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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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Do you have a link to read more about what this is 😄

otter Mod ,
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I think it's silly to generalize any group of people by the actions of a few

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Oh is that what it was 😄

There's an account that I haven't used in years, which gets a "Are you trying to log in?" email every few months.

I got 6 emails at once the other day, figured it was the same junk

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A launcher is the home screen. You can replace the default with something else

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I often add in the subtitle into the post title as a result

Part of a municipal bylaw governing tall grass, weed control was struck down

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What is this other template called?

otter ,
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Others have covered the bot flag, I'll add a bit more to this

Maybe because I use VPN

Generally Lemmy (and Fediverse platforms) don't use sneaky dark patterns or hidden blocks. If you are blocked in some way, there should be something indicating it.

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An article from 2017 with wider context

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/freeland-knew-her-grandfather-was-editor-of-nazi-newspaper/article34236881/

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War.

Ms. Freeland's family history has become a target for Russian forces seeking to discredit one of Canada's highly placed defenders of Ukraine.

Ms. Freeland, who has paid tribute to her maternal grandparents in articles and books, helped edit a scholarly article in the Journal of Ukrainian Studies in 1996 that revealed her grandfather, Michael Chomiak, was a Nazi propagandist for Krakivski Visti (Krakow News).

Krakivski Visti was set up in 1940 by the German army and supervised by German intelligence officer Emil Gassert. Its printing presses and offices were confiscated by the Germans from a Jewish publisher, who was later murdered at the Belzec concentration camp.

The article titled "Kravivski Visti and the Jews, 1943: A contribution of Ukrainian Jewish Relations during the Second World War" was written by Ms. Freeland's uncle, John-Paul Himka, now professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.

In the foreword to the article, Prof. Himka credits Ms. Freeland for "pointing out problems and clarifications." Ms. Freeland has never acknowledged that her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator and suggested on Monday that the allegation was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

In 1996, Prof. Himka wrote about Mr. Chomiak's work for Kravivski Visti, a Ukrainian-language newspaper based in Krakow that often published anti-Jewish diatribes including "certain passages in some of the articles that expressed approval of what the Nazis were doing to the Jews."

But he also said in the article, edited by Ms. Freeland, that Mr. Chomiak had told his family that he was playing a double game as the editor of the newspaper.

"A daughter of the chief editor, who interviewed her father about his wartime experiences, has informed me that Mykhailo Khomiak [Michael Chomiak] and the editorial board as a whole worked to some extent with the anti-Nazi resistance; in particular, they issued false papers for members of the underground," he wrote.

Prof. Himka said that he was never able to verify this information, which he described as "fragmentary and one-sided."

In an interview on Tuesday, Prof. Himka said he never knew that Mr. Chomiak had worked for the Nazis until after his father-in-law passed away and he discovered copies of Krakivski Visti in his personal papers.

Although he acknowledged that Mr. Chomiak was a Nazi collaborator, he maintained that the Germans made the editorial decisions to run anti-Semitic articles and other Nazi propaganda.

"Yeah he was the editor of a legal newspaper in Nazi-occupied Poland. He never signed anything in the paper. He never made policy or that kind of thing. It wouldn't be his call," Prof. Himka told The Globe and Mail. "[The newspaper] also performed a function for Ukrainian culture and kept Ukrainian intelligentsia alive during the war by paying them for articles, not just anti-Semitic articles but articles about Ukrainian culture. It was a bit of a mixed bag."

Ms. Freeland's office offered a short statement when asked for comment on Prof. Himka's writings about Krakivski Visti and her grandfather.

"Dating back many years, the Minister has supported her uncle's efforts to study and publish on this difficult chapter in her late grandfather's past," press secretary Alexander Lawrence said in an e-mail Tuesday evening.

On Monday, Ms. Freeland accused Russia of spreading disinformation when she was asked by reporters about a number of stories that have appeared in pro-Putin websites about Mr. Chomiak's Nazi past.

"I don't think it's a secret. American officials have publicly said, and even [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel has publicly said, that there were efforts on the Russian side to destabilize Western democracies, and I think it shouldn't come as a surprise if these same efforts were used against Canada," Ms. Freeland replied.

She did not directly respond to questions about whether the stories about Mr. Chomiak were true. When The Globe asked her office on Monday to refute the allegation, Mr. Lawrence responded: "People should be questioning where this information comes from, and the motivations behind it."

Conservative foreign affairs critic Peter Kent said it was obvious the Russians dug up details on Mr. Chomiak's past to smear Ms. Freeland.

