A few other notes

• MSN links are annoying because they act as a wrapper for the content that another actual news site put out. Finding the original link is better for everyone, and it helps on the Lemmy side since then the UI can indicate cross posts with that correct link

• I don’t find as much value in news stories with “Trump says” in the headline. It helps in order to anticipate what kind of issues he might cause next, but otherwise I’d much rather read what actually happened instead of losing brain cells reading what trump said about it

A relevant community for anyone visiting this thread:

!outdoor@slrpnk.net

The trailers had some fun looking episodes, and some questionable looking ones. Looking forward to it

This is almost too interesting

Cool find, thanks for sharing!

Looks good, I’ve added it to this post and the two pinned ones

It could mean faster development if they can spend that time on other things

I found that after a good part of a year, I wasn’t using the widgets menu at all and it would take me more time to find the right tag than if I had folders that benefit from muscle memory

I do get the appeal though, it’s very polished

Lawnchair is what I’m currently using, and it’s improving. They’ve had a large development push recently. Another one I’ve looked at was SmartLauncher.

I tried Kvaesitso for a while but ultimately it wasn’t for me

For people asking about alternative communities, we put together a list a while back when closing !askmen@lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/post/48642221

“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):

• !asklemmy@lemmy.world
• !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
• !ask@piefed.social
• !askbeehaw@beehaw.org

For questions that are more specific to your situation:

• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Group specific communities:

• !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
• !dullsters@dullsters.net
• !dadforaminute@lemmy.world
• !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone

Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):

• !casualconversation@piefed.social

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

Does anyone have recommendations for places to get Canadian lentils? Stores or brands to look for

I agree, and it seems like a bad feedback loop of exaggerated fears and poor reactions like these

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal

United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine.

I see, I’ll edit my other comment. So what even changes then, were they even making exclusive deals in the past? The discussion I remember was about how being the default made it difficult for others to compete since most people don’t change the defaults.

I think they’re referring to Firefox’s funding, a lot of which was through search deals

An article from 5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox

edit: seems like that hasn’t changed by this ruling either

United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-overdose-misinformation

Last December, Officer Courtney Bannick was on the job for the Tavares, Fla., police department when she came into contact with a powder she believed was street fentanyl.

The footage from another officer’s body camera shows Bannick appearing to lose consciousness before being lowered to the ground by other cops.

“I was light-headed a little bit,” Bannick later told WKMG, a local television station. “I was choking, I couldn’t breathe.”

Other officers can be heard on the tape describing Bannick’s medical condition as an overdose. They administered Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid poisoning.

“She’s breathing,” a cop says. “Stay with me!”

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It might, but I think it might be a federation bug between our instances. I haven’t seen one like this before, but I’ll keep an eye out to see if it happens again / there’s a pattern.

You could also try setting yourself as a bot, saving, and then reversing it again. That might prompt your instance to send out the information again.

Oh sorry about that, it’s still showing up as a bot for me but it’s fine on your instance. I think the information just hasn’t federated over to lemmy.ca yet

Your account is marked as a bot by the way, you can fix that in your user settings

Hi Slyke,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you! The team has been extra busy these past few days. We did receive the message and we should have acknowledged it sooner.

Someone should hopefully review is soon and get back to you!

Also brick walls don’t really go through iterative changes, which is an important issue with tech debt.

If the wall works, then it works

A software project will work now, but may not hold up when you need to change something