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otter , 17 hours ago

Welcome!

I don't have specific recommendations on hand because I'm on mobile, but you can look through this guide from !newtolemmy for other ways to discover communities

https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664

Following the promo communities works great so you can passively learn about new things when they get promoted

otter , 2 days ago

Are the messages in her outbox? What some scammers do is they make a new account with the same name and profile picture, to then send messages that look like they're from a friend.

I remember reading about an Facebook phishing thing going around, but that involved getting the password and then spamming out messages. She could try and remember if she got any weird links that she logged in with. Sometimes the scammer sends the harmful link to the followers, so the handbag site might be the problem link

otter , 3 days ago

Usually because resources are limited, both financial and time, so people make do with what they can.

As projects grow, and as the FOSS alternatives improve, projects can switch over.

otter , 5 days ago

I'd love to have tags on apps. So many apps have a simple minimalistic name on the app, which is impossible to remember. I make do by renaming the app with terms I might search by.

ex. "Authenticator Microsoft", or "Vancollect City Garbage Trash Recycling"

otter , 6 days ago

This is wholesome lol

otter , 6 days ago

Is the one you linked mechanical? I wasn't sure

otter Mod , 6 days ago

Others are covering the details of the article, I took a look at the source. It only started up last year:

Canadian Affairs was founded by Lauren Heuser in 2023. You can read why Lauren founded a publication for families and professionals in her founding essay.

Canadian Affairs is independent and nonpartisan. It is wholly owned by Lauren and has no outside investors. It is a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.

Links to the person's past work:

• https://nationalpost.com/author/eheuser/
• https://thewalrus.ca/author/lauren-heuser/

otter , 6 days ago

Ah it's different from what I originally assumed

https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4072&context=smulr

(See page 509)

• knowledge isn't necessary, just assumptions

• "need not be committed while in the heat of passion"

• "The statute also uses the phrase "before the parties ... have separated." This has been interpreted to mean only that the parties are still in each other's company, not that they are still united in the act of copulation"

• "while the husband may justifiably kill his wife's paramour," he may not [...] inflict serious bodily injury (mutulation) upon the paramour without an intent to kill"

• "Further, the wife is not justified in taking the life of her husband's mistress"

otter , 6 days ago

Say what now

otter , 6 days ago

So it looks like this study was questionable for a number of reasons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

There may be better studies that weren't mentioned in the link

otter OP , 9 days ago

My thoughts:

A handful of these changes are things that Lemmy currently allows, or has Github issues for in the queue. Others (mainly moderation ones), are things that would be nice to have here as well. The temporary traffic spike feature could do wonders here with the spam waves

otter OP , 9 days ago

Especially the new pinned posts, it looks like they might be new Reddit only. I guess we'll have to wait and try it once a few subs implement it

otter , 9 days ago

I'd recommend starting with ANKI and looking up guides for that language. You might find add-ons that make it easier to use. While making your own deck is better, you can also download recommended decks to learn vocab. Otherwise there are open access textbooks and courses if you want more structured learning.

As for apps, I saw this one recently: https://simjanos-dev.github.io/LinguaCafeHome/

Other discussions right from the Duolingo community:

• https://forum.duome.eu/viewtopic.php?t=23376-we-need-a-community-driven-open-source-duolingo

• https://forum.duome.eu/viewtopic.php?p=68075-open-duolingo

otter , 9 days ago

Yep, which I think is why it's more important to see what data is being collected and stored, rather than giving up data based on how trustworthy an entity seems

If the tool doesn't collect or log the data to begin with, then there's nothing that can be stolen/taken/demanded

The solution in this case might be for Proton (and the other companies) to list out risks and data collection information along the way.

We need X in order to do Y. Read more on how Y works. Now here are some risks, and how to avoid them:

otter , 9 days ago

This browser extension "would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfeeds, which Facebook algorithmically sorts to drive user engagement," the Knight Institute said in a statement.

Interesting, I've been doing that manually for a while now (not Facebook though, I haven't opened that feed in years).

Here's an article from 2021:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

otter , 9 days ago

I did a search on the image for more information, but instead I noticed something cool

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f899165b-4f95-42f4-b3d2-d443570804d2.png

This exact post is the third result (I clicked through and checked the comments)

otter OP Mod , 10 days ago

My bad, I missed that one

otter , 10 days ago

Maybe it could be specific to each user?

Few ideas

• a community for people to post in on their cake day, where they can comment on some aspect of their life that's improved in the last year / something they're grateful for

• if you come across a cake day account, pop into their history and comment on something you find interesting

otter , 11 days ago

I love the feel of this one, it's... soft in a nice way?

otter , 11 days ago

Futurama - A Hundred Coffees

otter , 11 days ago

This is very mildly interesting, cool find!

otter , 11 days ago

I wasn't sure myself honestly, thought I'd check if someone else brought it up first

I think people get super excited to share the good news that it's not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that

otter , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I would say to just try it out and see how it is! The live USB works nicely and you can decide you don't like a distro and move on rapidly. There are also tools out there that let you load up multiple distros on the USB at once, and then pick which one to use when you boot up.

I went through my own struggles with dual booting Linux some time ago. If you search on Lemmy, you can find those embarrassing posts. It was my fault, I got confident and messed with 'grub' in all the wrong ways, before cutting my losses early and reverting everything because I had other commitments to deal with.

The good thing though is that it's totally possible to put Windows back 100% the way it was before, even after messing up as badly as I did (I couldn't boot into either operating system because the machine couldn't find the boot entry). Once you're ready to replace windows with Linux (or dual boot etc.), make a good backup with something like Macrium Reflect and you should be safe to go for it. I highly doubt you'll make the mistakes I did, the story is to say that you can mess up and be just fine!

As for your use case:

• affinity programs aren't on Linux from what I remember, you might want to experiment and see if you can run it with Wine or if you have an alternative (ex. Dual boot, different programs)
• Not sure about Davinci, comments suggest that it runs ok on Linux. I like KdenLive

As for what people recommended, and what I'm planning to try soon

• Kubuntu (if you want Ubuntu that looks similar to windows)
• Fedora (what I tried last time)
• Linux Mint

otter , 12 days ago

I'm new to OSM as well, but bus_stop=construction might be the right call? Sounds like it's past the planning stage.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dconstruction

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:proposed

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:planned:*

otter , 12 days ago

What aspects do you like about 9gag? (memes, specific content, interface, etc.)

That might help people guide you to something different. Unfortunately I haven't used 9gag in years so I don't know what it's like now

otter OP , 12 days ago

Thank you, that was helpful!

otter , 9 days ago

Search engine indexing, rather than search inside Lemmy/threadiverse platforms

That way people come across the good content when searching for things