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

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • Flatpak’s Future May Leave Non-systemd Distros Behind

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  • They're somewhat sandboxed, likely to be up to date, and it behaves similarly across different machines. It's nice for GUI programs that don't need access to the wider system, and it won't mess with anything else that I already have installed. I guess it would have similar pros and cons as containerization with Podman/Docker?

    I get the vast majority of my GUI programs from Flathub. I didn't know there was a controversy with it, other than just wanting a different way of doing things.

  • How to get started with pixelfed?

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  • Expanding on a few areas that the other comment didn't cover:

    1. It has a focus on federation with Mastodon, and so you can take advantage of that whole side of the fediverse. For Lemmy, you can tag a community (as if you were tagging a person) and it will show up there. You can't tag a bunch of communities though, and I imagine that is to prevent spam. If you view a Pixelfed user on here, you will only see the posts that tagged a specific community. I'm hoping that changes in the future. Pixelfed was also exploring their own implementation of groups / communities, but it will likely be a while before that is implemented.

    2. It does have DMs

    3. For culture, you could see the results of a census we ran: https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults#_3-2-pixelfed-related-questions

    Generally I would say

    • post as much as you want to
    • if you post something you sourced from elsewhere, just mention it and give credit where its due. People won't complain unless you are lying or trying to take credit for someone else's work

  • Wouldn’t it make more sense for Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Foggy Nelson to be prosecutors or civil rights lawyers instead of defense attorneys?

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  • That might actually work for a chaotic storyline with an antihero version of Two-Face. The dichotomous nature is baked into the character, maybe even too rigidly

  • Featured

    YSK Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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  • Odd, its a pretty old website so maybe something broke. Looks like they have issues with their certificate or something

    When I manually edit it to https, I needed to accept the risk to see it

  • Featured

    YSK Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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  • Featured

    YSK Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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  • What addiction medicine can teach us about depending on AI

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  • When people hear the word "addiction" they often assume it implies catastrophe intoxication, loss of control, destruction. But addiction medicine describes a process long before those outcomes appear: the gradual shift from optional use to psychological reliance.

  • A second Ebola treatment center is set ablaze in eastern Congo, with 18 suspected cases leaving

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  • Even the name "Spanish" flu is because of denials from other nations:

    The outbreak did not originate in Spain,[49] but reporting did, due to wartime censorship in belligerent nations. Spain was a neutral country unconcerned with appearances of combat readiness, and without a wartime propaganda machine to prop up morale,[50][51] so its newspapers freely reported epidemic effects, making Spain the apparent locus of the epidemic.[52] The censorship was so effective that Spain's health officials were unaware its neighboring countries were similarly affected.[53] In an October 1918 "Madrid Letter" to the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Spanish official protested, "we were surprised to learn that the disease was making ravages in other countries, and that people there were calling it the 'Spanish grip'. And wherefore Spanish? ...this epidemic was not born in Spain, and this should be recorded as a historic vindication."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

    I don't think we can convince people to remember it as the more accurate "1918 flu", so maybe the "not-spanish flu"?

  • Lemmy v1.0.0 is in open beta testing now, and has released the new API v4 for app developers

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  • Sounds great :)

  • Any tips on immigration?

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  • In Canada, healthcare is a provincial responsibility and so it might be different across the country. With medications especially, we have a patchwork of overlapping rules and support systems. The new national pharmacare system was supposed to be the first step towards fixing that mess, but unfortunately with the new government:

    https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/05/15/Canada-National-Pharmacare-What-Happened/

    Also no problem and welcome to Canada! :)

    Feel free to ask questions in !canada@lemmy.ca or !askacanadian@lemmy.ca

  • Designing Firefox for the future

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  • I like some of these things, but I'd be ok with them being optional toggles. I remember seeing a Firefox fork with extensive customization options for the UI

    Personally

    • rounded corners make it easier to see what is contained in what. It gives more information than just having everything meet at corners
    • gradients and blurs match the rest of my UI 😄

  • Wayland Comes To Minecraft

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  • With everything running, you’ll be able to launch arbitrary programs and have the windows placed within the Minecraft world as if they were in-game. Users can place the windows in any orientation and can interact with them like any other desktop environment. [EVVIE] has released all of the code under the GPL for anyone wanting to try it out or build on the project itself.