"It is unacceptable. It seems they are trying smear a minister with historical detail that has probably been misrepresented," he said. "It is unfair and it is typical of what we have seen in other countries and it has nothing to do with her ability to represent Canada."

Ms. Freeland is a fierce critic of Russia's annexation of Crimea and was banned from travelling to Russia in 2014, along with 12 other Canadians who had advocated for Western sanctions against the Putin regime.

Stories published in pro-Russian websites have said Ms. Freeland's strong stand against Russian aggression in Ukraine is linked to her grandfather's past.

Ms. Freeland has written that her maternal grandparents fled Ukraine in 1939, describing them as "political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent Ukraine."

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This is very cool, thank you! Sometimes when I post here, I link to a related research paper. A lot of research paper sites are a pain to use, and even harder to search with

The share menu seems to give me this

Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse

https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871
https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871

How hard would it be to have some openparchment related links at the top of the article pages? Or perhaps a way to link to the articles details page directly?

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    I've been learning more about Patreon recently, and it seems to be a half-decent platform that creators find genuinely appealing.

    I don't agree with all the points here, but I'm willing to hear them out and see what they come up with.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/patreon-algorithms-social-media-internet.html

    The Fediverse has some limitations around creator-made content, and maybe something like Patreon can fill in those gaps? At least until if / when they enshitify...

    otter ,
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    @JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar JoYo , I'd be curious if you did the same experiment but with a [Free public access] tag in the title, or something similar.

    I would also like to support non-google / non-ad-revenue-fueled platforms when I can. Seems like a lot of people might not know that they had free access to it

    otter ,
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    That's a good point ImmyJ

    lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are both compatible and run by the same organization :)

    otter ,
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    For people that actually want something like that, check out !taneggs@lemmy.ca

    otter ,
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    The other comment said "self-deleting"

    For the past short while, one person has been creating and deleting accounts repeatedly. It hurts discussion because the threads keep disappearing. It's harmful behavior that deserves to be called out

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    I prefer the CBC Gem link, but I don't think it's possible to link a specific video

    You could add a screenshot or episode number, else the videos are also on YouTube

    https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyJPHbRnGaZeajS8uAtr8cyc19TYBZZ9

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

    otter ,
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    You need the https:// portion in your link, else it doesn't work for others

    https://lemmy.world/comment/21313354

    (Also thank you, I'll be saving this link myself 😄)

    otter ,
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    Yup, this is the one I've been seeing in a lot of guides. I'm not sure how it compares to the other ones, but it was easy enough when I tried it.

    The process for a clean install would be something like:

    1. select the region and keyboard but do not connect to wifi, instead hit shift + F10 and run start ms-cxh:localonly to have a local only account
    2. Once the desktop loads, connect to the Internet and (assuming the recent Windows update didn't break everything again) run updates through the UI
    3. Run Win11Debloat to remove/disable junk and to make common adjustments
    4. Run appwiz.cpl for anything that was missed

    Bonus

    • Winget for apps (or UniGetUI if you prefer a GUI)
    • WinHawk and PowerToys for quality of life improvements

    You can try Chocolatey too, but I gave up on it recently because of constant errors and questionable community packages

    otter ,
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    Generative AI "anatomy" diagrams gross me out almost every time. It has a similar effect as those old trypophobia images

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    I'm not sure why this comment is downvoted, it's not incorrect and also acknowledges that generative AI is a bad source.

    Nearly every type of source, no matter how good it is, has an official way to cite it. There are even guidelines on citing in person conversations, social media posts, tiktoks, etc.

    People are allowed to cite it, but that doesn't mean they should be. Especially in an academic setting lol.

    imo another big concern is that half the search results are now LLM slop. Someone might be trying to avoid generative AI and still end up citing a slop article that they didn't realize was AI.

    Sources:

    https://guides.library.ubc.ca/GenAI/cite

    https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/personal-communications

    https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/cite-generative-ai-references

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    Hmm, what's the etiquette for posting or other federated posts on some of the other reddit-analogues? From what I see you can just mention a or group in a post and it will create a post in that group.
    But is that actually something the users of those platforms want?

    fediverse@lemmy.world icon Fediverse

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    There are lots of good suggestions already. If you want to explore how the different threadiverse platforms display your posts, look into Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB.

    kbin.social no longer exists but the project has continued as Mbin. For fediverse discussion communities you have fediverse@lemmy.world icon Fediverse (on Lemmy), fediverse@piefed.social icon Fediverse (on Piefed), !activitypub@community.nodebb.org (nodeBB)

    otter OP ,
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    I'm looking forward to seeing if it snaps onto the play button after opening some content, that's the main issue I had on Android TV

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    Nice! This is still my favourite android client for Jellyfin. Fladder is still too new, and I hit issues whenever I try it.

