Kalcifer

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The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points in c/main
[–] Kalcifer 12 points 12 hours ago

Liberapay doesn't take a cut of donations ^[1.1.1]^. They are only funded via donations, themselves ^[1.1.2][2]^. If a donation has fees, they are only transaction fees ^[1.1.3][1.2]^.

References

  1. "FAQ". Liberapay. Accessed: 2025-01-30T05:04Z. https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq.
    1. §"How is Liberapay funded? Are there fees?". https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded

      1. Liberapay does not take a cut of payments […]

      2. […] the service is funded by the donations to its own account […]

      3. […] there are payment processing fees.

    2. §"What are the payment processing fees?". https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq#fees.

      The fees vary by payment processor, payment method, countries and currencies. In the last year, the average fee percentages have been 3.1% for the payments processed by Stripe and 5.1% for the payments processed by PayPal.

  2. "Liberapay". Liberapay. Accessed: 2025-01-30T05:10Z. https://en.liberapay.com/Liberapay/.
Spirits, there's a new guy I like. How can I impress him? in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 7 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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Running Plasma instead of Gnome for the first time in years in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Just looks like windows to me […]

That's because Windows copied KDE Plasma, obviously. /j

[Elon Musk] January hasn't even ended and we already have the Photo of the Year. in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 1 points 4 days ago

Would putting something like "#Elon" at the end of the post accomplish the same?

I can’t believe _____ is not blocked in China in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hm, I have a hunch that is 😆

I can’t believe _____ is not blocked in China in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Goodbye.

I can’t believe _____ is not blocked in China in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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What is the origin of your username/nickname? in c/[email protected]
The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America" in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[…] the link in the post body goes to a “page doesn’t exist or has been deleted” message because of the period at the end […]

Ah! Interesting! That's good to know. I didn't consider that some Lemmy apps or browser UI's might not format the Markdown how I've been expecting. The correct CommonMark Markdown syntax for plain text links is to do <uri-inside-angle-brackets> ^[1]^; I'll change the URL in the post's body to that format to improve support. Thanks for letting me know! 😊

References

  1. "CommonMark Spec". John MacFarlane. Version: 0.31.2. Published: 2024-01-28. Accessed: 2025-01-21T01:27Z. https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#autolinks.
    • §6.5 ("Autolinks"):

      Autolinks are absolute URIs and email addresses inside < and >. They are parsed as links, with the URL or email address as the link label.

      A URI autolink consists of <, followed by an absolute URI followed by >. It is parsed as a link to the URI, with the URI as the link’s label.

      An absolute URI, for these purposes, consists of a scheme followed by a colon (:) followed by zero or more characters other than ASCII control characters, space, <, and >. If the URI includes these characters, they must be percent-encoded (e.g. %20 for a space).

      For purposes of this spec, a scheme is any sequence of 2–32 characters beginning with an ASCII letter and followed by any combination of ASCII letters, digits, or the symbols plus (“+”), period (“.”), or hyphen (“-”).

The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America" in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like the thread is gone now […]

Hrm, I can still see it.

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The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America" (community.openstreetmap.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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References

So I can hate myself twice as hard? in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who would top and who would bottom, though?

We tend to describe the pupil as though it's its own actual separate part of the eye. It's almost strange to think about the fact that in reality it's just a hole in the Iris and not a "thing" at all. in c/[email protected]
[–] Kalcifer 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could it not be said that "nothing" is actually a thing? 🤔

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TIL that Canada had anti-fraudulent witchcraft laws, and they were repealed in 2018 (self.til)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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  • R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, s. 365. Justice Laws Website. Government of Canada. Published: 2024-12-10. Accessed: 2025-01-04T22:46Z. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-365-20030101.html.

    365 Every one who fraudulently

    (a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,

    (b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or

    (c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,

    is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • "An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act" C-51. 42nd Parliament, 1st session. Parliament of Canada. Published: 2018-12-13. Accessed: 2025-01-04T22:50Z. https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/42-1/c-51.
    • §41

      Section 365 of the Act is repealed.

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If I have to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, doesn't that make me the journalist? (self.showerthoughts)
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To the admins and moderators of Lemmy: How often do you encounter disturbing content? How do you cope with the things that you see? (self.asklemmy)
 

And, if you are comfortable with sharing, what are some of the worst things that you've seen?

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Does reporting a user from Instance B on Instance A forward the report to Instance B's admin(s)? (self.lemmy_support)
 

Say a user from Instance B commented on a post on Instance A, and a user on Instance A saw it. If the user on Instance A were to report it, would that report be seen by the admin(s) of Instance B, or would it only be visible by the admin(s) of Instance A?

