Welcome!

Feel free to post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any questions, else there are lots of guides around for you to use. There are a few pinned to the sidebar of your instance, and there’s also this post from over on lemmy.ca: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32846425

With that in mind, I LOVE how lean and fast some FOSS apps/projects are. One of my motivations to go searching for FOSS alternatives is when something seems slow for no reason.

It’s not always the case, but it’s often the case

Aussie.zone might be the most extreme case, since its physical location is the farthest away from the largest Lemmy instance

The automated migration notification is interesting, I assume it’s everyone that was subscribed to the old one. How does it work?

People will scroll up and see the can anyway 😄

On my end, both were pretty bad

Content moderation seemed to be non-existent, and the reports might as well have gone into the trash

Also no matter how much I tried to control the feed, I’d still get content that was gross (trypophobia), sexual, or chumbox like.

The legitimate ones could charge for large files / batch processing

As for which ones are legitimate and which ones are malware, ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

In this case the advantage is that you don’t need to download anything, and I’ll admit that I used websites like this years ago

For example, PNG to ICO, or PDF to Word, when people don’t have a tool installed and they look up how to do it, these websites pop up and it feels very convenient.

Maybe there is a utility that can be self hosted for this. Something like StirlingPDF but for all kinds of files

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

So while lemmy.ca is a Canadian instance (hosted in Canada, run by Canadians, etc.), it’s federated and so you can still connect to communities everywhere else. I would recommend skimming through these two pages :)

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

Each community is free to decide what content belongs in it, and users are free to subscribe to the ones that match what they’re looking for. If it helps, you can find some more Canada specific communities here:

• pinned post of Canadian communities: https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824
• communities that were made on lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/communities

I don’t know if we have a community specifically for Canadian news, but the country / province / territory / city communities generally fill that niche.

I personally prefer to only use my subscribed feed (instead of all) so that I can curate it the way I like it

The description sounds more like an AI receptionist than an AI nurse. It would be helpful if patients could ask follow-up questions to the automated phone call before an appointment. Some clinics don’t have the manpower for that, and especially not in all the languages that the local population might speak.

I’d be interested in seeing how good the model actually is, and how it determines when to pass it along to a human

The concern is with making sure the AI model is only used where it makes sense. Those who are looking to cut costs will try and use it everywhere, and that needs to be kept in check

The GoodKarmaToolkit in particular is an extra project that is managed by ArchiveBox, but the listed services aren’t made by them. I’m not as familiar with ArchiveBox itself, and it looks like there’s an open issue about AI stuff: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1139

There is another called Data Hoarder that does this job too.

Yup, Hoarder was the one I was planning to use for bookmark management: https://hoarder.app/

[no major spoilers in this comment]

I asked two separate friends in the medical field for what they thought of the show, and both of them started with saying that the character is annoying 😄

I think that’s the goal, since there ARE people like that in the field that are difficult to work with. It also gives her room to grow and be ‘humbled’ through the course of the show.

Maybe Snapchat

I’ve always heard of snapchat being the worst of them all, so maybe it depends on what kind of content you follow?

I with the Pixelfed creator would just focus on Pixelfed, I use that and it’s a total win, just needs some kinks worked out and more popularity.

Now that they have some funding and are building up a small team, it might let them focus on a few things at once. I agree though that it won’t replace Tiktok. At this point, doomscrolling is a psychological addiction that takes effort to move away from.

wow those eyes 👁️👁️

The key is that you need to subscribe to the type of content you want to see. There’s no company here deciding what your feed is going to be.

@BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world, what kind of stuff are you interested in? I’m happy to help you find related communities :)

I love the name Pabu, what does it mean?

338 posts updates every Sunday, I’m looking forward to seeing that one

https://338canada.com/federal.htm

I can also see some people being opposed to them spending the donation money on ads, since they’d be giving money to companies that may be in opposition to what we’re doing here (or ideological reasons around the advertising industry in general).

Maybe if there was a separate pool of donations specifically for advertising, then people who want to support that can donate to it? Those who don’t can still donate to the projects themselves

Thanks!

I think it’s still helpful for people that primarily use the subscribed feed, in case they are subscribed to !linux@lemmy.ml, but not !privacy@lemmy.ml

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Could be worth sharing this around so more people are aware of it. !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !opensource@programming.dev maybe? I can cross post it myself, but I’m not as familiar with the topic to respond to comments/questions