Schools can choose to start later in the day if they find it helpful, without needing everyone else to change their clocks and schedules too
otter
Interestingly
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
We just got rid of it
Looks cool! I'd love to see local buynothing groups have a Fediverse alternative.
Out of curiosity, is there any standard or common format around location data for Fediverse platforms?
I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_expansionism_under_Donald_Trump#Canada
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Wow that is nice, is it released anywhere for others to modify/extend?
Fox, who also oversees Apache Maven, a popular Java build tool, explained that its repository site is at risk of being overwhelmed by constant Git pulls. The team has dug into this and found that 82 percent of the demand comes from less than 1 percent of IPs. Digging deeper, they discovered that many companies are using open source repositories as if they were content delivery networks (CDNs). So, for example, a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next. This is unsustainable.
GitHub added rate limits for unauthenticated users last year
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/
Karrot is nice
Too many people use the LLM generated caption feature, but that's a fault of the users than the platform itself.
At the same time, they became a lot more palatable to the rest of the world and companies that want to avoid bad press / boycotts
Piefed does have a migration tool from what I remember of lemm.ee's shutdown
Supposedly Amnezia is an anti censorship tool, however Facebook has a terrible track record with recommending VPNs. The previous one turned out to be spyware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnezia_VPN