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    There are emulators of a lot of old calculators online. Is this one yours?

    https://archive.org/details/ti-v200

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    I looked up "robot kicks man" and found this

    The video:

    https://xcancel.com/CyberRobooo/status/2005437313837576321

    The article:

    https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/humanoid-robot-teleoperator-kicks-himself-where-it-hurts/

    The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree’s G1 robot for example, is trained partly through teleoperation whereby a human operator wears a motion-capture suit or uses controllers to perform particular movements or entire tasks, with the robot mirroring the movements in real time.

    But teleoperation clearly carries some risks, especially if you get too close to the robot you’re training.

    But the teleoperator then turns slightly to perform a big kick. Unfortunately for the teleoperator, the robot, mimicking his movements, performs the same kick, catching the guy right where it hurts.

    He drops to the ground, letting out a yelp of pain as he falls. Of course, the robot falls to the ground too. If it’d been equipped with speech capabilities, we’d have likely heard a yelp, as well.

    otter ,
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    The video I found is from Twitter and some people avoid it, so I left in the description

    I'll reorder it though

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    Nice, and thanks for posting here! We have a lot of discussion about projects, and it's helpful when the creator/developer is around to respond to comments directly 😄

    I saw the update on GitHub about the goal of working on it full time. I also swapped over from StirlingPDF and I'm excited to see where this project goes. Best of luck :)

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    I only used Stirling briefly before I learned about BentoPDF, so I don't think I can give a fair comparison. I picked Bento because it felt faster and "simpler", and I prefer not having to worry about accounts/upload/storage.

    Other concerns with Stirling:

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    Relevant bit

    The DMCA filing states that several files in the Rockchip MPP repository are derived from FFmpeg’s libavcodec sources. It lists AV1, H.265, and VP9 decoder files, and claims the copied code is clear because of matching structure, comments, and commented-out calls to FFmpeg functions with their original names.

    Much of FFmpeg, including libavcodec, uses the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. This license allows reuse, but only if certain rules are followed. These rules include keeping copyright notices, giving proper credit, and ensuring any shared code remains under an LGPL-compatible license.

    The DMCA notice says Rockchip broke these rules by removing the original copyright and author details, claiming the copied code as their own, and sharing it under the Apache license, which does not meet LGPL requirements here.

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    Sherpa links to this page, if anyone wants to preview what the voices sound like

    https://huggingface.co/spaces/k2-fsa/text-to-speech

    From the ones I've tried so far, csukuangfj/vits-piper-en_US-amy-medium|1 speaker sounded the most clear and natural for GPS / driving directions. If someone finds other good ones, I'd appreciate it :)

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    Some acronyms are regional. Maybe it's very common where you live, but uncommon elsewhere

    Some other things I considered

    • Lite
    • Long Term (like LTS)
    • some limited edition model I wasn't familiar with

    I would have asked to clarify as well

    How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data | Le Monde ( www.lemonde.fr )

    Investigation | Using easily accessible advertising data, Le Monde was able to pinpoint the identities, home addresses and daily routines of several dozen people working for sensitive official entities....

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    If you can load the raw markdown, then you can copy and paste with the markdown link formatting.

    I think the Reddit Enhancement Suite added a button to posts that would let you display the source. I can't check that right now.

    For Lemmy, open a post on the website and look for the paper icon. That will let you view the source

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    Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

    Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

    ISO Opensource, Selfhosted, Web Trends Monitor

    Looking for a self hosted, web search trends monitor. I have looked at Plausible Analytics, OpenSearch, Matomo, and some other website analytics platforms, but I'm not necessarily wanting to monitor a specific website(s). Rather, I want to monitor what people are searching for on the internet....

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    Your account is marked as a bot, you can change that toggle in your account settings

    otter ,
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    Does the amount of water affect the rate of growth, or is it a timing thing?

    Am I absorbing water like a sponge, where I'd grow much faster in a pool vs. the rain

    Or is it a reaction to any prolonged contact with water

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    They've been dealing with some recent federation issues, and they had scheduled maintenance today

    https://lemmy.world/post/39753806

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    Amazing!

    I was worried we were going to have to manage two separate lists. Yay for interoperability!

    otter ,
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    If you add three back ticks (```) to the beginning and end of the list, it will format as a code block instead of a bunch of links

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