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[–] otter 2 points 2 weeks ago

I remember hearing some concerns with the tool before it was acquired by Mozilla, did they end up resolving those?

[–] otter 1 points 2 weeks ago

Can you try going through each tab and pressing the two check marks button up top

Else you might need to log in to your web instance and clear it there

[–] otter 7 points 2 weeks ago

The way you see nutrition labels on food packaging is about to change. By 2025, new front-of-package labels will start appearing on grocery store shelves, and by January 2026, they’ll be mandatory.

Over the past two decades, nutrition labelling has evolved into a cornerstone of public health strategies worldwide. Traditional back-of-package labels, which provide comprehensive nutritional details, are often overlooked due to their complexity and placement, making them less effective in guiding consumer choices.

Front-of-package labels address this issue by simplifying key nutritional information and positioning it in a more prominent, visible space. This streamlined approach has proven successful in leading consumers toward healthier choices, as research indicates that simplified, visible labels can influence purchasing decisions

[–] otter 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the resource I go to when I need to check something, and it should be excellent for learning more on some privacy topics.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

After that you might need to go find another resource for the specific technical topics. They have a discussion section, so you can ask for recommendations there?

[–] otter 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good to know, thank you!

[–] otter 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

:)

This photo makes the little guy look small, while also giving off lion king pride rock vibes.

Is that a friend

[–] otter 6 points 2 weeks ago

We have already been seeing an increase in new legitimate users joining these past few days. Is this happening to any other instances?

[–] otter 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

I thought that it would be photos and timestamps for when people entered and exited the washroom, which would already be controversial

Notably, when the worker would not open the bathroom door for long, the other staffer would stand on the ladder and use the phone to click the pictures.

That sounds illegal

[–] otter 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reminded me to check on this Kickstarter I saw ages ago

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solidfactory/the-cup-a-bug-a-no-kill-bug-catcher-by-solid-factory/description

Looks like they made it, I might grab one at some point

https://cupabug.com/product/cab/

[–] otter 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's a valid concern since this is an area of the Fediverse that requires more oversight for safety, and smaller instances may not have the personnel for it.

I think it can still work, but something like this should be structured so that:

  • People moderate local groups, similar to how communities work on Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin
  • You join the group that is local to your region, or to your hobby

That way it isn't on the admins to look over everything, and moderators can take action on what they have experience with.

Past that, the usual rules apply when buying something from people online:

  • meet up in person, unless they person's profile makes you trust them
  • meet in a public place, even better if it is a place that is designated for such meetups
  • don't pay them online before you have seen and tested the item
[–] otter 2 points 3 weeks ago

hey it looks like you posted a few times. Two of them have discussions already, but maybe you can delete this one?

[–] otter 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh the twitter post

I didn't notice where the quote ended

 

A friend was asking, and it would be nice to have one or two to recommend.

Bonus if it's on Google Play in addition to Fdroid, but not necessary.

Some recommendations in these threads:

Some discussion on apps (including non-FOSS) here:


Leading Recommendation from the comments

The leading recommendation seems to be Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

Summarizing what people shared:

  • accessible: it is on F-droid, Google Play, & iOS App Store
  • does not allow any third-party tracking
  • the project got support from "PrototypeFund & Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Superrr Lab and Mozilla"
  • Listed features:
    • "Your data, your choice: Everything you enter stays on your device"
    • "Not another cute, pink app: drip is designed with gender inclusivity in mind."
    • "Your body is not a black box: drip is transparent in its calculations and encourages you to think for yourself."
    • "Track what you like: Just your period, or detect your fertility using the symptothermal method."

Their Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dripapp

 

This release has fixed some CVE Reports reported by a third party security auditor and we recommend everybody to update to the latest version as soon as possible. The contents of these reports will be disclosed publicly in the future.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/8758930

If you're using Vaultwarden, you should update because of security fixes.

 

There is a table of examples in the link. Some I saw include:

Desert

  • desert Latin dēserō ("to abandon") << ultimately PIE **seh₁- ("to sow")
  • Ancient Egyptian: Deshret (refers to the land not flooded by the Nile)  from dšr (red)

Shark

  • shark Middle English shark from uncertain origin
  • Chinese 鲨 (shā)  Named as its crude skin similar to sand (沙 (shā))

Kayak

  • Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (kayak) Proto-Eskimo *qyaq
  • Turkish kayık ('small boat')[17] Old Turkic kayguk << Proto-Turkic kay- ("to slide, to turn")

A lot of these could be TIL posts of their own.

I also wonder if some of these are actually false cognates, or if there is a much earlier common origin with false associations that came afterwards

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22332949

JD Vance said that ‘American power comes with certain strings attached’

Archive link

 

Caption:

A juvenile viscacha stretches out after a nap in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Learn about the animal: wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscacha

Photographer:

Image Source: joelsartore.com/ani012-00016

Joel Sartore is an award-winning photographer, speaker, author, conservationist, and the 2018 National Geographic Explorer of the Year. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, and an Eagle Scout. His hallmarks are a sense of humor and a Midwestern work ethic.

 

I saw this post and I was curious what was out there.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113444325077647843

Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21666337

Bitwarden isn't going proprietary after all. The company has changed its license terms once again – but this time, it has switched the license of its software development kit from its own homegrown one to version three of the GPL instead.

The move comes just weeks after we reported that it wasn't strictly FOSS any more. At the time, the company claimed that this was just a mistake in how it packaged up its software, saying on Twitter:

It seems like a packaging bug was misunderstood as something more, and the team plans to resolve it. Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model in place for years, along with retaining a fully featured free version for individual users.

Now it's followed through on this. A GitHub commit entitled "Improve licensing language" changes the licensing on the company's SDK from its own license to the unmodified GPL3.

Previously, if you removed the internal SDK, it was no longer possible to build the publicly available source code without errors. Now the publicly available SDK is GPL3 and you can get and build the whole thing.

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