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  • Exercise is as effective as medication in treating depression, study finds

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  • I hate these articles because they imply that anti-depressants aren't useful ("just excercise more!"). In my personal experience, having had about 20 years of depression and suicidal ideation since I was a child, nothing worked until I finally was on venlafaxine. That drug seriously saved and transformed my life, and I hate that there are people that will read this article for whom it might be the only treatment that will work for them, but they'll try excercise, not get better, and blame themselves because they always could have exercised more.

    Depression is a symptom of likely different hidden diseases, and some treatments will only work for some of them. That's why it's not uncommon for patients to need to try multiple medications before finding one that treats their underlying disease (for example, the first drug I tried, wellbutrin, actually exaccerbated my depression).

    Likely excercise can be a successful treatment for some people, but it won't work for everyone, and a headline that says it's as effective as medication fails to communicate that that's averaged across a population. Just like how a typical anti-depressant is only somewhat effective (amazing for some, nothing for others), I imagine exercise is the same.

  • What's yours?

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  • The guys who annoyingly correct dates after the new year still have work, apparently!

  • Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

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  • Other people have good points, but even if you don't care at all about open source or MS, Github's reliability lately has been really bad. I think they've had 3 outages this month already? It's been disruptive at my workplace and we have concerns about how we'd deploy a fix if we had an outage at the same time (since our deploys are automated using GH Actions).

  • 15 February 1989

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  • The child should learn that blackmailing an adult cannot succeed. I think that would help prevent future flushes on its own.

  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • Question is whether the Republican govenors still end up going "unofficially" or whether they all refuse to actually meet Trump.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • Why is it indefensible? It's literally an island which limits attacks to air and sea.

  • Most of the world doesn’t require a prescription for birth control. Why do Canadians still need one?

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  • Worth noting that in BC the pharmacist can also write the prescription, so a doctor's appointment isn't strictly required.

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • They don't need to; most developers rely on Github.

  • Help managing access to other people's VPN services (Tailscale, Wireguard, Twingate) to access services from friends

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  • I never understood why people use Tailscale

    I use it for the NAT busting and direct connections. This means that my devices can talk directly to each other, even when there's NAT and dynamic IPs sitting between the devices with no port forwarding. This is not possible with Wireguard alone; usually you end up with a hub and spoke network model.

    As for them man-in-the-middling, the client is open source (for Android and Linux at least) and traffic is end-to-end encrypted. If you don't want to trust them with distributing the keys (completely valid concern) then it's possible to configure things such that you must sign the keys of clients yourself for your devices to trust them (see Tailnet Lock).

    In my case, because I like self-hosting, I self-host an open-source coordination server called Headscale. So in at least my circumstance I really am only using my infrastructure and open-source code.

  • My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math

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  • I think you missed the point of his post. His issue is that the numeric operations the phone executes to run the LLM is producing garbage. Arguably this could break all kinds of neural networks, such as voice transcription. He's not complaining that the LLMs are themselves unable to properly perform math.

  • My goat Lemmy is helping the neighborhood by getringbrid of invasive species.

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  • Do they sleep inside the house? Like, are they housepets jumping up on your table and bed?

  • OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse

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  • Sadly, at least in the North American market, Google's Pixel phones are basically the last good phones you can reliably install your own ROM on.

  • Safety

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  • I know tons of couples that use apps that let them look up each other's location.

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • I use and love Arch, but it's definitely not for everyone.

  • US not at war with Venezuela, Rubio says, as Maduro held in New York jail - live updates

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  • Trump and Rubio have said they'll coerce the remaining government to open up the oil fields to US companies.

    Trump also said that the vice president can remain in charge as long as she does what the US wants. Understand the implication here - the Venezuela government are bad people who stole an election and commit human rights abuses, but that's all okay to the US. They can keep doing that - they just have to open up their oil fields. If the US had said "we're making Venezuela a democracy again", that would at least provide some moral cover. They're not though. It's just oil. The US doesn't even pretend to value rights and freedoms anymore.

    When I was a teenager during the 2000s, I bought the BS that the US's motivations around the world were actually benevolent. The Iraq war might have been started on faulty information but at least they were spreading democracy. I thought the people saying the motivation was oil were overly cynical. Guess I was wrong.

  • How changing your diet could help save the world

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  • These corporations are producing emissions as a byproduct of them producing products and services for consumer lifestyles; reducing these emissions will require them to compromise on price or quality, necessarily affecting consumers.

    Consider - suppose that to reduce emissions, the government shut those corporations down and prevented others from increasing their emissions. You think your lifestyle would be unaffected? You might be unable to buy a car (or unable to fuel it). You'd be unable to fly overseas. Beef would probably be more expensive, causing people to eat less of it. Regardless, your lifestyle would be impacted. Like it or not, but if you're buying products and services from these corporations (directly or not) then you're part of the problem too.

  • People of Lemmy: would you date a single parent?

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  • Yes. I'm gay and kind of open to having children, so a partner having children (but me not being a primary parent) could be a nice balance.

  • What’s the Way Forward for Canada Post?

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  • I understand the argument that government services shouldn't have to run a profit, but government funding should still be for meaningful services that people actually use. I only get maybe 5-6 relevant pieces of mail per year, and then a ton of junk. I don't need service 5 days a week straight to my doorstep.

    Our civilization has changed and mail delivery has lost much of its importance - how much we fund it should reflect that change in importance. A somewhat contrived example, but we don't expect the government to continue paying for lamplighters to go out each evening and light streetlamps, because the need for flame based streetlamps (and their lighters) has decreased. Similarly, the demand for mail service has decreased (because of email) and we can get by with less postal carriers. Someone saying "the lamp-lighting crown corporation shouldn't have to run a profit" completely ignores that maybe we don't need as many lamplighters.

  • Just a dash

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  • This is just Numeria in Pathfinder. From the Pathfinder Wiki:

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    No homebrew required.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent

    www.theregister.com /2025/12/10/gogs_0day_under_active_exploitation/