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.”

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/198816

Numerous first responders from police, fire and ambulance initially attended with the support of the Canadian Coast Guard divers to attempt a rescue.

From this RSS feed

It's not a product that you can buy, but a very interesting DIY project

Here is the link from the video description: https://www.etherdyne.net/evalkit

I don't see a thread in this community yet, so I thought I'd make a post. Where should this community be moved to?

Tagging @[email protected]

Piefed is another instance type that is growing in popularity, and a few instances are now turning on the API. As such, apps are also implementing support.

It would be great if Boost would support it too. Hopefully the extra development overhead isn't too bad.

Some recent discussion: https://piefed.social/post/817564

The page for developers:

https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/

The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.

That same link: https://freamon.github.io/piefed-api/

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

The covert tracking—implemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackers—allows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they're off-limits for every other site.

Source: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/retiring-from-everything/

This post for example.

https://lemmy.ca/post/45288272

It is readable for a moment, but then the image slides to the left and the text slides with it, causing the first part of every line to be off screen and unreadable

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45263234

Article: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquarium-rescued-seal-pup

Some photos:

So, you’ve got a receding hairline in 2025. You could visit a dermatologist, sure, or you could try a new crop of websites that will deliver your choice of drugs on demand after a video call with a telehealth physician. There’s Rogaine and products from popular companies like Hims, or if you have an appetite for the experimental, you might find yourself at Anagen.

Anagen works a lot like Hims—some of its physicians have even worked there, according to their LinkedIn profiles and the Hims website—but take a closer look at the drugs on offer and you’ll start to notice the difference. Its Growth Maxi formula, which sells for $49.99 per month, contains Finasteride and Minoxidil; two drugs that are in Hims’ hair regrowth products. But it also contains Liothyronine, a thyroid medication also known as T3 that the Mayo Clinic warns may temporarily cause hair loss if taken orally. Keep reading and you’ll see Latanoprost, a glaucoma drug. Who came up with this stuff anyway?

The group behind the Anagen storefront and products it sells is HairDAO, a “decentralized autonomous organization” founded in 2023 by New York-based cryptocurrency investors Andrew Verbinnen and Andrew Bakst. HairDAO aims to harness the efforts of legions of online biohackers already trying to cure their hair loss with off-label drugs. Verbinnen and Bakst’s major innovation is to inject cash into this scenario: DAO participants are incentivized with crypto tokens they earn by contributing to research, or uploading blood work to an app.

Source: https://loadingartist.com/comic/inconsolable/