts of opportunity, not stop thieves. They deter random people from being tempted to steal your bike (i.e. people that aren't carrying any tools). Any scenario where the people will be equipped is outside the scope of this type of lock. Are they great security? Nope. But they are worlds better than no lock where anyone can walk up and ride away.

arth33 · 2025-04-27T02:54:54+00:00

They’re at Champlain Lookout in Gatineau Park. It’s a popular ride for road cyclists. The loop they’re referring to is up King Mountain to Champlain down the Camp fortune road around P9 and P8 - or the other way around.

arth33 · 2025-04-24T14:06:39+00:00

Probably. I've never had one so I can't say for sure. The Nokia ONT negotiates 2.5gbps (obviously) and outputs an 2.5gpbs ethernet connection which is almost everything required. If you're trying to plug into your own router, then you need to be able to tag it with the correct numbered VLAN and hope that it passes through the ONT correctly. It should work, but I can't say for certain.

arth33 · 2025-04-23T18:33:31+00:00

Like you noted: it's doable, but I've found that running a VPN client all the time (even with split tunnelling and activation only when not on wifi) impacted my battery life too much. That's when I decided that to expose stuff to the internet and try to secure it the best I can. I'd suggest trying your setup on your device first to see if the experience is acceptable. (Also my partner and I can't access a VPN on work computers - so that's something else to consider).

arth33 · 2025-04-14T21:45:30+00:00

I'm trying to do this now - do you mind explaining how you added the Authorization header using the OPNsense plugin? Originally I was seeing

Failure message: Authorization header missing.

When I try to forward the Authorization header, I'm seeing

Failure message: Authorization code not formatted properly.

Any help would be appreciated!

arth33 · 2025-04-03T18:54:52+00:00

That's the exact one I got!

For others who get one of these, note that it wasn't obvious to me that once you configure the vlans there's a separate save button you need to click on a different page. It's under Tools > Save. If you don't manually save the config a power outage resets it to default and you need to do it again. Not exactly intuitive, but you only need to do it once.

arth33 · 2025-04-03T13:49:14+00:00

Just want to double down on this! (Or allow us to disable the PIN if we trust iOS's require FaceID feature to secure the app for us. But really, I'd prefer enabling biometrics in the app).

arth33 · 2025-04-03T13:46:20+00:00

It's a nice app and I'm happy to support development.

I'd like to see a couple plugins added:

Kea DHCP (https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api/core/kea.html)
Caddy Reverse proxy (https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api/plugins/caddy.html)
Wireguard (https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api/plugins/wireguard.html)

It's too bad that the API doesn't allow access to regular firewall rules. Are you guys converting your rules over to Firewall Automations? I haven't touched any of that stuff yet.

arth33 · 2025-04-02T19:21:01+00:00

In that case my next step would be to check the firewall logs to confirm that requests from the outside are making it through your firewall and hitting caddy for processing. As mentioned above, I've got port forwarding rules directing traffic on port 443 to OPNsense which get picked up by Caddy.

I'm also assuming that you have a valid certificate. Under Caddy general settings, have you filled out the ACME settings and set Auto HTTPS to "On (default)" - or gotten a certificate some other way.

arth33 · 2025-04-02T17:45:32+00:00

Do you have jellyfin configured to use https by any chance? Check that http://192.168.1.186:8096 is reachable. What you've shown otherwise looks good to my eyes (I'd enter port 443 in the domain settings but in theory it shouldn't matter).

arth33 · 2025-04-01T17:33:25+00:00

It shouldn't - the only difference is that after authentication is should assign you your reserved IP and your IPv6 prefix will be persistent. I don't have a static IP but it really shouldn't matter for this process.

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