My past 4 mobile phones were refurbished. I would still be using the OG Pixel (refurbished) if it was not for the lack of security updates, and it was easier to change the battery.

I don’t think it would be taboo to save something that is public available, as you can just as simple visit those pages and print them to pdf for example.

The same goes to things you have access with your account, and it is not bound by a non-disclose agreement (you can still save, but not broadcast it - depending on the laws of your jurisdiction).

I looked into the lemm.ee default profile page, and you might have success with the tools I mentioned.

You just need to navigate these links, and make the tool open the post names.

https://lemmy.ca/u/[email protected]?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts https://lemmy.ca/u/[email protected]?page=1&sort=New&view=Comments

You will need to take in account navigation with “next” buttons, and some pages need to be scrolled down to load all the comments.

If you don’t want to contact the Admins, and you are not pressed for time, put a delay on the tool’s web requests to not overload the servers. The browser add-on might avoid that because it mimics a more natural way of navigating a website.

This is ActivityPub, not Reddit. It is optional, democratic and auditable.

People are not sending posts/comment to be approved first, you can post whatever you want. It is a plus if the community found a bad faith actor and tagged them. So I am not forced to see their disinformation campaign.

all of the comments, including any deleted ones (deleted by the user and deleted by mods/admins)

You probably will not have access to this.

Is there any other method I can do this without resorting to manual saving?

Only if you are an Admin. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html

The data seems to be stored in a postgres database, and could technically be queried.

And if I have no choice other than to save each and every post and comment manually? How should I be doing it?

It depends on your need, if it is for legal purpose, it depends on your jurisdiction. Maybe web archive is enough for this case, https://archive.org/.

Otherwise, you can use the API as others mentioned. Or you can use Selenium/Scrapy/BeautifulSoup to scrape the website.

If you would rather not program something with code, look into browser add-ons that scrape websites, they are mostly visual, and you click on the things you want to save or navigate into. I am not familiar with them to recommend you something, but there are plenty of videos on how to use them.

That said, depending on the security of your instance, your ip/account might get flagged.

Talk with the Admins of your instance first and express your intentions, maybe they can help with what you need.

Yeah, I noticed that the option “local” is pretty much empty on piefed.ca I wonder if we create the same communities there and group them together would work.

Here is their repo, https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues I imagine you can propose some of those ideas there.

I think one of the problems on migrating users right now is how lemmy stores password compared to piefed. https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/712 - But technically, it should work if you ask the user to write a new password.

Some good takes there:

People who gravitate to downtown do so because their supports are all within a walking distance - health care, food, shelter for a bit, government services.

Ironically, those living hand to mouth embrace the 15 minute walkable city other wealthier residents eschew. They live a sustainable lifestyle because they must.

But some arguments and conclusions are a bit weak:

Downtowns have been dying for decades due to shifting buying habits to online, to malls, to going out of town to IKEA and outlet malls.

Cleary it is not the marginalized fault, downtown’s declined has a lot to do with how the city is managed. And there are plenty of functional downtowns around the world where people buy online, Ikea and malls - so it is not their fault either.

I feel like Atlus filled the space Square left after the merge, and it is living the golden age similar to what Square enjoyed in the 90s early 2000s. A bunch of quality titles coming each year in the most diverse genres (I think just missing something like Ehrgeiz, maybe they pull it out with the Sega merge).

Not really sure what is different between the management of Atlus and Square Enix, but I feel like a bunch of Japanese companies are banking more on diluting their IPs and counting on the goodwill of people’s nostalgia. At least Square Enix did not drop everything to pursue the pachinko business (I hope).

It seems that this article as based on this investor release, it has way more details omitted by the gamespot author https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/20250514_01_en.pdf

From ground news summary:

• Brazilian police arrested a man and a teenager on May 3, 2025, foiling a bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga’s concert in Rio de Janeiro.
• Authorities uncovered the plot after identifying an online group spreading hate speech, radicalizing teenagers, and encouraging self-harm.
• Authorities conducted raids at nine sites across multiple Brazilian states such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, confiscating electronic equipment and other items connected to the planned bombing.
• Around 2.1 million people attended the free concert on Copacabana Beach, which aimed to boost the local economy and drew 500,000 tourists.
• The arrests prevented a potentially large-scale attack involving improvised explosives, highlighting authorities’ efforts against extremist online networks.

What the ground news summary did not describe that most publications seem to list are:

• The Brazilian federal police was already investigating other groups like this
• Authorities suspect the group was targeting the LGBTQ+ community.
• The arrested teenager was in possession of child sexual abuse material, and was charged on that.
• Another member of the group (not sure if he was charged) had religious motivations.

Yeah, the admin team of .ca is great. They are organized, open to input and always take the initiative (.ca toughened up on disinformation this election cycle).

