Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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

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Thanks! I just made the post and pinned it here: https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574

It might be a one night event this time, since it's lunar eclipse related.

For me, the cool thing was watching the moon slowly get consumed. I'm looking forward to seeing some high quality time lapses

I see it as a launching point/ inspiration, like seeing what a friend comes up with and then trying something better yourself

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.

Congrats 😊

We got clear weather for once too (Vancouver)

This one might help: https://brickit.app/

Build new creations from your old bricks

Just scatter your bricks and take a photo. Brickit will show you hundreds of ideas for what to build with them, along with the exact location of each piece you’ll need.

I haven't tried it myself, you could give it a try and post what you make?

Could we have a recurring thread like this? It helps to keep the community lively, and would allow for fresh news / updates

You could use a tool like this, or post manually?

https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule

Just saw the other post, deleting this one

If anyone manages to get a good photo, please make a post!

Here and/or pixelfed 😊

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

wow nice one

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

Totally :)

We've got a few link in this post, and I can add the note about language settings being wrong. What other links would be worth including?

I can also pull out content and put them in the post directly, such as the lemmyapps and lemmyverse links

https://lemmy.ca/post/39167034

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

If we do grow another one, then I would love a more generic name

I haven't seen the subreddit in a long time, but similar to !writingprompts@literature.cafe type communities, I wonder if there is less interest in making the content when AI tools can also do it (at a much lower quality). I would much rather look at what a human created, but I worry people aren't as motivated to try it when they can generate it?