Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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

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Could be worth sharing this around so more people are aware of it. !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !opensource@programming.dev maybe? I can cross post it myself, but I'm not as familiar with the topic to respond to comments/questions

It's not currently there, but it's on our list of things to look into when we revisit our donation options.

Recently another user checked in about Librepay, and I asked for more thoughts. If you have any additional points, we'd appreciate them! I'll copy them into our notes alongside the previous comments

https://lemmy.ca/comment/14581793

Yup, the installation guide says to comment out the things you don't want to run

There's the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit

It could act as a list to go off of, if you don't want to host all of them. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

Overview

Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

• networks: Tor, i2p
• computing: boinc, foldingathome
• archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
• storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it's open to contributions.

What would be an example of a submarine that isn't an Attack submarine, only surveillance?

Thanks! Added it to the social/culture section

Thanks! Deleted this one

Not sure why that's happening, it's happened a few times recently. Sometimes the second post doesn't show up in the feed, but it is still accessible under the different URL

Depending on what restrictions you have, you could try VSCode? That's what students were told to do at my university for remote C / C++ development off the school's servers

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

I'm not familiar with the others, but for vscode

• click the symbol that looks like >< in the bottom left
• potentially install the remote SSH add-on if it asks for it
• log in
• open the left sidebar and tell it to open the folder you are developing in

I imagine it's because that is the source that the person saw the article on and/or they don't notice the issue because of adblock/pi-hole.

I've done that a few times where I link a site that's broken without adblockers, or it has a paywall that only shows up part of the time.

Gentle reminders help! It might be cool to have a bot that checks a resource like ground news and links to the same article on a few alternate sources

Ah, good to know

Kichae did a good job of explaining some of the limitations, and I also agree with you that there's more we can do for user-friendliness while still respecting decentralization.

One of the things we've done is put together the guides above, which I'm hoping can help reduce confusion on how this new platform works and what the differences / benefits are. If they DO help, then one solution could be to share the guides around and hope that it acts as the first introduction for people. There are a lot of confusing resources out there (ex. that infographic that gets posted around), so I'm hoping that over time we can improve these guides over time to be as helpful as possible.

We'd love some feedback on the guides if you have a chance to go through them! In particular, these seem relevant to the areas you were confused about:

• Quick overview of Lemmy (goes over account creation)
• Where to find mobile apps (discusses why there are multiple, and how to pick one
• Quick overview of the Fediverse (goes over why decentralization is key to the Fediverse, and important for fixing the problems with old social media)

In addition, if you have any thoughts on the order of the guide pages and areas that are still confusing

The Lemmy software itself is also open-source, and there's often discussion about what can be improved. Similarly, there are a few other Lemmy compatible projects in the works that are doing things slightly differently, such as Piefed and Mbin. As you get settled in and familiar with things, these communities might be of interest to you:

• !lemmy@lemmy.ml
• !fediverse@lemmy.world

Welcome to lemmy.ca / the fediverse 😊

There's actually no harm in commenting on communities from another instance!

Often there will be one large community for each topic, on some random instance, rather than individual communities on every instance. The diagrams on this doc might help to see how it works: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

It is possible that a community is intended for a certain group of people, and ideally the community name will indicate that. If not, you can open up the community and check the sidebar. For example, !medicine@lemmy.ca is named 'Medicine Canada', and it is intended for Canadian medical professionals / Canadian medical news, while !medicine@mander.xyz is named 'Medicine', and it is the general community for the topic.

We didn't have to make 'Medicine Canada' on lemmy.ca, and in fact, there are many non-Canadian communities on lemmy.ca. It all comes down to what the community mods want the community to be about. The instance is just where they chose to set up shop.

In your case, the sidebar at !aliexpress@programming.dev says:

An unofficial English-speaking channel for discussing Aliexpress and Alibaba, interesting products you find, asking for product recommendations, and any scams by the sellers.

When in doubt, just check the community sidebar :)

Odd, this one got unpinned as well. Just fixed it

Maybe I should make a list of posts to check on every once in a while, until the issue gets fixed

Would you be able to share an example? (Short description or screenshot is fine)

We might be able to clarify or add it to the guides in the future

Welcome :)

If anyone is curious, the post sorting calculations are also public (the code is open source). As a summary:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

• Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
• Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
• Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.

No more hidden algorithms was a big one for me. I personally use 'Scaled', and sometimes flip to the other ones to take a peek

It looks the URL got dropped from your post, likely this one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/measles-outbreak-reported-in-northern-alberta-community-of-john-d-or-prairie-1.7480122

I've seen this a few times recently, and I think the 'create post' UI could be improved for new users, specifically around the image upload and thumbnail options. You can have either a link or an image, but not both, and the thumbnail is applied separately

What I like to do is

• paste in the link
• add the title (if it didn't autofill)
• copy a link to an image from the news article and paste it in the thumbnail field

Lemmy lets you edit any part of a post after posting, so I sometimes fix things if it doesn't look right.

(also welcome to Lemmy.ca 😊)

Some apps (ex. Boost in my case) use polled notifications, where the app checks every hour and makes a notification if there's anything new. Generally Lemmy replies aren't urgent so this hasn't been a problem

✔️ confirmé pour la liste française

✔️ confirmé pour la liste française

✔️ confirmed for the english list