Yeah, but our …

It was not supposed to be a negative critic of our instance/admins, on the contrary.

I was replying to the message who said this kind of trolling would be removed and banned right away in any instance, which is not true, I was even surprised that hexbear banned the troll just for that post…

But I just looked, the xiaohongshu2 was not banned for the post, xiaohongshu2 was banned for impersonating another user in bad faith. Hexbears took the post quite well, and the text is still there for people to read.

Some countries allow you to vote in primaries if you will be at voting age by the time of the main elections. It also helps when they have consistent voting days, and alternate elections every 2 years (federal/province for example).

If the provinces and cities also lower the voting age, they will be able to vote much sooner than 18/21.

Nils, if you cannot explain how this voting-age change …

I guess my first paragraph could be a bit more detailed, so all could understand.
It is hard to imagine you ignored it just to throw a tantrum.
So let me go more in depth, and please let me know if you need further assistance.

Context,

The news in Canada reported that young males might vote conservative, from polls, to schools simulations where the conservatives formed a minority government. I imagine this was part of the reason our friend was afraid of young voters - ironically, just as the right-wing voters, victim of their own unfounded fears.

People that took the time to open past the headlines would see a few things, the percentage of males voting conservative is still minimal compared to the total of other parties, and less than other age group. Young women avoid conservatives more than any other group.

The simulations involved kids as young as elementary, depending on the province here in Canada, they might be as young as 5 years old. And even there, the conservatives got only 36% of the votes across all age groups from elementary to high school.

Last, election turnover is very low with the younger audiences.

There are a bunch of “ifs” and stars to align. It is a fraction (16 and 17 years old), of a fraction (males), of a fraction (that lean conservatives) of a fraction (that would go vote), that you and our friend do not want to have the right to vote. And because of that, everyone else from the 16 and 17 years old age group would not be allowed as well.

It is funny that people like you want to limit other group rights because of what a small fraction of the constituents might do, and call it for the good of “progressive initiatives”.

Suppressing voters is not Progressive. As far as I can compare around, places where people have more rights and power, (more democracy) are more progressive.

Lowering the voting age is usually a Progressive instance, in most cases brought up by progressive parties, just look around the globe. Here we have the examples of FairVote and Sunshine.

Progressive does not mean “things I don’t like must go”.

Well, to be fair, I wrote this for others. By the way that you behave, it does not seem like you are interested in understanding, and just went crazy with slogans. I am not sure if you are a troll or a toddler throwing a tantrum.

I find it hilarious users claim progressiveness, while curbing people’s rights.*

American ICE is coming to deport you

Sadly, we already have other groups coming here to kidnap or murder inhabitants, and I am not sure if I will be alive long enough to give ICE a chance to get rid of me.

* You see how I repeat that a few times in the text, I noticed some people like slogans. So I will put in bold here.

Curbing people’s rights is not progressive

Young males voters are swaying…

No rights for a whole group because you do not agree with the political leaning of ~1/4 of them (poor young folks that vote centre and left). Add to this that younger men have a lower turnout voting, than any other age group.

A while we are at it

Young drivers are notoriously bad at driving,

With this logic, I imagine you also want to remove the license from people +50yo. Maybe their voter card as well.
Given their turnout and right-wing tendencies. Also, how bad they drive, given the number of accidents.

Hey, I all for a walkable city, possibly you are right with this license takeover.

but not for North Americans

Oh, yes, we are different because we live on this arbitrary piece of land.
Other countries have internet (better than here) and right-wing pundits as well.

I don’t think irrational fear of what others might do should be the gatekeeper of their rights.

I also do not agree with them paying taxes with no representation.

It’s THEIR future that we vote for

Given that you want to reduce the rights of a group that are active members of the society, can join the workforce and pay taxes, and studied for most of their lives. Just because you do not agree with what a fraction might do. I don’t think you have their best interest in mind.

There are a few .world doing that non ironically. In .ca they always create their own communities. And they usually stay around unless they break the instance rules too many times.

As far as I know, they only get downvotes, nothing more.

That rain smell, I remember being happy when my mom allowed me to play in the rain.

Thanks, great read.

Here we are still having problems to get the referendum going. Because the major parties were alternating for a while, so they always vote against it. It will be difficult to screw them both with disproportionate seats. This recent election, benefited them both.

Is this really your experience with +16 years old? If so, you should get your province to invest more in education.

They(16yo) can drive, they can enlist.

In most provinces, they are choosing their career, trade, university, and with fresh knowledge of history and geopolitics they get from schools.

And there is no magical switch that flips when you turn 18. The sooner they start thinking about their future, the better.

