i dont think this is nsfw per se but just to be safe

also shamelessly plugging in !undertale_deltarune@lemmy.world and !deltarune@sopuli.xyz

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Agencies tout very high success rates, but some experts compare it to “crime control theatre”

On Sunday, March 22 of this year, a large swath of the population in Quebec was woken up at 4:25 a.m. as cellphones lit up and screamed. An Amber alert had been broadcast. Less than four hours later, the two missing children were thankfully found, unharmed, and the alert was cancelled.

Amber alerts cast wide nets in an effort to find abducted children and teenagers, but each time one is transmitted in Canada, we go through a predictable cycle. Many complain that these alerts cannot be turned off or muted, even in sleep mode, and that waking people up in the middle of the night to help them find a specific car that was last spotted 200 kilometres away is unnecessarily disruptive—with some even calling 911 to complain. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials remind us through the media that these alerts are only used when necessary and that they save lives.

Any subject tied to the safety of children is bound to evoke the deepest emotions. In fact, the crime that led to the creation of Amber alerts—and to their name—was monstrous enough that it’s no wonder it rallied influential people into building a system that could potentially prevent this kind of crime.

But warranted emotions aside, do Amber alerts even work? What little data we do have point to a system that has likely been oversold to us.

So, I’ve got a homelab thing going, with NextCloud and Immich and other things… using Docker. But the one thing I can’t seem to wrap my head around is how to get my calendar needs met behind the scenes. I’m hoping there’s some sort of calendar syncing server I can use.

The problem: I use NextCloud and another android app to use my calendar. Easy. Historically, my household has used a single Google Calendar shared amongst members.

The real problem: They won’t ditch Google. But I need a solution so that I can:

1. Sync their calendar events to my NextCloud calendar.
2. Sync my calendar events to their Google Calendar. I think that the issue here is, the share links that the calendars give, can only be used to list a new separate calendar on each of the respective platforms - not sync the events between the existing calendars…

I’m hoping that there’s maybe a syncing solution out there that can play middle man and sync the two calendars directly, rather than having separate calendars for the two environments?

more purpleposts? more mamaposts? more stuff where i’m shilling some product and peeps get mad at me? idunno…

i’m realizing now that i could have just traced the photo buuuut all those pretentious art people always say “tracing is terrible and you should never do it” and they they go on a rand about image gen, sooooo i won’t do it. proportions are off by quite a bit. eh, oh well.

i want to make more mamaposts. those are fun, that’s the mood i’m in right now. but also i know that those might come across as too direct or so. i mean, look at this one from ancient times… gosh, those were different times and i do kinda want those to come back. i want to be more forward, not just in comments but in posts as well.
and i guess nothing is stopping me, but i’m always thinking “does this fit on 196?” and the answer is “not really”. but like - most of my stuff doesn’t fit on here sooo… i’m my own filter.
purpleposts are great too but there is a limit to how many scenarios i come up with which

• make sense in a 2 - 6 panel comic
• feel safe to share with y’all
• make the reader feel fuzzies
• don’t go too far while still being exciting

sooooo what to post?

i wish you a wonderful day in which you can express yourself freely ~

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Personally, Vanguard anti cheat and a lack of real ownership made this a no-go for me. I’m very in the FGC, but everyone I know that still plays the game, hates it. I don’t know why they do it.

The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50854162

Gran Turismo 7 for me.

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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50893918

some of these are good, others suck 🤷‍♀️

I’m a fan of “presidential”

auto erotic asphyxiation purple really takes the cake tbh

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Yani Neko, episode 8

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I’m a complete and utter newbie to this. But, based on the discussion about “not needing a new phone” and the availability of alternatives in Canada, can anyone recommend what might act as a suitable alternative to Android and iPhone OS. Ideally, I can keep my phone and just use a different OS. But I have some problems and could use some foundational knowledge to start my research and make a decision:

1. I’m trying to keep my Samsung S21 Ultra as long as possible. I looked at Graphene and Lineage and both do not support it from what I can tell.
2. Internet, heavy data use is not an issue. I have wi-fi wherever I go.
3. I’d prefer not to buy a new phone. If I need to buy a used phone, I am leaning towards an older Pixel and Graphene OS. Is that a sound decision? If not, are there phones such as Fairphone (not in Canada…) to consider?

Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari, episode 7

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Has this occurred to y’all? My browser as of lately suddenly checks. Even if I just search on “remove trackers” and a lot of normal links, I get the note “we nEed to VEriFY yOURE not a ROBOT”… it feels like Cloudflare et al are trying to force man in the middle attacks on you. And this also occurs on other browsers with other kinds of ““verifiers””.

The web’s becoming cancerous. I hate this.

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BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita, episode 10

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My payment processor just terminated my account and i am reminded once again too self host literally everything.

I already have a self hosted crypto rail but for many people that is not an option, bank transfer is quite easy to do with just checking against my bank’s API, but remembering from the data before i got terminated it was around 40% transfer, 40% ideal, 20% card.

Is there anyway to self host those other payment ways outside transfer?

Does anyone have experience with this?

If you do thank you very much!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/soulslike@lemmy.zip/p/913453/vaatividya-i-played-12-hours-of-the-duskbloods-gameplay-footage

It’s real! First footage and gameplay impressions of Fromsoft’s next game.

Ganso! Bandori-chan, episode 46

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