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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 :)

  • 'Nice little collection of privacy tools'

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  • Are there any providers that refuse to comply with law enforcement? The best seems to be the ones that only collect the bare minimum amount of data in the first place

  • Talk about choosing "a community", not "a server"

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  • Is there a downside to using the term "provider" when talking about choosing an instance? Ultimately, that is where the difference would be. The entity in charge of the instance needs to be trustworthy and have a moderation style/philosophy that the user agrees with.

  • Talk about choosing "a community", not "a server"

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  • I like "home", I might try using that in the future :)

  • Talk about choosing "a community", not "a server"

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  • An immediate problem is that "community" is a term in the threadiverse, where !fediverse@lemmy.ml is a community. It also might make it sound like an exclusive space with a specific topic, whereas in reality when you join a server you can still interact with the wider network.

    IMO this is a concept that can't be expressed in one word when someone is unfamiliar with the concept. We put together this guide a while back to try and explain it: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

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    Organized List of Canadian Communities

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  • Ah, I can see how the 'name' field can be misinterpreted. That was supposed to be the short name of the community, and it will appear in the URL. Unfortunately, that field can't be changed after the community as been created. Even if we mess with the database on lemmy.ca, it might show up incorrectly elsewhere.

    Since the community is just starting out, the easiest would be to make a new one with the name that you want.

    There are also a few other communities that you might enjoy:

    It's totally up to you if you want to post in those or if you want to build your own community. If you want to build your own, you can also cross post to / from these communities to help it grow.

  • A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities?

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  • Imo it might be easier to collaboratively build keyword lists. It's tedious to tag posts manually, and it becomes impossible to do it effectively after the user base grows past a certain point. You can auto-remove any post that isn't tagged, but a lot of people dislike that kind of filtering and only a few communities would implement something like that

  • What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB?

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  • [ Removed by Reddit ] - Reddit's bot troubles are also coming from inside the house -- and is going to be its downfall

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  • Yup, and meanwhile a lot of the spam we manually remove after users report it, should be obvious to detect with automated tools. For example, when a "user" is posting the same link in every comment, or posting the same length comment in many unrelated subs 24/7 every few minutes, etc.

    it's annoying

  • [ Removed by Reddit ] - Reddit's bot troubles are also coming from inside the house -- and is going to be its downfall

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  • Some perspective from the mod side

    The 'Removed by Anti-Evil' isn't a new thing. It used to be the admin side spam/site wide rule breaking content remover.

    • It acted like Lemmy's purge function. When something is removed on Reddit, it's still visible to mods. Sometimes after something extra awful had been removed, anti-evil would come along and clean it up.
    • It would be an indication that something is against site wide rules. If the mods don't take care of reported content that's clearly against sitewide rules, and anti-evil has to step in, then it's a sign that the subreddit might need to be doing more

    Recently though it's been coming along and removing comments before any of the mods can see what the comment was. That makes it hard to take any further action since the mods can't know what the problem was. So far when that's happened, the thread had nothing controversial and the user's history was normal and tame, so I have to assume that the new version of anti-evil has a few screws loose. It's not even that they've raised the threshold for what's appropriate, since awful content still gets through about equally as often.

    The only reason why Reddit's moderation tooling is considered better than the threadiverse is the standard regex based automod rules. The other reddit tools continue to be hot garbage

  • Someone in my area is trying to sell a Windows 7 DVD

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  • Someone in my area is trying to sell a Windows 7 DVD

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  • Oh wow

    Sorry, I missed the "sold" text on those. Would you happen to know why people collect them?

  • Someone in my area is trying to sell a Windows 7 DVD

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  • It is possible to message people on Karrot, but I don't want to risk a ban by sending links

  • Someone in my area is trying to sell a Windows 7 DVD

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  • Maybe that's what people try selling it for, not necessarily what people purchase it for?

  • What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB?

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  • It's a project that's compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn't work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information. For the most part, those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also processing the data to strip out potentially private information

  • The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 9 will start on October 5th

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  • I can't answer the first one properly since I haven't seen the British one, but it seems similar from the clips I've seen?

    Do I need to rewatch from season 1 to get things/jokes?

    Nope, they explain any weird rules/procedures when they need to

    Anything to keep in mind while I watch?

    Nothing comes to mind, it's a low stress and wholesome show that I like to watch with family :)

  • Like Windows explorer but better

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  • If you add calcium to meat will it toughen like it does during rigor mortis?