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"Gaslighting ChatGPT With Ethical Dilemmas" by Alex O'Connor (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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ReferencsTitle: "Gaslighting ChatGPT With Ethical Dilemmas". Author: "Alex O'Connor". YouTube. Published: 2024-11-30. Accessed: 2024-12-03T02:29Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOLlhGA9zg.

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"Gaslighting ChatGPT With Ethical Dilemmas" by Alex O'Connor (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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ReferencsTitle: "Gaslighting ChatGPT With Ethical Dilemmas". Author: "Alex O'Connor". YouTube. Published: 2024-11-30. Accessed: 2024-12-03T02:29Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOLlhGA9zg.

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Meru (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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This was my first time using alcohol markers. They're definitely different, but I like them a lot. It's far from perfect, but I think it's alright 😊. Note: While this was done freehand by me, the pose and everything wasn't my idea — I used this image as a reference.

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[SOLVED] When creating a post, how does the "Thumbnail URL" option work exactly? (self.lemmy_support)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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Solution

As was pointed out by @[email protected] ^[1]^, this feature was added in this pull request. It appears that the custom thumbnail field is only relevant for posts that share a URL: The "Thumbnail URL" field is used to specify a custom thumbnail to be used in place of what would've been automatically generated by the provided URL ^[2]^.

Original Post

I thought it would be for adding a custom thumbnail that appears for the post in the feed, but then that seems to be a duplicate of adding an image. At any rate, I tried adding an image link to it, and no image showed up for the post. So I'm not entirely sure what it's actually for.

EDIT (2024-11-30T22:22): Perhaps it's for the pre-expanded thumbnail for a post if it has an image? Does that mean that it only works if you have an image specified? Can it be used to override the thumbnail that's generated from a shared article? Does it work for a text post?

References

  1. @[email protected] [To: "When creating a post, how does the "Thumbnail URL" option work exactly?". "Kalcifer" (@[email protected]). sh.itjust.works. Published: 2024-11-30T22:24:10Z. Accessed: 2024-12-02T07:06Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28843300]. Feddit.org. Published: 2024-12-01T23:37:14Z. https://feddit.org/comment/3413077.
  2. "crates/api_crud/src/post/create.rs". LemmyNet/Lemmy. GitHub. Published: 2024-12-01T01:14:07.000Z. Commit: 5085d1c. Accessed: 2024-12-02T06:40Z. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/e49d346535f0769b85ad0fa4b0baabfbdba0deff/crates/api_crud/src/post/create.rs.
    • L91-L99 
      // Only generate the thumbnail if there's no custom thumbnail provided,
// otherwise it will save it in pictrs
let generate_thumbnail = custom_thumbnail.is_none();

// Fetch post links and pictrs cached image
let metadata = fetch_link_metadata_opt(url.as_ref(), generate_thumbnail, &context).await;
let url = proxy_image_link_opt_apub(url, &context).await?;
let thumbnail_url = proxy_image_link_opt_apub(custom_thumbnail, &context)
  .await?
  .map(Into::into)
  .or(metadata.thumbnail);
      • L93: A check is done for whether a custom thumbnail URL was provided.
      • L96: If it wasn't, then one will be generated from the shared URL.
      • L98: If a custom thumbnail URL was provided, it will be fetched from pictrs.
      • L99: If a custom thumbnail was not provided, fallback to the generated thumbnail.
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MVX Nexus is a proposed rail network for the south-coast (self.britishcolumbia)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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MVX Nexus, envisioned by Mountain Valley Express ^[2]^, a non-profit ^[3.1][3.2][4.2]^, based out of Metro Vancouver ^[4.1]^, is a regional rail network ^[2.1]^ proposed for the south-coast ^[2.1]^.

^[5]^

References

  1. "B.C. group proposes railway to connect most of the South Coast". CBC British Columbia. YouTube. Published: 2024-11-28. Accessed: 2024-11-30T03:35Z. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYRUAkEUu4.
  2. "MVX Nexus". Mountain Valley Express Society. Published: 2023. Accessed: 2024-11-30T03:29Z. https://www.mvx.vision/assets/nexus-min.pdf.
    1. §"Executive Summary"

      MVX Nexus is a fresh take on mobility on the South Coast. It is a 350-km regional rail network that connects Metro Vancouver with the mountains and the valley with connections to ferries and is future-proofed for eventual transborder high-speed rail.

