Just in case anyone wants their freezer to live beyond this immediate lack of self-control

Is the risk that you might hit something important under the ice?

It could be some AB testing

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking/you-wont-die-touching-fentanyl

https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40352-021-00163-5

The second link has some history on where this idea came from

The weird thing about books is that you only really need to write one in order to be a great writer

https://youtube.com/shorts/6PlPZU4ZOh4

Looking forward to trying these new ones

I think we are

Speaking to reporters at a news conference earlier Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will hold firm and push ahead with retaliatory tariffs and other measures until Trump backs off entirely.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-trade-war-deal-1.7476311

The uncertainty from going back and forth is maddening.

Each delay has only come after the tariffs have already started. ‘until he backs off entirely’ is a reasonable ask

Reminds me of the handshake

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iUmo8Y1LRYE

Chapman’s icecream was a recommendation from even before the recent events

Switching local grocery stores could also be reasonably easy (but the exact list depends on where the person lives)

Any reason for switching to Opera over say Firefox and alternatives? Opera is chromium, which makes them susceptible to manipulation from Google. I think open source / nonprofit projects are still worth supporting even if they originate in the US.

Zen browser is a solid recommendation for regular users, it has a beautiful layout and some new features that would make a browser change more palatable.

Solid recommendations on the other stuff, I should pass them along to people

Something feels off with the UI, maybe the rounding or padding?

We went with “forum style” fediverse platform

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users

I was unsure about the change back when ‘Karma’ counts were removed from Lemmy. I don’t think that I have missed them ever, as a user, mod, or admin.

Good time for FOSS keyboard apps to get some more love

Heliboard and Futo were the recommendations from what I remember?

This is very helpful, thank you for sharing!

Do you have any recommendations for training / certifications? A friend asked me recently and I didn’t know what to recommend

edit: Sorry I missed the section where you talked about that. Thank you :)

I hadn’t considered that one before

Someone who bought a Tesla before, who is trying to sell it now, may have to sell it to someone who supports Musk. At a loss at that

Sell their houses to who Ben? FUCKING AQUAMAN!?

A wiki could be cool :)

Lemmy doesn’t have built in wikis, but we could see about setting up something for lemmy.ca only. I know programming.dev tried something similar: https://wiki.programming.dev/

The team behind the annual Canvas also set up Fediverse account based authentication, which could be extended to a wiki platform

Wow I love the color!

[email protected] is decent if you’re looking for the more technological side, since the rules filter out

• Minor app updates
• Government legislation
• Company news
• Opinion pieces

Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

This is the key bit. It’s good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit’s automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives

I’ve seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context:

• someone quoting a news article
• someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
• actual abuse

For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn’t affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated ‘scores’ won’t account for that.

We’re going to see even more annoying algospeak like “unalive”, only it’s going to be in news quotes as well

I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

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

The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

Lemmy has that problem too, but it’s much smaller in scope. Mostly because there’s less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation

Cross posted to [email protected], and looks like someone already shared it on [email protected]