#cira — Public Fediverse posts

I've had a bunch of updates to my list of Canadian Alternatives to US big tech lately (thanks everyone!), and have just added a bit about Digital Independence Day (thanks @ui3o!) as well:

🇨🇦 https://worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alternatives

🇪🇺 mirror: https://codeberg.org/taffer/canadian-alternatives

#Canada #BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp #DigitalIndependence #DID #Canadian #CanadianAlternatives #CIRA

I've been optimizing my DNS setup this week, I found out that when using @quad9dns, my DNS queries are being routed to California instead of locally in Toronto even though Quad9 has servers in Toronto. For some reason my ISP has been routing Quad9 DNS queries to Quad9's servers in California.

Luckily, both @cloudflare DNS & CIRA Canadian Shield DNS routes DNS traffic within Canada. Was pleasantly surprised that Cloudflare DNS actually supports DNS over HTTPS via HTTP/3 even though not advertised. Unfortunately, CIRA CanadianShield DNS doesn't support DNS over HTTPS via HTTP/3 or DNS over QUIC, hopefully @cira will consider adding those support in the near future.

What I really hope is that the Quad9 routing gets fixed, I know there's a good chance that there's nothing they can do about ISP routing but here's to hoping.

#dns #dnsoverquic #dnsoverhttps #cloudflare #quad9 #cira

Abendrunde mit Cira.
#Cira #dogsofmastodon #englishsetter #englischersetter #dogs #hund

#FotoVorschlag „Übertriebene Nachbearbeitung“

Dramatischer Setter.

#Cira #dogsofmastodon #englishsetter #Hunde #dogs #enlischersetter

A #LineaRadioSavona con GianFunk abbiamo conosciuto il #CIRA (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali) e investigato un po' sul progetto Moon Drone!
Grazie a chi ha ascoltato, buon sabato!🙏👋🚀
#UnoRadio #Spazio #Ricerca #Luna #mastoradio @astronomia

#ESA:
"
Space Rider drop model ready to glide
"
"The first full-size test model of the European Space Agency’s reusable spacecraft Space Rider is complete. .. finalised at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre in Capua, Italy .. will be dropped from a helicopter later this year and glide to a landing to reenact the final approach from orbit"

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Space_Rider/Space_Rider_drop_model_ready_to_glide

22.4.2026

#CIRA #INCAS #Raumfahrt #Raumgleiter #SpaceFlight #SpaceRider #TAS #ThalesAleniaSpace

#Cira #dogsofmastodon #hunde #setter #englishsetter #englischersetter #kirschblüte #cherryblossoms

#dogurday #dog #Cira #dogsofmastodon #dogs #hund #englishsetter #EnglischSetter #setter #hunde #Jagdhund #Pets

Sie hat so etwas menschliches im Blick.

#Cira #dogsofmastodon #dogs #hund #englishsetter #EnglischSetter #setter #dog #hunde #Jagdhund #Pets

Blue dog.

#Cira #setter #englishsetter #EnglischSetter #dog #dogsofmastodon #shotoniphone #iPhone15ProMax

Gab‘s nicht mal einen Film mit dem Titel „Liegen lernen“?
Hier wäre dann das Plakat dazu.

#Cira #englischsetter #dogsofmastodon #dogs #setter #englishsetters

Frohe Weihnachten 🎄!

#Cira #englishsetter #dogsofmastodon #christmas #xmas #weihnachten

#dogsofmastodon #dogs #hund #englishsetter #Cira #dog #hund
Was für ein tolles Wetter heute Vormittag!

@timbray , about "Canadian Shield", I feel I ought to plot a middle course between praising CIRA for providing something helpful, and mild criticism for their misleading description and apparent proprietary codebase. So:

1. CIRA have given to the world a seemingly nice filtering DNS proxy, to block requests to malicious Web sites known to Canadian Centre for Cyber Security ("CCCS"). It fits into various OSes as either substitute (proxy) nameserver IPs for routers/other-computer systems or as a Web browser extension.

2. It is not, as claimed on cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/, a "DNS resolver", nor, as claimed elsewhere on that site and linked pages, a "DNS server".

