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otter, to science_memes in LPT Do it.

I’ve had the built in version control do unexpected things, so I play it safe and create named backup files. I usually end up using that one file, but I’ve been saved on occasion

otter, to til in TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main

If you want the research article: www.publish.csiro.au/pc/PC18015

otter, to random in Potential benefits of consolidating communities? (Harry Potter example)

Oh I completely misread the earlier comment

mostly I think because the Lemmy demographic may have moved on from that universe.

I read it as “from that instance” being literature.cafe, rather than “universe” being the Harry Potter universe

My bad, and yes agreed

otter, to random in Potential benefits of consolidating communities? (Harry Potter example)

Regarding literature.cafe as an instance

literature.cafe/post/7623713

otter, to random in Would it be okay to also use this community to promote developing communities and instances?

!communitypromo should be open to instances as well! (I can clarify in the rules if necessary)

I wanted to leave the rules open so that the following is allowed as well:

  • looking for communities
  • promoting old communities
  • non Lemmy spaces (rest of fediverse for example)
otter, to programming in Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash

I think it’s to make it easier to write bash scripts, for those who are new or when the script is doing a more critical task

Modern Syntax

You will find many of the language features familiar, allowing you to get up and running much faster than if you were learning Bash from scratch.

Runtime Safety

It’s one of the key components missing from regular shell scripts. It can help you catch many bugs at compile time.

Type Safety

Amber ensures that you handle everything that could fail. Each Bash command and function that could fail must be handled in some way.

otter, to lemmy411 in Is there an active community for sharing a variety of different websites?

Odd I can access it and I do see recent posts in the community. Maybe they are dealing with intermittent server issues

otter, to lemmy411 in Is there an active community for sharing a variety of different websites?
otter, to asklemmy in Tips to reduce Enshittification of Internet

I’d start with ublock origin for browser extensions, and then add more things based on what you’re looking to do :)

You’ve already mentioned a few, but another might be to explore alternatives to the bad services and start a process to migrate over. That can look like anything from reducing your dependence on a service to moving over entirely.

ex. unfollow people and things you don’t care about

otter, to crtart in Water Under The Bridge

These are so cool

otter, to publichealth in A new pill cures preschoolers of a parasitic worm. Delivering it could be a challenge

Warning: looking up photos of the disease can be horrifying

Here’s the relevant bit of the article:

When Dr. Isaac Chikwanha was a kid in Zimbabwe, he got schistosomiasis.

At the time, he didn’t think about the cause of this parasitic disease: a worm that penetrates your skin and takes up residence in your blood vessels. And he didn’t worry about short-term health consequences – such as blood in your urine – and he didn’t know about the long-term consequences when the disease goes untreated, including organ damage and reduced learning ability.

Instead, as a 7-year-old, he thought of it as a point of pride.

But there’s one thing he’s certain of now that he’s a doctor: There’s a major gap in conquering the disease, because the medication is designed only for school-age children and adults. Nobody knows exactly how many preschoolers have schistosomiasis but experts estimate that 50 million preschoolers are at risk but lack a good treatment option.

Of course, there’s a hack: Crushing the current pill into a smaller dose. However, Chikwanha says, even breaking a pill in half or third or quarters doesn’t guarantee an appropriate dose for a preschooler.

“It gets complicated,” he says. And crushing raises another problem – when the pill is mixed with water rather than swallowed, it has a strong bitter taste, although adding syrup can help. So the reality is that many little kids are left untreated.

Chikwanha, a senior director at the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Japan, says these youngsters represent a “neglected population” with a neglected tropical disease.

Now that’s about to change.

After more than a decade of work, a version of praziquantel designed specifically for preschoolers is on the cusp of becoming a reality. The Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium, a team of public and private partners, has developed a pill that dissolves in the mouth without a bitter taste and is the right dosage for the preschool population. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization gave its stamp of approval to this new pill, adding the medication to its list of prequalified medicines which have been assessed for quality, safety and efficacy.

otter, to world in EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN

More links

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ggpe3qj6wo

apnews.com/…/icc-khan-netanyahu-070941d21ccd1f2b9…

Karim Khan said that he believes Netanyahu, his defense minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders — Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.

The prosecutor must request the warrants from a pre-trial panel of three judges, who take on average two months to consider the evidence and determine if the proceedings can move forward.

Israel is not a member of the court, and even if the arrest warrants are issued, Netanyahu and Gallant do not face any immediate risk of prosecution. But Khan’s announcement deepens Israel’s isolation as it presses ahead with its war, and the threat of arrest could make it difficult for the Israeli leaders to travel abroad.

Both Sinwar and Deif are believed to be hiding in Gaza as Israel tries to hunt them down. But Haniyeh, the supreme leader of the Islamic militant group, is based in Qatar and frequently travels across the region.

otter, to asklemmy in I'm finally moving over to Lemmy! What are your favorite active communities on the platform?

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

otter, to nostupidquestions in "Hacked" Instagram

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

otter, to opensource in Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?

Usually because resources are limited, both financial and time, so people make do with what they can.

As projects grow, and as the FOSS alternatives improve, projects can switch over.

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