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  • If you add calcium to meat will it toughen like it does during rigor mortis?

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  • I'm not sure what adding calcium to meat will do to it, but I'll comment on the rigor mortis side specifically.

    Was looking at how rigor mortis is caused and found out it's from the body leaking calcium into the muscles.

    It's true that calcium is involved, but it's not because it leaks into the muscles. I found this open textbook that covers the details:

    https://open.oregonstate.education/anatomy2e/chapter/muscle-fiber-excitation/

    I think what you're referring to is this bit:

    • Cells use up something called ATP to run a lot of the machinery
    • When muscle cells get specific signals, they use ATP to move sodium and calcium ions around in order to do the contraction/relaxation
      • In particular, calcium is released from the SR (a container that sits inside the cell) into the cytoplasm (the area outside the cell) to trigger contraction.
      • Later, to relax again, calcium is actively pumped back into the SR using ATP
    • When the cells run out of ATP (because the person is no longer breathing after death, and so the body can't make more ATP), the muscle cells get stuck in the contracted state

    It's a bit more complicated at the tissue level, but that's more important for the macroscopic changes we see during rigor mortis. Individual cells contracting isn't enough for us to contract our muscles at that scale. We also need the fibers to pull past each other.

    In particular, the "myosin heads" grab onto "actin filaments," and pull themselves along, and they use ATP to detach each time.

    Which brings us to this bit from the link:

    Note that each thick filament of roughly 300 myosin molecules has multiple myosin heads. These myosin heads cycle asynchronously to maintain constant tension in the activated myofiber. During a muscle contraction, many cross-bridges form and break continuously. Multiply this by all of the sarcomeres in one myofibril, all the myofibrils in one muscle fiber, and all of the muscle fibers in one skeletal muscle, and you can understand why so much energy (ATP) is needed to keep skeletal muscles working. In fact, it is the loss of ATP that results in the rigor mortis observed soon after someone dies. With no further ATP production possible, there is no ATP available for myosin heads to detach from the actin-binding sites, so the cross-bridges stay in place, causing the rigidity in the skeletal muscles.

    I'm not sure if it's possible to trigger a contraction manually using calcium alone, and you likely won't be able to do it with regular meat because the proteins break down within a few days after death (which is why rigor mortis goes away after a while).

    You could look into how they trigger contractions in muscle fibers in the lab

  • Can't do that today.

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  • Maybe it was edited on mobile. Some mobile image editors are limited in what they can do

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    We have launched a PieFed instance!

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    We have launched a PieFed instance!

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free setup) - DIY Perks

  • I Made This (MOVED TO LEMMY.ZIP) @lemm.ee
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    meta

    Time to make a new home for this community, since lemm.ee is shutting down

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    feature request

    Support for Piefed instances

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica

    arstechnica.com /security/2025/06/headline-to-come/
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Retiring From Everything | Poorly Drawn Lines

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    bug

    Wide images in the post body cause the text to shift off screen

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    An adorable seal pup named Zeus has been rescued in White Rock | News

  • VanAqua MMR @lemmy.ca
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    An adorable seal pup named Zeus has been rescued in White Rock | News

    dailyhive.com /vancouver/vancouver-aquarium-rescued-seal-pup
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Loading Artist » Inconsolable

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site

    arstechnica.com /information-technology/2025/05/where-hyperscale-hardware-goes-to-retire-ars-visits-a-very-big-itad-site/
  • Data is Beautiful @mander.xyz
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    A map of Vancouver's canopy cover, how it relates to equity around heat waves, and potential issues around targets for development & green spaces

  • Vancouver @lemmy.ca
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    A map of Vancouver's canopy cover, how it relates to equity around heat waves, and potential issues around targets for development & green spaces

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Fans flock to Vancouver park to see new owl family

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    2025-04-21

    This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii

    blog.infected.systems /posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Wiggly Pup!

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Do You Need a Baby Sea Otter Today?

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    B.C. sending almost 100 firefighters to Ontario, after 42 deployed to Manitoba

    www.ctvnews.ca /vancouver/article/bc-sending-almost-100-firefighters-to-ontario-after-42-deployed-to-manitoba/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Trakt to increase prices to $60 for all users, including those on legacy, promotional, and grandfathered pricing

    forums.trakt.tv /t/upcoming-vip-renewal-pricing-changes-effective-may-20-2025/56649