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The video was taken on Highway 16 between Prince Rupert and Terrace shows a black bear family, including a young spirit bear, heading into the forest.


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[–] otter 5 points 20 hours ago

We appreciate you as well! 😁

[–] otter 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Your friend Morty looks fun

Also happy cake day!

[–] otter 1 points 1 day ago

Makes sense, and thank you!

[–] otter 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there a recommended way for other instances to load the old posts that were added in the new community? Right now we only see the new content that is on [email protected] (2 posts)

[–] otter 10 points 1 day ago

I commented this in the other thread, sharing it here as well

I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅

When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.

Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it’s a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.

Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It’s time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users

[–] otter 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅

When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn't confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.

Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it's a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.

Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It's time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users

[–] otter 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh nice, it's officially been 2 years on Lemmy for me 🥳

[–] otter 2 points 1 day ago

https://selfh.st/apps/?directory=Companion&companion=Wallabag

The selfh.st directory only has that one app. If you do find something, you could submit it there as well :)

[–] otter 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That's cool, how do you get it to output so much text accurately?

There actually is a BBS style interface for Lemmy

https://neonmodem.com/

https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem

 

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Numerous first responders from police, fire and ambulance initially attended with the support of the Canadian Coast Guard divers to attempt a rescue.


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It's not a product that you can buy, but a very interesting DIY project

Here is the link from the video description: https://www.etherdyne.net/evalkit

[–] otter 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I made another comment in this thread. I find that it is more similar to Mbin (the successor to Kbin), but it's somewhat more popular right now.

There is a comparison of the features here: https://lemmy.ca/post/45413094/16944475

[–] otter 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It has some quality of life features that people seem to like, which Lemmy doesn't have yet. I'm still getting familiar with it myself. I've heard that blocks work better, and that it lets you follow Mastodon/Pixelfed users.

It's made by a different team, and since it's built with Python & Flask, I imagine development is much faster compared to Lemmy (Rust).

There is a comparison of the features here: https://lemmy.ca/post/45413094/16944475

[–] otter 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think this could work well!

As the other comments mentioned, determining activity might not be that easy. Do we actually need point #3? If a community is inactive and doesn't have any content (good or bad), it's not going to affect the admins much. It might end up adding more work for admins if they need to keep adding new mods to communities that don't have much going on. We might also end up with having lots of tiny communities locked, which would discourage people from posting.

I think point #4 takes care of the problem pretty well already. If the mod isn't active enough to resolve the reports within 24-48 hours, then the community could be locked.

 

I don't see a thread in this community yet, so I thought I'd make a post. Where should this community be moved to?

Tagging @[email protected]

 

I don't see a thread about it in this community yet, I'd love to see this community move somewhere before the shutdown

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Piefed is another instance type that is growing in popularity, and a few instances are now turning on the API. As such, apps are also implementing support.

It would be great if Boost would support it too. Hopefully the extra development overhead isn't too bad.

Some recent discussion: https://piefed.social/post/817564

The page for developers:

https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/

The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.

That same link: https://freamon.github.io/piefed-api/

 

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

The covert tracking—implemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackers—allows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they're off-limits for every other site.

 

This post for example.

https://lemmy.ca/post/45288272

It is readable for a moment, but then the image slides to the left and the text slides with it, causing the first part of every line to be off screen and unreadable

 

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So, you’ve got a receding hairline in 2025. You could visit a dermatologist, sure, or you could try a new crop of websites that will deliver your choice of drugs on demand after a video call with a telehealth physician. There’s Rogaine and products from popular companies like Hims, or if you have an appetite for the experimental, you might find yourself at Anagen.

Anagen works a lot like Hims—some of its physicians have even worked there, according to their LinkedIn profiles and the Hims website—but take a closer look at the drugs on offer and you’ll start to notice the difference. Its Growth Maxi formula, which sells for $49.99 per month, contains Finasteride and Minoxidil; two drugs that are in Hims’ hair regrowth products. But it also contains Liothyronine, a thyroid medication also known as T3 that the Mayo Clinic warns may temporarily cause hair loss if taken orally. Keep reading and you’ll see Latanoprost, a glaucoma drug. Who came up with this stuff anyway?

The group behind the Anagen storefront and products it sells is HairDAO, a “decentralized autonomous organization” founded in 2023 by New York-based cryptocurrency investors Andrew Verbinnen and Andrew Bakst. HairDAO aims to harness the efforts of legions of online biohackers already trying to cure their hair loss with off-label drugs. Verbinnen and Bakst’s major innovation is to inject cash into this scenario: DAO participants are incentivized with crypto tokens they earn by contributing to research, or uploading blood work to an app.

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