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It should update on your device soon, but if you want to join the beta you can do so through the buttons on the link above.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

The visitor, in this case, was a white-eared opossum — a marsupial native to the region. Evidently, he’d wandered into the daycare center from the surrounding forest and found a perfectly cozy spot to rest his head.

Neat

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Organic Maps was on iOS, my guess is that it'll take time to get a new app approved on the iOS store

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Thank you so much for this medal, I will cherish it 😁

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I’d make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.

This is actually somewhat built into PieFed. Users can import from a lemmy account, and admins can do a bulk community import of the local communities on a particular instance (filtering by number of posts and users in the past week in those communities). However, it's buggy. Eventually it would be nice to have tools to synchronize administration between the instances so that we don't need to repeat actions on both instances.

Furthermore, in the ideal world, “Local” from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.

Agreed :) PieFed does have a 'popular' feed, so another solution would be to have a default feed that we have more control over (ex. picking specific instances or communities). As long as the exact breakdown is communicated to the user, perhaps as a 'learn more' button in the existing "Create an account to tailor this feed to your interests.", I don't think people will mind the admins customizing it to fit the instance. We've discussed in the past whether it is better to have the default logged out view be 'local' or 'popular', and this might help with that problem too.

Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other

This actually exists for the Lemmy -> PieFed direction! @blaze posted some information about it here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/16976004

It could be better, since right now while the PieFed instance does get a copy of all the posts, the Lemmy instance doesn't know about it. Hopefully the various platforms can coordinate some common solution.

Also happy cake day! 🥳

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Here is the feature list of grapheneOS. A big one for me is sandboxing apps and more control over permissions.

https://grapheneos.org/features

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The plan is to hold our one this winter. We missed last winter because we all got busy with other things. Now that we have a set of agreed upon questions ready and a plan for importing/exporting between instances, it should be easy to run ours on schedule :)

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I have also heard good things about https://beehaw.org/ in that regard (both are excellent instances, I'm not suggesting one over the other)

I hope you and the community here is able to find a place that meets your needs! I enjoy reading and learning from the posts in this community

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Kaitlin Stockton's lawsuit claims her job was threatened after she took action to warn patients of ER delays

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45803716 | [email protected]

I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.

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I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.

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Journalists from a few major Metro Vancouver news publications that closed earlier this year are now banding together in a fight to save local news.

[...] The three publications that closed were Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record and Tri-City News.

Now, journalists who formerly worked at these publications are hoping to launch a new publication. Daily Hive spoke with Cornelia Naylor, who has over a decade of experience and was part of the Burnaby Now and New Westminster Record teams.

They’ve launched a fundraiser with a goal of $100,000 and hope to launch a new publication later this year. We asked Naylor why Glacier Media shut down the local news publications.

“They cited financial problems or financial challenges, and there was not much more explanation than that.”

Naylor says the end goal is a community-owned, worker-run news cooperative, and the hope is that this publication will fill all the gaps left behind by the shuttered Glacier publications.

“I think this model is already working in Quebec. It would be the first in Western Canada.”

We often hear politicians talk about local news and its importance, and asked Naylor if the government can play a role in this journey to build a new publication. Naylor first expanded on the situation in Quebec, where six daily newspapers were set to be shut down.

“The government, I think, jumped in with interest-free loans, and there was fundraising.”

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I've copied some of the story below

Dr. Donald Craig greeted by surprise guest during award presentation in Saint John

Dr. Donald Craig was an intern at the old General Hospital in Saint John on a snowy night in January 1968 when a doctor asked him for help.

The doctor had to deliver a baby at nearby St. Joseph's Hospital, but a woman at the General was also about to give birth. That child was three months premature and expected to be stillborn.

"Can you handle this?" the doctor asked.

Craig had delivered babies before, but only under the supervision of a doctor or a resident. So he grabbed a book on human labour and began to review it.

Then a nurse came and told him the baby was breech — something the doctor hadn't mentioned. So he went back to his book to look that one up. A few hours later, a nurse came to take him to the delivery room.

"She screams at me, 'Craig, she's ready, she's pushing and she's crying. Let's go.'"

Craig had to break the baby's clavicle on its way out, but he manged to deliver the baby, still expecting it to be stillborn.

And then the baby started to cry.

"My heart took off faster than the baby's heart, and the mother started crying, 'Is that my baby crying?'"

The baby was alive and Craig's thoughts quickly turned to her survival. She weighed two pounds and was three months premature. Her odds of survival weren't great.

He knew the General had just hired a pediatrician who specialized in newborn child care and premature births — and she happened to be in the hospital overnight in case she was needed during the storm.

Craig said that doctor soon appeared, wearing a bathrobe over her pyjamas. She looked at him and asked, "Did you deliver that by yourself? Give me the baby."

He said the doctor "let the mom kiss her baby and said, 'We're just taking the baby down the hall. We're going to be fine.' Then she disappeared."

To this day, Craig says the doctor's skilled care was critical to the survival of the baby, who was in the hospital for a month before being released. Craig checked on her every day and gave updates to her mother, who wasn't allowed to stay in the hospital with her.

"I delivered that baby, but [the doctor] had the skill, and was trained to handle it from there," Craig said.

More than 55 years later, Craig is retired after a decades-long career in family and emergency medicine. He has served as president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick and the Saint John Medical Society.

He also founded the New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation, which provides scholarships to the province's medical students who agree to set up practice here — a critical part of the efforts to increase the number of doctors in New Brunswick.

In April, the foundation gave Craig the Champions of Care Founder's Award at a gala at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre. The person who presented him with that award was Krista Barczyk, the premature baby he delivered as an intern decades ago during that January snowstorm.

It was a planned reunion the foundation kept secret from Craig until the moment Barczyk was called to the stage.

"I didn't hear half of her speech because I was so shocked," Craig said. "Then I got a copy of her speech and I printed it off to put up on my wall."

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations

[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

Right at the end of the video, there is a twist that may raise the graying eyebrows of Commodore fans around the globe. Perifractic reveals that he received a message direct from Commodore Corporation B.V. that states “yes we can grant you an exclusive license, but your team seems to know Commodore better than we do, we might like to sell you the whole company.”

What 😄

Sadly, we are left with this cliffhanger. Viewers are told to stay tuned for Part 2 of this video, “live and Let Buy.” But we don’t have a date for the video publication. Stay tuned, indeed.

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Parking apps is an interesting one:

  • it is very convenient to not have to run back and put more money in the meter if your appointment / event goes over time
  • there are some significant privacy issues
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