Many countries already allowed 16 years old people to vote, for more than 20 years, and they did not become a misogynist hell-hole.

local candidate

I used to think like that, until I realized that I never met the past 3 representatives from my riding. They sent representatives to knock on my door during the campaign saying yes to any issue I brought up, they never hold town halls, and only returned generic messages when we tried to contact them - when they answer.

The person elected this time does not live in my riding.

All of them voted with the party, and never proposed anything useful.

That was one of the questions I had for the candidates knocking this time, would you vote against the party if their decision would harm “us”(the riding)?

Today, I rather vote for anyone (or party/independent list) in Canada that would relate to my expectations. I do not care where they live, only that they do a good job.

1. Wash your face or any area you want to shave with gentle soap.
2. Use a gentle shaving cream, no scent, no alcohol. If possible, spread it with a shaving brush gently.
3. Shave in the direction of the hair, e.g. your moustache you probably go from nose to lips.
   a. Change your blades often, with a safety razor you most likely want a new blade after each shave. Blades get dull, pull the hair and clog the pores, they will accumulate bacteria over time, causing infections, disposing them after each shave will reduce the chances of those happening.
   b. Try to get good at passing the blade only once, avoid repeating on the same spots multiple times. If struggling, you might want to consider one of those razors that adjust to your face as you move, or an electric trimmer - avoid the ones that pull the hair before cutting.
4. Wash your face again, if possible, use a soap with ceramides and niacinamide (they will help with your skin recovery).
5. Tap your face gently with a clean towel, do not rub it, don’t go hard. Leave some moisture.
6. Use moisturizer (ceramides and niacinamide is a plus)
7. SPF

A lot of the things that happen to your skin can be caused by bacteria, clogged pores by dead skin, dirty, hair, fabric… Those steps will help you minimize the chances and help your skin recover faster after shaving.

If possible, you should visit a dermatologist for a deeper understanding of your skin, and the care you need.

Also, on a special occasion, treat yourself to one of those old school barbers, with hot/cold towels and all the pampers.

Not sure in your riding, but usually, they have different roles and experience level.

One important task is to keep everyone in check. If you reduce that number, the risks of different problems increases. Most recently this

There is a lot of propaganda around the world to discredit elections (usually by authoritarian regimes), so I do not think anyone will take the risk of reducing the number of poll workers.

Elections Canada describes all the roles and processes, from hiring, training, what to do before, during and after the voting day if you are interested in details. https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx

Sadly, we are a bit behind in technology and the costs can persist with electronic voting.

With in-person voting, either we do like Belgium with printing votes (I read people calling it “expensive pen”), or with air-gapped dedicated computers like in South America (the only thing that leaves is one of the storages and a printed sheet with the result of that location). There are the initial investment and we will still need the election workers.

On the other hand, with internet/remote voting, the initial investment in tech, security, and change management will be huge in our current state. You can reduce the numbers of workers with that, but now you will need more expensive people at every step to ensure a fair election.

Countries that uses any kind of electronic voting claim that it improved their elections considerably, including costs, but the upfront cost and the change in culture can scary some people.

(edit: fix typo)

About the electronic vote, I found this when I was trying to find the source code of some of those voting machines. It is a Brazillian explaining in english the process of voting.
https://rl.bloat.cat/r/linux/comments/jth7tj/voting_machines_in_brazil_use_linux_uenux_and/gc7yqic

u/Marcos-Am Nov 14 '20

Some things for the parrots that are only able to repeat what Tom Scott said in his videos.

First, all the voting happens on a 10-hour period. Normally 8 hours but this year will be extended due to Covid.

On our election there is no easy way to do it. We vote on the public schools and each machine is on a separate classroom, about 20 machines per school where I live, each school is about a km of one another, these machines have their own battery and are not hooked to each other. Each one of those machines have a table with a number of rows equal that of all people that are expected to vote in that classroom, each vote is then written in a random row so you cannot trace it back to a vote order. Hacking machines singular machines is possible, but to make significant difference on the voting day you would need to focus on the biggest electoral colleges, in hundreds of schools in a limited period. After the election closes 17 PM GMT -3, all the voting machines have their “memory card” transported to the local electoral tribunal where they are transmitted through and intranet wired to the Superior Electoral Tribunal on Brasilia to count, as far I could understand they count locally as well to double check.

Now, the easiest place to rig votes in bulk is on the electoral tribunals, were you get a lot of party people and police monitoring the count.

Also, I believe no votes are accepted before the end of the voting period, but other person will need to attest this information, maybe you rataktaktaruken.

While all the steps of the voting process have visible insecurities, the scale of the election, the timeframe in which it occurs, and the compartmentalization of incoming votes bring higher reliability to the process.

This information’s can be found here and here part of it was from personal experience as well.

(There are plenty of videos around showing how to vote, how the machine works, the “hackaton” that happens before every election to crack the machines, …)