3. It is also apparently not open source or even source-available, as far as I can tell, and its source of truth, the filtering data, is apparently neither controllable nor visible to the user, but rather gets blackbox-oursourced to the presumably benevolent folks at CCCS, who furnish judgement about what DNS FQDNs your Web browser(s) should be permitted to resolve.

It would be boorish to gripe about any of that, but (a) an open source implementation with crowd-sourcing friendly blocklists would be even better, and (b) I was slightly disappointed that it isn't a DNS resolver, particularly one of the full-featured subvariety called "recursive resolvers".

Now, there actually are a number of amazing, bulletproof, no-administration-needed recursive resolvers,some tiny enough to even make sense as the local DNS client on smartphones. I don't know if any have been made to work on smartphone OSes, but they should be: Knot Resolver, Deadwood, Unbound, PowerDNS Recursor, and dnscache. (See my bestiary for Linux: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html )

I mention those in case any smartphone coders wish to fill what is probably an unmet need.

(Disclaimer: I haven't much looked into filtering DNS proxy software. Not my cuppa.)

#CIRA
#DNS

Hurricane Melissa satellite with lightning. My heart is with Jamaica.

💔

This is a category 5, their largest hurricane in history. It’s likely that Jamaica will be completely demolished.

Who has info on how we can help? Are there reliable mutual aid recipients? Other ideas on how to help?

Credit: CIRA/NOAA
https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurricane-melissa/

#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #NOAA #CIRA #Satellite #MutualAid

#welthundetag #dogsofmastodon #dogs #hund #englishsetter #Cira #dog #hund
Alles Liebe zum WELTHUNDETAG!!!

#welthundetag #dogsofmastodon #dogs #hund #englishsetter #Cira
Alles Liebe zum WELTHUNDETAG

@bastibayer
Liebe Grüße zurück von #Cira

@mastodonmigration

Eight months on, this is still a thing 😔

I have a guess at why folks, especially celebrities, flock to bsky: like many c.2004, I also moved from self-hosting to Platforms stupidly thinking hey, let their global team of devop nerds manage uptime! It never occurred to me they'd betray me. Sure, maybe to advertising, but that should make ads better, right? Right?

FB, X et al ARE distributed! Globally! But under one company, which disturbs us, them what has the 'nous'😅, but I think it comforts them, seems somehow 'stable' and 'trustworthy' and they just want to feed their channels. After all, isn't EVERY multi-national just as evil? Is bsky worse than Coca-Cola?

I admit, I chose mstdn.ca when #CIRA backed it, because if @cira goes evil, the whole country is fucked. 😊

#Cira #dogsofmastodon #dogs #englishsetter #setter #hund

CIRA posted a list of 12 Canadian coffee roasters who ship and have subscriptions: https://www.cira.ca/en/resources/news/domains/six-canadian-coffee-subscriptions/

I've been picking up Balzac's https://balzacs.com/ or Jumping Bean (in the article) at the grocery store as they've got compostable Keurig cups, which is something I wished more companies would do. ☕

#coffee #elbowsup #buycanadian #cira

#englishsetter #setter #dog #dogsofmastodon #englischersetter #hund #Tierschutzhunde #Cira

My beloved Cira ♥️
#englishsetter #setter #dog #dogsofmastodon #englischersetter #hund #Tierschutzhunde #Cira

Why is Via Rail using a legitimate, owned domain name as part of their example email!!!

Domain Name: company.com
Registry Domain ID: 5202_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2025-05-27T17:21:37Z
Creation Date: 1994-07-07T23:00:00Z

AAAAAAAAAA

#viarail #canada #email #iana #cira

#Cira #dogsofmastodon #englishsetter #setter #jagdhund #englischersetter #huntingdog #dogs

Thinking about crossing the US border from Canada? The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has some advice for protecting your digital life:

https://www.cira.ca/en/resources/news/cybersecurity/protect-your-phone-data-border/?_zs=NAlWl&_zl=WnTO3

#Canada #DontGoToTheUS #CIRA