I haven’t tried anything other than KDE plasma, but Niri looked interesting. CachyOS has Limine as a boot manager option, and I liked it

The distro has a lot of desktop environment options in general

https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/desktop_environments/

CachyOS is pretty popular right now :)

Each instance is run by a different team, often based in different countries and jurisdictions. Day to day, the main differences will be around content policies (moderation, how openly federated it is)

It’s like picking between different email providers, just that all have more or less the same features.

We have these guides too

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview

I like these kinds of posts :)

If anyone else finds it helpful to write out what they’ve learned, please do share it. Its a nice break from the subtle soapbox type posts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

Its an umbrella term that is more common in North America

Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited,[a] or abbreviated as 2S,[b] especially in Canada) is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.[2][3][4][5]

Isn’t this pretty normal? World leaders give ceremonial gifts all the time, and its usually to the office rather than the individual

In Canada’s case

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-recep-tayyip-erdogan-nato-summit-gun-9.7264610

According to Global Affairs Canada, “all official gifts are handled in accordance with applicable Canadian laws, security requirements and government policies.”

Carney said the RCMP deactivated the revolver, meaning it is no longer able to fire live ammunition.

“The next thing that went through my mind is this is something for the war museum or a CAF museum or something like that,” Carney said. “It’s interesting and it relates to NATO and the bigger picture,” Carney said.

“We’re going to find the best home for it.”

Yea I think even if you’re unfamiliar with this particular scam, the pushiness for this particular method of payment is a big red flag.

It doesn’t sound like OP is mad at the creator, but annoyed at the increased number of projects that are abandoned

It’s hard to judge the longevity of a project, and LLMs can make a project look more stable and professional than it is. It’s fair to feel annoyed if you mess up that call and move your workflow to something that gets abandoned.

I agree, but I meant that both interventions need to happen at the same time since having regular contact with support and being able to rely on them (instead of drugs) while getting clean will make it more likely that they succeed.

I feel like we might be pushing for the same point, and are talking about different sides of it

I think not addressing the mental health and economic substances until they are “clean”, will make it a lot harder for them to get clean

I don’t understand why we need to pick one or the other when thorough and holistic interventions would work a lot better

I agree with your overall point, this is more of a nitpick on the wording

I would be ok with that too

I would totally use this one if it was available

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25259-emoji-squinting-face.pdf

I did find confirmation for the first account, but supposedly they are going to make a new account for the automated stuff. That should make it easier for people to ban or block it

https://lemmy.ca/comment/23580356

I didn’t find anything in the second account though

Can you edit the post to say that you suspect that this is what they are doing instead of stating it as a fact?

I am also suspicious, but looking through the accounts the activity could still be a human using LemmySchedule to schedule the posts ahead of time. There aren’t that many posts each day, and I couldn’t easily map the posts to any existing subreddit or other source. Normally these bot accounts have a lot more posts, and that’s why they get blocked or banned.

It could just be a user that is using potentially harmful strategies to get communities related to their interests off the ground

I agree! If you DM the mods or make a meta post, I feel like they’d happily add a section. Sometimes they aren’t aware of the other communities

On top of that, doctors will be under increased strain from having to write out the sick notes

I like what our province has done (BC, Canada)

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025LBR0041-001106

Under the new employment standards regulations, employers cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year.

“When you’re sick with the flu, or your child comes down with a cold, the last thing you should have to do is go to your doctor or a medical clinic to get a piece of paper saying you’re sick,” said Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Labour. “Unnecessary medical appointments take time away from patients who need to see their doctors and nurses, don’t help people get better any faster and risk further spread of illness.”

These changes are based on input from health-care providers, who pointed to scientific evidence that shows most minor illnesses for adults, such as a cold and influenza, have symptoms that typically resolve within five days.

Some universities are also switching the format of in person assessments to account for this. For example, adding an extra few quizzes and taking the best X out of Y quizzes so that students can miss a certain number of them with no documentation

From the article, it seems like this isn’t popular in the rest of the country either

Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that enforces a version of Islamic law. The country’s secular central government granted the province the right to implement religious law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist war.

Amnesty International Indonesia said the public caning in Aceh was a form of human rights violation that was cruel, inhumane and degrading to human dignity, carried out despite the fact Indonesia had ratified a convention mandating the abolition of inhumane punishments.

I may be wrong, but I think holding a slightly cross legged position does still require some muscle contraction, and it may cause some compression over having your legs relaxed and spread apart. Also, if you’re lying on your back, then there might be a slight pressure difference from having one leg higher than the rest of your body.

The way you’re describing it, all of these factors will only change the pressure very slightly.

It could also be that you were more relaxed during the second reading, and so that time was the most important contributor. For example, white coat hypertension

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension

From the admin side, we see the following

• lots of accounts trying to register with the same LLM generated text, or nonsensical spam in the registration application. Those get blocked
• some accounts that immediately make it obvious that they are a spam bot by posting unrelated advertise-y content as their first post. Those get banned quickly, and usually the home instance prunes the account within a day

The recent “DM me” spammers and the accounts that post on !selfhosted@lemmy.world are a good example of the second category.

It’s pretty rare for a bot to be active for much longer than that. Usually some eagle eyed user will spot it and report it up the chain.

Welcome!

We have some guides / infographics for new users, which you might find helpful. These two pages in particular:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview

An instance is the site where you make an account. If we extend the analogy to email, then gmail.com is one instance while hotmail.com is another instance. If you make an account on Gmail, you can’t use that login on Hotmail but you can still see content from people on Hotmail.

Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are all software. It’s hard to extend this analogy out, but imagine if Google released the code for Gmail freely so that anyone could easily set up an email website that had the same appearance and functionality as Gmail. That is what is happening here.

So in the same way, lemmy.ca, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and many other Fediverse instances are running the “Lemmy” software and that’s why they look and feel very similar. Where they differ comes down to the people running a particular instance, since they will have different rules for what you can do. You can find that information in the sidebar.

Now all of the Fediverse platforms use a common and agreed upon language to talk to each other. Because Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin software all use this language and follow a similar format, you can easily share content between all of them. That is what the second guide page talks about. They all have communities, posts, and comments, and work in a similar way.

Usually people make one account on a forum/threaded instance (Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin), and one account on a microblogging instance (Mastodon). This is because the format of microblogging (ex. Twitter) is pretty different from that of forums (ex. Reddit), although it is technically possible to cross post in between them.