Otter Raft
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Psychosis rates climb among young people in Ontario, researchers findEnglish
3·3 days agoFixed, sorry about that
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web BackupsEnglish
8·8 days agoIt might be this bit
On top of that, backup and restore functionality is now fully supported in the web interface. Users can restore database backups directly from the Immich UI, either through the administration maintenance page or during onboarding of a new instance.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadian doctors say they’re losing 20 million hours a year to unnecessary paperworkEnglish
4·9 days agoHere is the report: https://digitallibrary.cma.ca/media/Digital_Library_PDF/2026 Losing doctors to desk work EN.pdf
See “Appendix B: Provincial/territorial estimates of physician administrative burden and full-time equivalent gain” on page 37.

For BC specifically, there was this recent article:
Family doctors in B.C. are calling on the province to cut digital red tape, saying outdated systems and unnecessary paperwork are slowing patient care and increasing wait times.
It comes as a new national study shows doctors across the province are spending three million hours per year handling administrative work.
The latest report, released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and the Canadian Medical Association, released as part of the Red Tape Awareness Week, found that doctors in B.C. spend nearly 10 hours a week on administrative work.
It estimates that eliminating unnecessary paperwork in B.C. could free up an equivalent of more than 1,400 full-time doctors.
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Opensource@programming.dev•Windhawk (an open Source customization marketplace for Windows) released v1.7English
3·2 months agoI was already on Windows 11 when I tried it, but I do see some mods labelled for Windows 10 and earlier versions. That makes me think it also supports Windows 10
tagging @richieadler@programming.dev as well
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Maya, 17, got mental health records by FOI, then killed herself. Her mom wants reform | Politics | thecanadianpressnews.caEnglish
151·2 months agoSince doctors/staff communicate to each other in a shorthand, and it would be very difficult to make all that internal communication written in an accessible way. We would likely need a separate team of people transcribing and adding context to all the notes.
What might be a good first step is freeing up healthcare capacity to respond to patient’s inquiries. After that, if we can set up some way of communicating the available resources to the person who FOI’s the medical records, they can get in touch if they have questions.
Thank you for sharing the story. Hope you both find strength and clarity, regardless of what the future holds.
Take care of yourself as well!
That’s fair, your words are valid as well.
I don’t think this comic is necessarily heartwarming or wholesome. It’s a short story that shares details from the author’s life. I can see how it can give hope to some while making others feel worse.
I’m sorry for your loss
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Android@lemdro.id•The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop - Ars TechnicaEnglish
1·2 months agoThere were a handful of times when I saw students using airdrop to send files in school, but email / google drive was the most common way to do it.
The choice to make Airdrop an Apple-only feature might have hurt adoption
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation?English
0·3 months agoWould you have an example of a community where it works? I was trying it earlier, but I wasn’t getting any content in the feed
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Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•"Maybe This Phone ISN’T Just for Criminals - Trying Graphene OS for a Month" - Linus Tech TipsEnglish
0·3 months agoLinus videos have clickbait titles like that, and it’s in reference to some news articles calling GOS an OS for criminals
Title and thumbnail aside, the video was a positive review of GOS and was made with help from a GOS team member. I probably should have added the extra context before it got downvoted away 😄
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Android@lemdro.id•"Maybe This Phone ISN’T Just for Criminals - Trying Graphene OS for a Month" - Linus Tech TipsEnglish
2·3 months agoLinus videos have clickbait titles like that, and it’s in reference to some news articles calling GOS an OS for criminals
Title and thumbnail aside, the video was a positive review of GOS and was made with help from a GOS team member. I probably should have added the extra context before it got downvoted away 😄
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada’s tariff wall on Chinese electric vehicles is deepening dependence on the U.S.English
1·5 months agoWe do manufacturer some cars
The government justified its “tariff fortress” by pointing to China’s extensive industrial policy, such as subsidies, that artificially lower production costs. The tariffs were claimed to protect domestic producers by offsetting the cost advantage enjoyed by Chinese EV manufacturers.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•New study shows how Amazon trees use recent rainfall in the dry season and support the production of their own rainEnglish4·5 months agoSpecifically, if the “flying rivers” of transpiration during dry seasons are from deep water tables or shallow groundwater:
The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet’s longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features “flying rivers:” invisible streams of vapour that travel through the atmosphere, fuelling rainfall both within the forest and far beyond its boundaries.
The forests play a central role in this system. Much of the moisture that rises into the atmosphere comes from transpiration. Trees pull water from the soil through their roots, transport it to the leaves and release it as vapour. That vapour becomes rainfall — sometimes locally, sometimes hundreds of kilometres away.
In the dry season when rain is scarce, up to 70 per cent of rainfall in the Amazon comes from this moisture-recycling generated by the forest itself. This raises a key question: where do the trees find the water to keep the cycle going during the driest months?
The results were surprising. Most water used for transpiration in the dry season did not come from deep reserves, but from shallow soil. In a year without extreme drought or floods, 69 per cent of transpiration on the hill and 46 per cent in the valley came from the top 50 centimetres of soil.
Our research also found that water stored in the shallow soil had fallen on land recently, specifically during the dry season. In other words, the forest rapidly recycles the rain: it falls, infiltrates shallow soil, is absorbed by roots and is released back into the atmosphere, fuelling new rainfall — right when the forest needs water most.
This is important because:
This delicate balance is threatened by deforestation. When forests are cut down, fewer trees release moisture into the air through transpiration, reducing the formation of local and nearby rainfall during the dry season.
Forest loss weakens the very system that sustains rainfall — the recycling of water through transpiration. Our study shows that embolism-resistant trees play a central role by quickly returning dry-season rainfall to the atmosphere, where it fuels new rainfall.
The message is clear: without the forest, there is no rain, and without rain, no forest. The quick recycling of dry-season rain keeps the Amazon alive through its driest months. It also plays a crucial role in triggering the return of the wet season. If the forest loses its ability to recycle this water, the entire hydrological cycle risks collapse.
To be honest, I was hoping someone would link to the reference. Maybe the joke is how ridiculous this would be when spoken out loud vs. text
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Opioid deaths in Canada fell 17% in 2024, but thousands are still dyingEnglish
3·6 months agoPer capita as well but it varies by region, there is an interactive graph on the article
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British Columbia@lemmy.ca•Canada's biggest bubble tea fest comes to Burnaby this weekend | Food & DrinkEnglish
3·6 months agoThat’s fair, personally I enjoy them when I go with friends. I get a chance to catch up with friends and enjoy the atmosphere, then head somewhere else for lunch/dinner. I thought this one might be fun for the free performances / games, and if it’s terrible then there’s always the rest of Burnaby Central Park
We can do all of those things outside an event too, but making plans attached to events helps in some way
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Hockey@lemmy.ca•Seattle Kraken's mascot was nearly attacked by a bear in frightening video | SportsEnglish
2·6 months agoHere is the xcancel version: https://xcancel.com/i/status/1950981195208204387
I had an error uploading the video to catbox, but I can try somewhere else if the xcancel link doesn’t work
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Ontario health agency informed of cyberattack more than 2 months before telling patients | Globalnews.caEnglish
5·6 months agoIn his letter Friday to Kosseim, Shamji said that nearly one-third of all home-care patients in the province had their data compromised.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/data-breach-ontario-health-at-home-mpp-1.7572411
I couldn’t find specifics, but maybe you’ll be contacted now if you were affected?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0English
9·6 months agoI missed the link somehow, I’ve edited the post now. It’s open source (GPLv3).
They started as a startup, then shut down and open-sourced the project, and now it looks like they’re pivoting to something else


















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