@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

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 :)

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otter,

Welcome!

I don’t have specific recommendations on hand because I’m on mobile, but you can look through this guide from !newtolemmy for other ways to discover communities

lemmy.ca/post/11285664

Following the promo communities works great so you can passively learn about new things when they get promoted

"Hacked" Instagram

My other half discovered that some dodgy person/company had managed to send instagram messages advertising handbags to all of her followers from her account. She changed her password immediately, but what could have happened here? Is it the case that a “hacker” had access to her full instagram account, or would they have...

otter,

Are the messages in her outbox? What some scammers do is they make a new account with the same name and profile picture, to then send messages that look like they’re from a friend.

I remember reading about an Facebook phishing thing going around, but that involved getting the password and then spamming out messages. She could try and remember if she got any weird links that she logged in with. Sometimes the scammer sends the harmful link to the followers, so the handbag site might be the problem link

Rant: vanilla local app search is ridiculously bad

For a search company I can’t believe how terrible the Android app search is. I can’t even search “bank” for my banking apps, and there doesn’t really seem to be any metadata except for the title that goes into the search. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how many companies name their apps something cReAtIvE like...

otter,

I’d love to have tags on apps. So many apps have a simple minimalistic name on the app, which is impossible to remember. I make do by renaming the app with terms I might search by.

ex. “Authenticator Microsoft”, or “Vancollect City Garbage Trash Recycling”

otter,

This is wholesome lol

otter,

Is the one you linked mechanical? I wasn’t sure

otter,

Others are covering the details of the article, I took a look at the source. It only started up last year:

Canadian Affairs was founded by Lauren Heuser in 2023. You can read why Lauren founded a publication for families and professionals in her founding essay.

Canadian Affairs is independent and nonpartisan. It is wholly owned by Lauren and has no outside investors. It is a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.

Links to the person’s past work:

otter,

Say what now

Police crackdown on Gaza protest encampments [at the University of Alberta] campus sparks outcry (montrealgazette.com)

Students and academics at the University of Alberta reacted with outrage on Saturday after Edmonton police dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, describing the operation as violent and contesting assertions that demonstrators were breaking the law....

otter,

My thoughts:

A handful of these changes are things that Lemmy currently allows, or has Github issues for in the queue. Others (mainly moderation ones), are things that would be nice to have here as well. The temporary traffic spike feature could do wonders here with the spam waves

otter,

Especially the new pinned posts, it looks like they might be new Reddit only. I guess we’ll have to wait and try it once a few subs implement it

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