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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 :)

  • Fossify Launcher just got released

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  • There are a handful of open source launchers following different formats. This one seems to be the Pixel/Lawnchair format. Since Lawnchair development has been slow, it's nice to see a new one out there.

    Also, this is from the Fossify suite of apps (forked from the Simple Mobile apps). They're great replacements for a number of stock apps. A launcher should fit in nicely with the rest

  • [Windows] bluetuith-shim-windows: A shim and command-line tool to use Bluetooth Classic features on Windows.

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  • Looks cool :)

  • AT&T tries to defend why it shouldn't let you unlock your phone sooner

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  • https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/contact/phone/q19.htm

    Canada:

    First, locked phones are a thing of the past. Effective December 1, 2017, service providers will have to offer unlocked devices to their customers.

    What are the benefits of having an unlocked device?

    An unlocked device can be used on other networks, which means that you will be able to switch providers and keep the same phone. That means more flexibility for you, the consumer.

  • TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up.

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  • You could take it a step further and set a temporary network name & password for the hotspot, and then change it back afterwards

    that way you can use your hotspot near your TV in the future without worry

  • Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas

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  • It might be helpful to be able to set default per community for something like this. For example, !dailygames@lemmy.zip, it would be a jumbled mess to have it be all in one thread

  • Is it possible to be comfortable with two desktop OSs (e.g. shortcuts, mouse)

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  • I believe the issue is that both settings change at the same time, so either the mouse feels backwards or the trackpad does.

    There were some third party tools to change that

  • Removed

    Release v0.1.29 · komorebi - "Tiling Window Management for Windows" (non-FLOSS, see comments)

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  • Yea that's not great, I've edited that note into the title

  • Indiana Cat

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  • At first I didn't get that the cat and the individual were the same person. I thought it came up through a well and broke the item

  • It sure seems like the Optimus robots at Tesla's event were under human control

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  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?

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  • Thank you!

  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?

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  • What are some of the issues you'd like to see addressed? I don't use mastodon as much so I'm not familiar with what has / hasn't been done.

    ex. I hear they've been working on content discovery, such as with the recommended accounts carousel

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • Part of it is also because you will notice the people you recognize, but scroll past the people that you don't.

    Having to check over usernames from the moderation side, I notice a lot more variety than I'd think about otherwise

  • Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad

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  • There is nothing inherent in knockoff that says it doesn't work. That would be a fake.

    While I can find definitions that call it "an inferior copy" (link), that's not the point. Common usage has made it so that people will assume things about the quality or efficacy of the medication when certain words are used. Even if a word is technically correct, perceptions about the word can make it a bad choice.

    Often when patents expire and other options emerge, they are called "generics" or "store brand" versions. Those terms don't carry the negative associations.

  • Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad

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  • The original comment you replied to said

    Yeah, they aren't "knock-offs" or "imitations." That is some bad reporting.

    They used quotes to point out that those words usually imply an inferior quality, something which doesn't do what it says that it does, something that is produced without permission, etc.

    While the drugs may still be copies, word choice can affect how people perceive the quality / efficacy of them.

  • Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad

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  • Some more discussion on this article over on !medicine@mander.xyz

    See here: https://lemmy.ca/post/30650429

    A few points brought up in the comments

    • The shortage isn't necessarily over, and an obvious downside is drug prices / abuse from the manufacturer
    • This mostly affects larger pharmacies that can do compounding (ex. CVS, Walmart) since smaller independent pharmacies usually don't have the means to do it. However, the specifics will vary depending on where you are.
    • A more reasonable concern is that the compounded drugs don't go through the same quality control. So while they should act the same and be safe, it's possible that some pharmacy company (see above) is cutting corners for profit.

    My thoughts:

    • the US has a drug price problem
    • it's possible to get safe and quality controlled pharmaceuticals without restricting it to one company, especially if that company can't handle the demand

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  • Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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  • Privacy, security, intellectual property

  • Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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  • MIT license:

    Explore a beautiful Windows-first design. Manage all your files with increased productivity. Work across multiple folders with tabs. And so much more.

    It looks nice, and has extra features like tabs, tagging 7zip/archive management, cloud drives, git integration, comparing file hashes, etc.

    The only issue I had was performance, it took a long time to start each time. I'm planning on trying it again sometime later

  • The new agent has successfully infiltrated the British government at the highest levels.

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  • Larry is still around, but this new cat might be in training for the role

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/larry-the-cat-downing-street-death-b2602158.html

    Downing Street officials are preparing a “media plan” to announce the eventual passing of Larry the cat.

    Larry has become a widely loved fixture of Downing Street and is often seen outside the door to Number 10 during major political events and news broadcasts.

    The 17-year-old ‘chief mouser’ is thought to be in his final years, having already outlived the average lifespan for a tabby cat.

    While one source said that, at present, Larry is “doing OK”, another said: “We felt it had to be handled so sensitively.”

    An extra fun fact:

    The cat, who was adopted from Battersea Cats Home, was first brought into Downing Street by David Cameron as a pet for his children and has since outlasted five prime ministers.

  • Mastodon 4.3 released

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  • Helping writers and journalists

    In this version we’re introducing a new way to highlight writers and journalists on the fediverse. By adding a single line to their HTML, publishers can feature the fediverse profile of the page author in the link previews on Mastodon. That way, when lots of different people are sharing the link, or the link is trending in the News tab, you can easily navigate to the author’s fediverse profile and follow them right from within Mastodon to receive future updates. Publications like The Verge and TechCrunch are already using this.

    We’ve also put a fresh coat of paint on our website embeds. You’ve always been able to embed a Mastodon post on your own website, but we’ve made them look a lot better and gave them a more graceful fallback when the source is slow to load or no longer available. Of course, the dialog for embedding a post now looks a lot better as well, offering a simple click to copy button. Keep in mind that you can only embed posts that are public!

    Well that's cool!

  • Git grumpy: Torvalds complains of passive voice in merge commit messages

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  • The message:

    "I try to make my merge commit messages be somewhat "cohesive", and so I often edit the pull request language to match a more standard layout and language. It's not a big deal, and often it's literally just about whitespace so that we don't have fifteen different indentation models and bullet syntaxes. I generally do it as I read through the text anyway, so it's not like it makes extra work for me.

    But what does make extra work is when some maintainers use passive voice, and then I try to actively rewrite the explanation (or, admittedly, sometimes I just decide I don't care quite enough about trying to make the messages sound the same).

    So I would ask maintainers to please use active voice, and preferably just imperative."

    Giving an example of a bad commit message, Torvalds provided this example: "In this pull request, the Xyzzy driver error handling was fixed to avoid a NULL pointer dereference." He believes this should have been written as follows: "This fixes a NULL pointer dereference in ..."