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@ otter @lemmy.ca

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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 :)

  • 'Flettner Rotor' - xkcd

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  • I had to look this one up, I didn't realize how old the technology was

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

    A Flettner rotor is a smooth cylinder with disc end plates which is spun along its long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it, the Magnus effect causes an aerodynamic force to be generated in the direction perpendicular to both the long axis and the direction of airflow.[1] The rotor sail is named after the German aviation engineer and inventor Anton Flettner, who started developing the rotor sail in the 1920s.

    The Buckau, the Flettner Rotor Ship, photographed in 1924

  • A guide to creating a new community to Lemmy?

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  • Sorry I missed this a while back, but yes that sounds good :)

    One thing we're waiting on is to have a new set of guidelines for ourselves. We were thinking of having some recommended guidelines that community mods can pick from. We can probably make it interactive and have it copy to clipboard in some order of priority

  • Peak UI Design

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  • Why is the first part of October in the second box?

    Now I want to see an infographic about the common parts of each of the months

  • Best self-hosted FOSS text-to-speech?

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  • You could look into tools that use Whisper, that seems to be the popular choice for text/speech tools right now

  • Removed

    What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market?

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  • If the company is gone now then, I guess it would harm whoever bought the rights to the apps or the name? In which case they can contact that entity to sort it out

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  • I don't know how these are made, but this one is very well done

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  • Crocodiles may have also adapted over time to deal with the changes in our atmosphere, while the dino DNA would not have gone through those changes. They could handwave that problem by saying they combined it with some other DNA or modified it themselves (better hemoglobin?)

  • Naming conventions in programming – a review of scientific literature [and tips on how to do it well]

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  • Maybe the first one, the one on keywords?

  • Naming conventions in programming – a review of scientific literature [and tips on how to do it well]

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  • Cool! You could post them here one at a time if you haven't already

  • Naming conventions in programming – a review of scientific literature [and tips on how to do it well]

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  • It makes it more accessible, but part of it might also be SEO bait

    I skipped to the second section

  • A guide to creating a new community to Lemmy?

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  • We've got something in the works here:

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

    We're still adding and brainstorming content, and then we'll organize it nicely (similar to the For Users section).

    What kind of information would you like to have?

  • Postcard is now open source

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  • Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline

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  • Cool!

    I love the UI for this one, it's unique compared to the others

  • Tap Dance – The Jenkins

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  • That was really cool, worth a post of its own, thanks for sharing!

  • Tap Dance – The Jenkins

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  • Any nurses lurking around here on Lemmy? Is there a medical community for general discussion, debriefing, comradery, and/or stories/memes?

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  • No worries, I like the meme 😄

  • Any nurses lurking around here on Lemmy? Is there a medical community for general discussion, debriefing, comradery, and/or stories/memes?

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  • Yes! That's what !medicine@mander.xyz is intended for :) I've run into a handful of medical professionals here, but we don't have regular discussion posts yet and so it's mostly news articles.

    That community also has an informal relationship with the one on reddit, where we were in contact with the mods there.

    Please feel free to share any thoughts or stories in that community :)

  • What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?

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  • What kind of uses did you have for it?

  • A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud

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  • I think they're looking for local "AI" anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there's no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.

    There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn't be that bad.

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    [SOLVED] Does Lemmy support Markdown rendering of striked-out/crossed-out formatting while in superscript for post titles?

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  • It depends on the client

    Some apps / frontends support it and others don't