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

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Yup, that seems to be in line with the article

Male birds-of-paradise often have these patches next to stark black [or] dark plumage, so the added effect of biofluorescence may aid in making these signal areas even brighter while being used during displays,” added Martin.

For the camouflage side, they said this

In females, however, the phenomenon might have a different function. “The location and patterns of their biofluorescent plumage of many species are much more in line with its possible use as camouflage,” she said.

I'm curious what that refers to. Maybe it would look like sunlight filtering through the leaves?

Welcome back 😊

Any communities worth looking at?

If you're looking for communities related to those recent events, then !buycanadian@lemmy.ca and !canada@lemmy.ca come to mind as being relevant.

Otherwise a lot of new communities have emerged (or migrated) from 2 years ago. We have this guide now on finding communities, you could try the lemmyverse suggestion with topics you're looking into

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities

existential version of https://read.gov/aesop/052.html

But, we could

I'll see if I can remember to share more of them. If there is an RSS feed somewhere, we could ask the Ponder bot to do it each time

Unrelated, you and the other user that commented in this thread (@Snowstorm@lemmy.ca) both joined on the same day just 1 year apart, I thought that was fun

I'd be curious too

If helpful, this is a Canadian resource that I use when picking products because their recommendations criteria aligns with what I want (might not be the case for everyone)

https://dermatology.ca/public-patients/recognized-products/product-recognition-programs/

The two brands I looked up so far were not Canadian, but I'd be curious about which ones are

I'm not sure if there was a particularly viral post (aside from a few mentions of r/BuyCanadian), but I know we've also been mentioned in comment sections all over. Copying from another comment:

Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

• wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
• concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
• Reddit's recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
• learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

Welcome :)

We ban spammers and remove all their content fairly quickly once we get a report, sometimes within minutes if we're online at the time. Could you report the post/message so we can deal with it?

For what it's worth, once in a while I'll search the spam URLs and the same junk is posted across Reddit and other sites. Worse, some of those posts have been up for months

I'm not sure if this one counts as PC gaming, so if it doesn't quite fit I'm happy to delete it

How does that work, is it done through school?

There was some discussion about it here (Canada) last summer

https://globalnews.ca/news/10610765/bc-mandatory-swimming-lessons/

Adding to the question, keep an eye out for any songs by Canadian artists! We can submit the best ones in the next !lemmyvision@jlai.lu

Thanks! I've noted that down

That's very considerate, thank you :)

I've played with bookmarklets before, so it wasn't too much trouble. I don't normally use Alexandrite, but from my quick exploration it seems that Alexandrite URLs are very similar to the default ones, where it just appends alex.lemmy.ca/ to the start. If that is the case, the following steps should work. The steps are for Firefox, but it should be similar on other browsers:

1. Right-click on the bookmark bar and click Add Bookmark
2. Put anything you want in the name
3. In the URL field, paste in this block of code:

    
javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://lemmy.ca/', 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/');
    }
})();

  

When you are on any lemmy.ca page, clicking on the bookmark should take you to the corresponding alex.lemmy.ca page. You can also make one to go in the opposite direction, with this block of code:

    
javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/', 'https://lemmy.ca/');
    } else if (currentURL === 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca') {
        window.location.href = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    }
})();

  

Hopefully that works!

We haven't revisited our donation methods yet, but we will at some point.

If you have a moment, could you share why you'd prefer to have Librapay / Open collective over the existing options? No wrong answers, I just wanted to copy it into our notes for when we revisit all that

We're pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those records here, but as a warning before you open the page, "Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material": https://lemmy.ca/modlog

So far we've only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn't keep operating.

It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada's/Canadians' response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they're going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it

Hopefully that makes sense?

Here is the description from where I got it

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Beaver_-_Castor_du_Canada.jpg

and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids

If you're on desktop, it might be possible to set up a JavaScript bookmarklet for that. I can take a look tonight.

You would still open the lemmy.ca link first, but you wouldn't need to modify the URL manually. You would click on the bookmarklet

Totally!

We were planning to do another census this winter, but we got busy with the new servers and spinning up new platforms.

You might have seen other comments asking about Pixelfed and Friendica. Pixelfed is to instagram in the way that Lemmy is to Reddit, and we're in the process of setting up a Canadian instance of Pixelfed right now. If all goes well, we may get more new people joining through there