I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
Otter
I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Thank you for compiling the links :)
It’s worth a read, but if you don’t have time
What makes this revival uncomfortable is its timing. Phyllis could not respond. Her family, largely gone. There was no one left to correct the record or explain the circumstances. The image became a blank screen onto which modern viewers projected assumptions about drug use, morality, and personal failure.
Yet when her life is examined even briefly, those assumptions collapse. There is no evidence that she was a habitual drug user. No record of repeated arrests. No trail of chaos or criminality. Instead, there is a woman born into economic uncertainty, injured young, living through wartime upheaval, briefly targeted by an unjust legal system, and then settling into a quiet, unremarkable life.
The insult survives because it is easy. The truth requires effort.
The Reddit comment that circulates alongside Phyllis’s image captures something essential about her case. In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.
The same laws that ensnared Phyllis were used disproportionately against the poor, women, and people of colour. Their eventual repeal is often celebrated as progress, but repeal does not undo the damage done to those who lived under them.
Phyllis Stalnaker did not become a symbol in her lifetime. She did not campaign, protest, or write memoirs. Her story matters precisely because it is small. It reminds us how many lives were quietly constrained by laws that have since been forgotten, and how easily a single photograph can erase complexity.
Her revival online offers a choice. She can remain a joke, or she can be recognised as what she was: a woman shaped by her time, subjected to its injustices, and deserving of more than a label.
Otter@lemmy.cato
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a platform like github that isn't for code?
5·4 days agoYeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?
I haven’t tried any, but I would think so yes. You can probably run a script over the files to accomplish the same thing :)
Otter@lemmy.cato
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a platform like github that isn't for code?
12·4 days agoIf it helps, a number of courses at my university used open source git based textbooks. For example, you can replicate this Statistics textbook using any static site generator designed for documentation: https://moderndive.com/ (https://github.com/moderndive/ModernDive_book/)
We use vitepress for our docs: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Or you can get even simpler by using plain markdown files organized into folders.
In my opinion, it’s better to start off simple while writing the content since then you can pick a tool based on what type of formatting you end up needing
Otter@lemmy.cato
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a platform like github that isn't for code?
8·4 days agoLaTeX has been around for a lot longer, and Typst is one of the projects looking to replace it
Typst is a lot more intuitive and easier to use, but it might be missing some packages and tools that were designed for LaTeX.
For your purposes, I think it would work just fine
Is there a robust test suite?
Merge, test, merge, test, patch, merge, test
Oh good point 🤦
So maybe instead, we can clear all local + remote branches and tags, create a blank branch, delete main, rename the blank branch to main, then delete .git
Although the OP says that we can merge anything, and we might not have access to mess with branches
Goodbye
fedecan.ca
I’m not sure about the git history wipe, I can’t test it myself right now
rm -rf * git add -A git commit -m "oops." rm -rf .git git init git add . git commit -m "bye." git push origin main --force
Cat just needs one solid killshot to win.
Cat might need three, if we are going off the assumption that it needs to take out all three hearts. Although I think octopi have one “brain” type organ
Welcome!
For the rules, could you use different formatting? A lot of users use mobile apps, and some of them don’t format markdown the way Lemmy does. The spoiler tag in particular doesn’t get rendered in a lot of them.
For example, this is what I see in Boost:

Perhaps you can do something like
## Rules 1: 😇 Be Nice! - Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: **friendly** 2: 👶 Keep it at PGWhich will format like this
Rules
1: 😇 Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly
2: 👶 Keep it at PG
You could also shorten some of them to make it more likely that people will read them. For example, moving this to the bottom of the rules section, or taking it out entirely:
Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanantly banned from posting.
I also liked the old sidebar’s guidance on “complete stories” because it sums up what this community is intended for and differentiates it from “comics” and “memes”. I don’t know if it needs to be stated explicitly, but you could potentially include it right at the top with the description line.
I’m also happy to help out if the moderation load gets too much to handle. Feel free to add my LW account if at any point the team could use more hands: https://lemmy.world/u/otter
Otter@lemmy.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'English
2·8 days agoThere is deepwiki, which can give you a similar overview. You will need to do the subsequent animations yourself afterwards
Otter@lemmy.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'English
6·8 days agoWeird, it loads instantly for me. Maybe you have some settings that are blocking the page?
Otter@lemmy.cato
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When texlive is updated… (openSUSE TW, 2029 updated packages)
4·8 days agoIt was a full replacement for me, but I was only using it for personal use.
If you need a unique and specific package, you might have trouble finding it since the LaTeX ecosystem has been around for decades longer. The other drawback would be collaboration and interacting with journals, where the people that grew up with LaTeX might be resistant to changing to something new. I’m not personally in the research side now, so I can’t comment on it much further. I would assume that adoption also varies by the field of research.
Otter@lemmy.cato
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When texlive is updated… (openSUSE TW, 2029 updated packages)
23·9 days agoI switched from LaTeX to Typst this year, and while I didn’t do it for this reason, it’s a nice side benefit
Otter@lemmy.cato
Opensource@programming.dev•Waterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by default
36·13 days agoThe blocker runs in the main browser process rather than as a web extension, which means it isn’t subject to the limitations that extension based blockers like uBlock Origin face.
Waterfox is a fork of Firefox though, why would it face the limitations that chrome has?















Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?