Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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

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I find this unproductive. People SHOULD ask their elected representatives (and candidates) to improve. I want people to point it out when my preferred candidate does something wrong, because then they're more likely to address it before the election.

That is exactly how it works. Criticizing the better option of the two will reduce turnout for that candidate. That’s the whole purpose of political campaigns.

I'm not saying this doesn't happen, but I don't think a significant number of people changed their mind about voting for her because of the protests.

• Option 1: Politically engaged people don't point out a problem -> The candidate doesn't address the problem -> The average voter doesn't vote for the candidate because of the problem
• Option 2: Politically engaged people DO point out a problem -> The candidate addresses the problem -> The average voter is more likely to vote for the candidate

Would Aurora be a better recommendation these days?

https://universal-blue.org/

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Inventory+Management

You could self host an inventory management software

Built by our product and engineering team, in partnership with the University of Cambridge’s department of computer science ​and technology​, Secure Messaging is unlike traditional information-sharing platforms​. The technology behind Secure Messaging conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all by making the communication indistinguishable from other data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users. By using the Guardian app, other users are effectively providing “cover” and helping us to protect sources.

That is interesting. There is also secure drop, which is used by a lot of news organisations including The Guardian

https://securedrop.org/

It takes time to scale up. The bottleneck is usually residency, where we don't have enough doctors to train the new ones

Check your local libraries, or search for maker spaces

For example

https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRNGEN/WPAC/MAKERFAQ?HOMEPRMS=MAKERFAQ

The visitor, in this case, was a white-eared opossum — a marsupial native to the region. Evidently, he’d wandered into the daycare center from the surrounding forest and found a perfectly cozy spot to rest his head.

Neat

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/search/?sort=hotness&type=extension

Does this link take you to the full list?

Organic Maps was on iOS, my guess is that it'll take time to get a new app approved on the iOS store

I’d make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.

This is actually somewhat built into PieFed. Users can import from a lemmy account, and admins can do a bulk community import of the local communities on a particular instance (filtering by number of posts and users in the past week in those communities). However, it's buggy. Eventually it would be nice to have tools to synchronize administration between the instances so that we don't need to repeat actions on both instances.

Furthermore, in the ideal world, “Local” from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.

Agreed :) PieFed does have a 'popular' feed, so another solution would be to have a default feed that we have more control over (ex. picking specific instances or communities). As long as the exact breakdown is communicated to the user, perhaps as a 'learn more' button in the existing "Create an account to tailor this feed to your interests.", I don't think people will mind the admins customizing it to fit the instance. We've discussed in the past whether it is better to have the default logged out view be 'local' or 'popular', and this might help with that problem too.

Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other

This actually exists for the Lemmy -> PieFed direction! @blaze posted some information about it here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/16976004

It could be better, since right now while the PieFed instance does get a copy of all the posts, the Lemmy instance doesn't know about it. Hopefully the various platforms can coordinate some common solution.

Also happy cake day! 🥳

The plan is to hold our one this winter. We missed last winter because we all got busy with other things. Now that we have a set of agreed upon questions ready and a plan for importing/exporting between instances, it should be easy to run ours on schedule :)

https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/

It seems that there are a few common types of sounds

• O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the "Oh-Lee..." Portion
• Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning

Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:

• Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type
• someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different

I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations

Right at the end of the video, there is a twist that may raise the graying eyebrows of Commodore fans around the globe. Perifractic reveals that he received a message direct from Commodore Corporation B.V. that states “yes we can grant you an exclusive license, but your team seems to know Commodore better than we do, we might like to sell you the whole company.”

What 😄

Sadly, we are left with this cliffhanger. Viewers are told to stay tuned for Part 2 of this video, “live and Let Buy.” But we don’t have a date for the video publication. Stay tuned, indeed.

:(

I'm sharing this because of this context:

Doctors urge vaccination following death of Ontario infant infected with measles in the womb

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pregnancy-measles-1.7553851

However, when talking about this story, please also note the last line from this blurb. There is indeed a risk, and in this case there were other complications as well:

A premature infant who contracted measles before birth has died in southwestern Ontario, the province’s chief medical officer of health says,

According to Dr. Kieran Moore, the infant’s mother was not vaccinated against measles.

In a statement Thursday, he said while measles may have contributed to both the premature birth and death, the infant also faced other serious medical complications unrelated to the virus.

I guess the problem is that people aren't familiar with the site, or the joke about Bill Gates

Having the title be "This couples compatibility quiz is an enemy of GNU/Linux" would have been more clear

We're also learning as we go :) In addition to the features mentioned in the post, a big one for regional instances like ours might be the topic lists (once we set those up anyway)

Congrats on the expansion!

Thanks!

The collapsing of downvoted comments is configurable in the user settings, so it's possible to disable it or fine tune it to the way you want it. The discussion is still valid for what the default settings should be

I'm still learning about the karma side, so I don't want to comment on that yet

There is an API but it is slightly different from Lemmy, and it's very new, which is why the app list is small. Right now that includes !interstellar@kbin.earth and using the website as a PWA. As more people use it, more apps should implement support.

The PieFed dev docs say that the API is 95% similar, so hopefully it should be easy enough for app developers to implement

The API is new I believe, piefed.social enabled it recently as well

https://piefed.social/post/817564

Welcome to piefed.ca :)