Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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

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I don't think they want forks, they incorrectly assume it's difficult.

Guys, Mastodon is complex and confusing. It will never be adopted massively. We need alternatives.

Mastodon has simplified a lot the past few years and is as simple as Bluesky. Any more and they would need to get rid of the ability to federate completely. Not even Bluesky is like that lol

What is this other template called?

The first two replies saying this didn't happen both have

• AI generated profile pictures (one even has the watermark)
• verified checkmarks
• bios pretending to be real people

For clients, you could include BetterBird

https://www.betterbird.eu/

https://blog.betterbird.eu/

Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will.

Betterbird is better than Thunderbird in three ways: It contains new features exclusive to Betterbird, it contains bug fixes exclusive to Betterbird and it contains fixes that Thunderbird may ship at a later stage. Please refer to this feature table for examples. This should give you an impression of where the project is headed.

It has a number of usability improvements over regular Thunderbird. In the context of this project, I believe this one is EU based.

Appreciate it :) These posts can be forever controversial for which items are included, and I appreciate that you're putting in an effort to include all that extra context. Like the Proton CEO bit for example.

For the post, you seem to have put the Reddit thread as the post title, you can edit it to fix it.

When linking an image and an associated link, I do the following:

• Title: something descriptive
• URL: <image link>
• Post body: the URL, ideally with a description so people know what it is. Like Source: <the link>

Others have covered the bot flag, I'll add a bit more to this

Maybe because I use VPN

Generally Lemmy (and Fediverse platforms) don't use sneaky dark patterns or hidden blocks. If you are blocked in some way, there should be something indicating it.

I could have sworn I dropped a button here

Also Canada, now it's back to only 1Tb

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Neat! Would love to see more from there if you have more photos 😄

Right, good point

This is very cool, thank you! Sometimes when I post here, I link to a related research paper. A lot of research paper sites are a pain to use, and even harder to search with

The share menu seems to give me this

    
Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse

https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871
https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871

  

How hard would it be to have some openparchment related links at the top of the article pages? Or perhaps a way to link to the articles details page directly?

I think the confusion is in the way it's displayed. The notation in the comic is ambiguous, where the division is shown as a symbol, while the multiplication is implied with the brackets, so some people see the question as 8/(2*(2+2))=1, while others see it as 8/2*(2+2).

For the later, my understanding is that multiplication and division actually have equal priority and are solved left to right (rather than an explicit order as PEDMAS and BEDMAS seem to suggest). So the second interpretation would give 8/2*(2+2)=8/2*(4)=4*4=16

The reason this isn't a problem more often is because

• math questions should be written unambiguously, using symbols everywhere and fraction bars
• in real life problems, there is a certain order in which you manipulate the numbers, and we can use correct notation (with an excessive number of brackets if needed) to keep it crystal clear

Also the (2+2) bit isn't relevant to the confusion. We might as well replace it with 4 when discussing the problem. No one should be messing that bit up

That's a good point @ImmyJ@lemmy.ca

lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are both compatible and run by the same organization :)

For people that actually want something like that, check out !taneggs@lemmy.ca

Which means we should also be able to see it from here :)

!meta@postcall.pub

!general@postcall.pub

So example, this is another nodebb community: !activitypub@community.nodebb.org

!general-discussion@community.nodebb.org

While Lemmy doesn't have a wiki yet, you can totally have a calendar elsewhere to then add to the sidebar and/or as a pinned post in the community. There are also some bots that you can use to automatically post content from an RSS feed.

We have previously considered running an instance of Mobilizon, which is another event sharing platform that federates, but we weren't sure if there was interest for it. Mobilizon/Gancio do seem like decent platforms for what you are trying to do. If there is enough interest in having our non-profit (Fedecan) run an instance of one of them, we're still open to doing it!

Since this community is still fairly small, you might not get that many people familiar with Gancio here. You could try asking in !fediverse@lemmy.world or a similar community.

In the academic year of 1994-1995, I ended up doing graduate work in Eastern Europe studying nationalism and ethnic minorities. Though I totally love the people, cultures and landscape of Eastern Europe, I was deeply homesick for the forests of Cascadia, specifically the Willamette Valley forests I grew up around. One day in spring as I sat on a hill with my companion, I explained to her what the landscape of my home looked like. I said those vast vineyards if at my house would be vast green forests; the distant mountains of the Matras would be the snowcapped Cascades with white clouds hovering above; and above that might be the blue sky. The three colors of blue, white and green came to mind and that the pine tree in front of us would be a Douglas fir. The image stuck in my mind and spent a lot of time obsessively drawing the flag which really annoyed my soon to be wife. That period of time was crucial in regards to what was happening in Cascadia at that point.

It doesn't sound like that much of a stretch. If you got someone unfamiliar with these flags and had them pick some colors, I wouldn't be surprised if they picked the same ones.

The flag on the other wiki cites this page for the flag

https://web.archive.org/web/20200613033606/https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/northwest-american-republic

The "Republic" and its flag are based on the so-called "Northwest Imperative," a longstanding call by some white supremacists, including Covington, for white people to move to the Pacific Northwest and establish their own country there. Covington promoted this idea on the Internet and in various novels.

Covington, ostracized by most of the white supremacist movement, had few followers, but did have a significant Internet presence that could catch the attention of would-be white supremacists.

Then from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Covington

He launched a website in 1996; using the pseudonym Winston Smith (taken from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four), Covington became one of the first neo-Nazi presences on the Internet

So if anything, it sounds like this guy based his flag off of the other one because it was popular at the time, and continues to be more well known than his one.

So again:

• two flags can have the same color scheme and be ideologically opposed to each other
• It doesn't make sense to crap on symbols because a separate group is using a similar symbol. Doing so only weakens the positive symbol and strengthens the bad one

Often flags from a region will have similar color schemes, even if they are ideologically opposed to each other.

If there's overlap between the groups of people that use the flag, then that's a problem

I prefer the CBC Gem link, but I don't think it's possible to link a specific video

You could add a screenshot or episode number, else the videos are also on YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyJPHbRnGaZeajS8uAtr8cyc19TYBZZ9

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WtSGiuyT_wE

Yup, this is the one I've been seeing in a lot of guides. I'm not sure how it compares to the other ones, but it was easy enough when I tried it.

The process for a clean install would be something like:

1. select the region and keyboard but do not connect to wifi, instead hit shift + F10 and run start ms-cxh:localonly to have a local only account
2. Once the desktop loads, connect to the Internet and (assuming the recent Windows update didn't break everything again) run updates through the UI
3. Run Win11Debloat to remove/disable junk and to make common adjustments
4. Run appwiz.cpl for anything that was missed

Bonus

• Winget for apps (or UniGetUI if you prefer a GUI)
• WinHawk and PowerToys for quality of life improvements

You can try Chocolatey too, but I gave up on it recently because of constant errors and questionable community packages