  3. "About". Mountain Valley Express Society. Accessed: 2024-11-30T03:30Z. https://www.mvx.vision/about.html.
    1. Mountain Valley Express is a nonprofit Research and Advocacy organization dedicated to bringing world-class regional rail to the South Coast of BC.
    2. §"About the Society"

      MVX is a member- and donor-funded nonprofit society. The Society exists to conduct research and advocacy on public transit/transportation in the Lower Mainland.

  4. "Mountain Valley Express (MVX)". LinkedIn. Accessed: 2024-11-30T03:36Z. https://www.linkedin.com/company/mountain-valley-express-mvx/.

    1. Headquarters: Metro Vancouver

    2. Type: Nonprofit

  5. "Mountain Valley Express". Mountain Valley Express Society. Accessed: 2024-11-30T03:46Z. https://www.mvx.vision/index.html.
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These were found in Cascadia in mid-November. What are they? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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They were found in mid-november in the Salish Coast region of Cascadia. They were growing out of woodchips composed of a mixture of western hemlock (majority), and western red cedar.

Side view of one full mature specimen:

A group with a sample of the substrate (the cap appears to be umbonate):

A closeup side view, and internal view of the stem (it appears to be hollow):

Cross section of the gills — they appear to be adnate, or sub-decurrent:

Underside of view of the gills:

Spore print (first on white background (the split is due to two halves), second on a black background):

Examples specimens once dried:

Examples of the colony, and the location/substrate in which it was growing:

My initial thought was that they were Psilocybe cyanescens, but that's pretty much completely been confirmed as incorrect [1][2][3][4][5]. The current running theory is that they are Hypholoma dispersum[2][3]. What do you think they are?

References

  1. @Fliegenpilzgü[email protected]. [To: "Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information.". "Kalcifer" (@[email protected]). "Forage Fellows 🍄🌱" ([email protected]).]. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-11-20T13:30:31Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T03:16Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28348066/15147149.

    [...] I’m sorry to disappoint you, but even though they look similar to P. cyanescens, they aren’t.

    Cyans have white-ish stems, dark gills, a purple-black spore print and bruise blue almost instantly when touching them. [...]

  2. @the_[email protected]. [To: "Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information.". "Kalcifer" (@[email protected]). "Forage Fellows 🍄🌱" ([email protected]).] sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-11-20T03:46:33Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T03:16Z.

    Sorry to disappoint but looks like hypholoma dispersum to me.

    • there’s no blueing on the stems or margin in any of your photos, the ones you picked should have had stained blue anywhere you touched them
    • The margin isn’t translucent striate

    If the cap cuticle is peelable you could make a case that it’s not Hypholoma but without any blueing it’s gonna be Deconica not Psilocybe.

  3. @the_[email protected]. [To: "Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information.". "Kalcifer" (@[email protected]). "Forage Fellows 🍄🌱" ([email protected])]. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-11-22T16:16:30Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T03:21Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28348066/15185707.

    That’s consistent with Hypholoma, maybe next time.

  4. @[email protected]. [To: "Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information.". "Kalcifer" (@[email protected]). "What's this fungus?" ([email protected]).]. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-11-21T00:25:10Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T03:27Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28348065/15157911.

    [...] If I would see even a tiny speck of blue bruising I would be more inclined to agree with P. cyanescens, but I don’t see any at all, which makes me very suspicious. [...]

  5. @[email protected] [To: "Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information.". "Kalcifer" (@[email protected]). "Mushrooms" ([email protected]). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-11-23T02:12:43Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T03:36Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28348063.]. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-11-20T17:44:30Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T03:37Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28348063/15151371.

    the spore print is also brown here, but should be purple-ish black if it were Psilocybe spp., also the stipe looks wrong for that ID - I would say definitely not Psilocybe cyanescens (not just because they’re not bruising blue / purple / black).

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Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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View the spoiler for my guess at what I think it might be, but please first come to your own conclusion before looking at mine — I don't want to bias your guess.

My guessPsilocybe cyanescens

They were found in mid-november in the Salish Coast region of Cascadia. They were growing out of woodchips composed of a mixture of western hemlock (majority), and western red cedar.

Side view of one full mature specimen:

A group with a sample of the substrate (the cap appears to be umbonate):

A closeup side view, and internal view of the stem (it appears to be hollow):

Cross section of the gills — they appear to be adnate, or sub-decurrent:

Underside of view of the gills:

Spore print (first on white background (the split is due to two halves), second on a black background):

Examples specimens once dried:

Examples of the colony, and the location/substrate in which it was growing:

Cross-posts:

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