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[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 2 days ago

I love fun visualizations

 

Description:

Track NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft live as it travels to the Moon and back. Real-time 2D map with position, speed, distance from Earth and Moon, crew info, mission elapsed time, and trajectory replay for all Artemis missions. Free-return trajectory explained.

[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'm going to try and ban + unban your account in case that helps. You've likely already tried this but is the problem limited to a particular user/post/community or does it happen everywhere. Can you try downvoting this comment?

I'll also tag a Piefed maintainer in this thread to see if there is something else we should be looking in to.

[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 1 month ago

I doubt Motorola would suddenly change their hardware design/direction.

That could be a reason for gaining the SD card and headphone jack. They already have a few phones with those features

[–] otter@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

No problem! I haven't submitted any feedback directly yet. I'll be sure to get it on the GitHub when I do

[–] otter@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I use Boost primarily, and I'm playing around with the other two for Piefed support.

~~The Blorp dev is active on here if you want to request features you are looking for~~

~~!blorp@lemmy.zip~~

I'm sorry, I misunderstood, you are the dev 😅

I'll put together a list of my top priorities and share them at some point. Thank you for actively looking for feedback!

[–] otter@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was about old votes from before the user was banned, specifically for vote manipulation bots

[–] otter@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

See also !lemmyapps@lemmy.world and https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I've been using Boost, Blorp and Voyager, but I also haven't tried the other apps in a long time. I'm used to these and they do almost everything I need so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:

While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?

[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Darn :(

Ottawa has cancelled PrescribeIT, a federal program built with Telus Health to replace the use of fax machines in sending prescriptions between doctors and pharmacists, after spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars on the initiative.

Canada Health Infoway, a government-funded non-profit, launched PrescribeIT in 2017 as part of “axe the fax” initiatives to replace the older technology with digital tools in health care settings. In this case, it provided a secure digital way to transmit prescriptions from doctors’ offices to pharmacies.

As of 2026, PrescribeIT is live in eight provinces and territories and being trialled in a ninth, Quebec. It has also seen thousands of pharmacies sign up, including major chains such as Loblaw Cos. Ltd.-owned Shoppers Drug Mart, Metro Ontario Inc. and Walmart Inc., and many hospitals, including Humber River Hospital and the Ottawa Hospital.

Despite the number of providers on board, use of the service has remained low. Less than 5 per cent of prescriptions are sent electronically in Canada each year, according to reports from Canada Health Infoway and Telus Health.

Canada Health Infoway began informing stakeholders in recent days that it was cancelling PrescribeIT. Two sources with knowledge of the program said it is expected to go offline mid-2026.

The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to share the information.

[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd love to see more Canadian / North American memes 😄

 

In data privacy, we often talk about the dangers of data collection and exposed data. It can get overwhelming to learn more about all the information that is collected on us, especially at the beginning. As a coping mechanism, some people react by downplaying concerns, disregarding dangers, and ignoring precautions altogether. Others react the opposite way: by isolating themselves, and no longer sharing anything with anyone. But neither is a viable solution.

Staying isolated to avoid all data exposure risks other dangers. Dangers that might not seem related to data privacy directly, but are nevertheless worth mentioning here: Suicide and depression are very real dangers that we cannot ignore.

Keeping our data safe shouldn't mean staying alone, and isolation is especially dangerous for LGBTQ+ people.

The better approach is to adopt a segmental perspective on data privacy.

While not ignoring nor minimizing the risks, it's important to develop an awareness of which exposed data represents the biggest danger to us, which we have no control over, and which we can actually protect better.

This is the balanced way out of this Orwellian nightmare.

There are ways to stay together, to support each other, and to stay connected while also protecting our data and becoming an informed advocate for privacy rights.

The article has more details, and includes the following:

How to stay connected while staying safe
Practices and tools that help in various contexts
Pseudonymity
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Browser fingerprinting
File metadata
Mobile applications
Photo sharing
What to improve in each context
Social media: Improving, deleting, replacing
Private messaging: One-on-one and group chats
Online dating: Balancing authenticity and caution
In person: Groups and events
Stay connected
Resources to help

[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Assuming I ran the queries correctly

Past 8 days:

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Past 14 days:

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Since launch:

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[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 5 months ago

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[–] otter@piefed.ca 0 points 5 months ago

test comment

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34293577

A fresh update is here! This release brings initial support for PieFed. The PieFed API is still under development, so some features are limited, but here’s what’s new:

  • Support for PieFed (limited while the API evolves)
  • Notifications for new activity on communities, posts, comments, or users on PieFed
  • View topics and feeds

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!

 

I altered the title to remove the clickbait and copy in context from the start of the article. The original title was:

This viral chocolate is part of a salmonella risk recall as 9 hospitalized

The list of affected products:

In recent days, recalls have been posted for Al Mokhtar Food Centre brand of pistachios, Habibi brand of pistachio kernels in addition to the Dubai brand of chocolate bar containing pistachio and khafeh.

 

Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in the U.S. are now seeing targeted advertisements encouraging them to follow their hearts to B.C., as the Province launches a recruitment marketing campaign in Washington state, Oregon and California.

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