    Oh, that's not what I was expecting 😄

  • Any tips on immigration?

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  • By .gov did you mean the Canadian government sites? If not, these links might help (in order of how helpful it might be):

    https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/settle-canada.html

    https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals.html

    https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/discover-canada.html

    Also, what province are you moving to? You should look into healthcare before you end up needing it. For example, for British Columbia:

    I would be careful about looking at websites from various immigration support companies. Some of the websites I came across seem to be AI generated.

  • Residents burn an Ebola center in Congo as fear and anger grow over the outbreak

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  • So instead of an organized system of monitoring, treatment, and quarantine, you're suggesting the world stick its head in the sand?

  • If I have some spare compute, are there ways I can use it to help an existing fediverse instance?

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  • That might be interesting! If you build on this idea, it would be cool to see ping times with location data, so instance operators can see what the performance is like with real world data. That was something we were concerned about when trying out different alternatives when leaving CloudFlare.

  • do it now

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  • thank you, all of those accounts have been banned, along with any others that matched the pattern from the last week.

    PartyDonut@lemmy.zip, from your previous comment, seems to be unrelated and doesn't match the pattern, and so they were not banned

  • Lemmy v1.0.0 is in open beta testing now, and has released the new API v4 for app developers

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  • Sweet, that was fast :)

  • A drone for handicapped birds offers one more chance to experience flight

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  • Next step is to figure out a way for the bird to pilot the drone, like those vehicles driven by mice or goldfish

  • X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day

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  • This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄

    It doesn't do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Lemmy v1.0.0 is in open beta testing now, and has released the new API v4 for app developers

    lemmy.ml /post/47547535
  • Photon @lemdro.id
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Lemmy v1.0.0 is in open beta testing now, and has released the new API v4 for app developers

    lemmy.ml /post/47547535
  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Lemmy v1.0.0 is in open beta testing now, and has released the new API v4 for app developers

    lemmy.ml /post/47547535
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Announcing the Zulip Foundation

    blog.zulip.com /2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! 🤦🏼

    the.unknown-universe.co.uk /tech-stories/update-conundrum/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

    blog.zulip.com /2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

    blog.zulip.com /2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Lemmyvision 3: Vote for Canada's submission to the contest

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    GitHub - minio/minio: "This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 25, 2026. It is now read-only."

    github.com /minio/minio
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca
    Next Gen

    Framework Laptop 13 Pro and highlights from the Framework

    frame.work /blog/framework-laptop-13-pro-and-highlights-from-the-framework-next-gen-event
  • World News @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Japan warns of slightly increased risk of mega-quake after a 7.7-magnitude one

    apnews.com /article/japan-earthquake-tsunami-0746aebae49fc6cc37e20836ca37d570
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    What tool would you recommend to mirror Lemmyvision music playlists across different platforms?

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca
    CLOSED

    Lemmyvision 3: Nomination thread for Canada

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'

    ccunpacked.dev
  • Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles

    sightlessscribbles.com /posts/the-paperwork-flood/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    RESULTS: Fedecan 2025 Instance Census

    fedecan.ca /en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults
  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca
    Featured

    RESULTS: Fedecan 2025 Instance Census

    fedecan.ca /en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults
  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    "PieFed gets /r/random" - Would it be possible to add this back to Boost?

    piefed.social /c/fediverse/p/1949981/piefed-gets-r-random-like-reddit-used-to-have
  • Data is Beautiful @mander.xyz
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

  • Linux @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

    boilingsteam.com /cachy-os-is-now-the-most-popular-distro-on-proton-db