Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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

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You can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)

How so?

I think it's reasonable that some communities will want to cater to a specific topic / group of people. If you want to discuss a similar topic, there's nothing stopping you from posting about it in another community or making your own community/instance.

If someone doesn't want to engage with you, it's silly to try and force them to engage with you.

April 9

https://globalnews.ca/news/11123627/nintendo-pause-switch-2-pre-orders-tariffs-gaming/

April 12

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-electronics-retaliatory-tariffs-exemption-1.7508923

Especially if no bank account is attached and if it isn't tied to anything on here

https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/about-billing-for-github-actions

@mesamunefire@piefed.social does anything show up when you log in to GitHub and check billing?

Was the timing of the protests the problem in your opinion? The way that it was done?

In your opinion, how should supporters of a party express what they want changed with an electoral platform

Not all voters agreed with those protests. Arguably, the candidate would’ve lost by more if they listened to the protests and addressed the issues that were brought up.

Even if this was true, silencing any criticism isn't the solution. In most parts of the world anyway

I went through some of the links from the article, and there was an update pinned in one of them:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/431

@procyonloiter and I just had a 3-hour in-person talk with @loarie and I am delighted to say that it has completely alleviated my concerns around this entire issue. I went into it seriously contemplating deleting my entire account and many years of work, and I have come out of it feeling like a massive weight has been lifted.

This whole thing has just been very poor messaging and some serious miscommunication, and DOES NOT indicate any actual shift in how iNat is planning to operate.

• The lack of communication updates has been because everyone on staff is freaked out and overwhelmed by the amount of backlash, and in a bit of paralysis about how to appropriately respond. There is no nefarious reason for it.
• The grant from google is indeed a grant, and they are not receiving any data or anything else in exchange for it (I’m sure they’re scraping and stealing stuff anyway but that’s true for anything posted online)
• The “generative AI” mention in the grant is badly worded corporate buzzspeak, and doesn’t accurately reflect anything that will be used here - disregard any association to what you normally expect from those words
• The vast majority of the funds will be used to cover normal operating costs of what iNat does every day. A small amount will be going to some specific grant-related projects, which, again, are not actually genAI. There is no guarantee these things will even be implemented on iNat in the end - if they suck, they’ll be tossed out.
• The staff are very receptive to user concerns, and there will be a chance for people to speak to them and ask specific questions - since it’s a friday and everyone is in different time zones, the details haven’t been fully organized yet - I suggested maybe a drop-in zoom call, or something, where people can join and leave throughout a set time period, so it’s not overwhelmed by a ton of people all competing for talking space at once.

That doesn’t completely cover everything we spoke about, but I’m going to post this now to get it up in the thread- please feel free to ask any questions I might be able to answer!

But in this context you’re referring to the prevention of fascism as “unproductive”.

I'm saying that if the candidate listened to the protests and addressed the issues that were brought up, they may have gotten more votes. Arguably, having MORE protests may have helped them win if it could convince the leadership to make changes.

Outcry from supporters is what convinced Biden to step down, which I think helped the Democrats come closer. Protest is important if it can help a party make the right adjustments in their campaign.

Telling people to stay silent is unproductive.

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

While I still prefer their UI over LibreOffice, I also came across some potential concerns with it

https://www.collaboraonline.com/comparing-collabora-with-onlyoffice/

Would Aurora be a better recommendation these days?

https://universal-blue.org/

What is it? It makes me think of funkopops and other trendy (but otherwise useless and quickly forgotten) collectibles.

See also !vexillology@lemmy.world and similar comms

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?