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I waddled onto the beach and ~~stole~~ *found* a computer to use.

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More places seem to be switching over to a centralized/interoperable system for prescription information. In BC Canada we have

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/practitioner-professional-resources/pharmacare/pharmanet-bc-s-drug-information-network

PharmaNet is a provincewide network owned and operated by the Ministry of Health. PharmaNet keeps a record of every prescription dispensed in B.C. community pharmacies and select hospital outpatient pharmacies.

In another Lemmy thread recently, someone mentioned that Australia has a national system for it. I think this might be it

https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-real-time-prescription-monitoring-rtpm

The UI mostly, and because the layout is familiar to them

You could try specifying the material, like "a wax statue that is starting to soften and melt"

On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won't face the same problems old social media did.

Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.

BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that's true. However with their structure, a central relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn't truly decentralized. Right now BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance. They've mentioned that they could transfer control of the relay to some other organization, but past that I don't think they've taken any steps towards that.

BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech. There is more technical discussion on if it's even possible to have a decentralized BlueSky and if it's all just talk while they gather users.

My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they're promising, but I'm not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.

If my understanding is correct

With Islam, the deity is meant to have no gender and the use of "he" has more to do with the nuances of Arabic language

With Christianity, there is more anthropomorphism and the deity is seen as a father figure in comparison to everything else

I installed OnlyOffice for a family member and they have no complaints. They were happy to learn they don't need to worry about subscriptions anymore either

I haven't seen this application yet, but is the difference that you can install word locally instead of using it in a web browser?

I may be wrong, but I think it's because some company owns the rights to the show in Canada and doesn't want people watching it on YouTube

Not commenting on Bluesky, but the others have taken steps to differentiate themselves

Mastodon was handed over to a non profit

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko

Signal has been under a nonprofit

https://signalfoundation.org/

Being open source also means that people can fork the apps if something changes, or apps + server code in the case of a lot of fediverse software

Indirectly, looking up "John Oliver Mastodon" brings up this post in the top few. "John Oliver Pixelfed" has this post as the first option

So we're not completely left out :)

DDG and Brave were pushed as "censorship free" alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them

There may be more to it though

Someone could make a script that does that every now and then.

Check for any communities made since the last run, and add those to the list

Ads generally come with tracking, since the advertiser wants to know their ad was seen / effective. Some ad systems might be better than others, but I don't have experience there

I know Mozilla is working on 'Privacy respecting ads', which was also controversial: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/article/a-privacy-first-solution-that-meets-advertisers-needs/

Yup, the dev commented on this a while back here:

https://lemmy.ca/post/6072534/3382664

Dev here.

The dialog and its content is not created by me, it is a standard solution from Google to comply with GDPR and other laws. More info here: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/10114014?hl=en

The consent dialog is also required by Google AdMob to show ads, and it is shown when the ad network is initialized.

When the app launches, first it checks for the remove ads purchase, and if it is not present, it will initialize the ads sdk. The ad network is not initialized if the remove ads purchase is detected.

Boost for Reddit was using the very same ad networks and consent dialog.

(In fact they've commented on this a few times)

I personally liked Boost, and paid for the ad free version to support the development. For what it's worth, I've also donated to / bought a few others for similar reasons, and I keep a few Lemmy apps installed so I can test things out on the admin side.

Without recommending any particular app, I'd recommend this site, which lets you compare and filter by the factors that are important to you: https://lemmyapps.com/

If you want a guide for new users, we have one here (tldr it links to the site above): https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/mobile-apps

I'm more of an outsider for this community / hobby, but I thought the post was neat :)

I went looking for the emulator I was thinking of, and it looks like that recommendation also changed

Aethersx2 is a port of PCSX2 for Android. However, the developer rage quit and it's now removed from the play store. What you really want to do is get your hands on Nethersx2 which is a mod of aethersx2.

This is an old thread now, but if you have any other issues with that frontend, you can also try their community here: https://lemmy.ca/c/tesseract@dubvee.org

There is also this from our previous census, but the data is fairly outdated now with how much the frontends have changed:

https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-02-10_censusResults#_3-6-desktop-interface-usage

Maybe a triangle with concave sides?