lemmy.net.au

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This instance is hosted in Sydney, Australia and Maintained by Australian administrators.

Feel free to create and/or Join communities for any topics that interest you!

Rules are very simple

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https://join-lemmy.org/apps

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Think of it as an opensource alternative to reddit!

founded 1 year ago
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Welcome to lemmy.net.au: Understanding Lemmy and How to Use It

Hello and welcome to our Lemmy instance! If you're new here, you might be wondering what exactly Lemmy is and how it differs from other social platforms. This guide will help you understand Lemmy's unique structure and how to make the most of your experience here.

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a forum-style social media platform (sometimes called a 'link aggregator') similar to Reddit or Hacker News. Here, you can:

  • Share and discuss links, text posts, and images
  • Upvote and downvote content to determine what rises to the top
  • Join communities centered around specific topics or themes
  • Connect with users across the entire "fediverse"

What Makes Lemmy Different: The Federated Approach

The key difference between Lemmy and traditional social platforms is that Lemmy is federated. Here's what that means:

Instead of one central website controlled by a single company, Lemmy consists of multiple independent websites (called "instances") that are all connected to each other. Each instance is run by different organizations or individuals.

Think of it this way: If Reddit is like a single massive shopping centre with one owner setting all the rules, Lemmy is like George Street in Sydney, which has multiple shopping centres, each with their own management but where shoppers can freely move between them.

The Power of Federation

When you join lemmy.net.au, you're not just joining this instance - you're joining the entire Lemmy network. You can:

  • Interact with users from other instances
  • See and participate in communities hosted on other instances
  • Keep all your connections even if you decide to move to a different instance

This means if you don't like how one instance is being managed, you can move to another without losing access to your favorite communities or connections.

How Lemmy Works in Practice

Communities and Usernames

In Lemmy, both communities and usernames include the instance name:

  • Communities are shown as c/CommunityName@instance.org
  • Usernames appear as @username@instance.org

For example, a community on our instance might be c/Australia@lemmy.net.au, while a user might be @JaneDoe@lemmy.net.au.

Accessing Content Across Instances

With your lemmy.net.au account, you can:

  1. Subscribe to communities from any federated instance
  2. Comment on posts from any federated instance
  3. Message users from any federated instance

When you find a community hosted elsewhere (like c/Programming@programming.dev), you can interact with it just as if it were hosted here.

Finding Communities

To discover communities:

  1. Browse popular communities on lemmy.net.au
  2. Use the search function to find specific topics
  3. Try the Lemmyverse.net search engine for more comprehensive results

Reddit to Lemmy: Translation Guide

If you're coming from Reddit, here's a quick reference to help you understand the terminology:

Reddit Term Lemmy Equivalent
Subreddit Community
r/example c/example@instance
u/username @username@instance
Karma Score
Moderator Moderator (same!)
Award Not available (no awards system)
Crosspost No direct equivalent, but you can share links to posts
Sorting by "Hot" Sorting by "Hot" (same!)
Sorting by "New" Sorting by "New" (same!)
Reddit Premium No equivalent (no premium tier)

Finding Communities

There are several ways to discover communities on Lemmy:

  1. Browse popular communities on lemmy.net.au
  2. Use the search function to find specific topics
  3. Visit lemmyverse.net - This is an excellent search engine specifically designed for Lemmy that allows you to search across all federated instances

Lemmyverse.net is particularly useful because:

  • It indexes communities across the entire Lemmy network
  • You can search by keywords, topics, or community names
  • It shows activity levels and subscriber counts
  • It allows you to discover niche communities you might not find otherwise

When you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, simply copy its full name (including the instance) and search for it on lemmy.net.au to subscribe and participate. You might need to wait a few seconds after you search for the community to show up as the lemmy.net.au instance needs to connect to that instance and pull the information back.

Managing Your Experience

Blocking Content

If you encounter content you don't want to see:

  • You can block individual users
  • You can block entire communities
  • You can even block entire instances

If you believe a community or instance violates our community standards, please use the reporting function to alert the admin team!

Same Name, Different Communities

Sometimes you'll find communities with the same name on different instances (like c/News@lemmy.net.au and c/News@another-instance.org). These are separate communities with different moderators and potentially different rules.

This flexibility allows for diverse moderation styles and community cultures to coexist.

Getting Started

  1. Complete your profile - Add a bio and profile picture
  2. Find communities - Search for topics that interest you
  3. Subscribe - Join communities to see their content in your feed
  4. Participate - Comment, post, and vote to become part of the conversation

Need Help?

If you have questions or need assistance, feel free to comment on this post or message the admins.

Welcome to the fediverse - we're glad you're here!

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Post a comment with your creds, looking for some moderators for the site

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“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."

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I have my pangolin server set up and working, providing forward auth and roll based access before reverse proxying my self hosted resour.

However when I have the pangolin zero-trust client connected, I want to skip the forward auth since I'm already authed via the client. I want to do this since some apps like Jellyfin don't play nice with the forward auth.

I can't find a way to achieve this - there is no rule for connected clients. When I set up as a private response, then I don't get the reverse-proxy functionality, so when the client is connected my urls change (need to add ports), which isn't really acceptable.

I can set up another reverse proxy behind pangolin, but pangolin already provides reverse proxying so that seems silly.

What am I missing? How can I achieve the goal of skipping forward auth when the pangolin client is connected?

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He's going to hell for cussing on Easter.

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I'm not pet owner and I don't spend much time around animals in general. (Don't get me wrong, I love them, It's just I know I would be a terrible pet owner.)

How common it is for people to see, let's say, a dog and immediately just know whether it's "she" or "him"? If two dog owners meet in a park, would it be awkward for one of them to misgender the other's dog?

Of course, I mean without looking at the "obvious" traits.

Are there behaviors that are typical for male/female pets outside the one directly related to mating?

I recognize that within the animal kingdom, the traits are not always clear, and I guess gender is quite more flexible than sex. I would be interested in both aspects.

What about cats or other animals?

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so when i was 14, my middle school had this career fair. i always got childcare on the career tests I took, so I decided to explore those options. one of the jobs for kids my age was this daycare/learning center where you could help kids as young as 14.

however, i called this one woman who worked there one evening, asking if they still hired. she sighed heavily, saying in an exasperated and rude tone, “you can’t just ASK someone if they hire and interview them!!” when asking is the only way I could find out.

“besides,” she continued, “we already filled all the positions in april, so just go away.”

am I in the wrong or was that unprofessional of her? I liken her behavior and responses to that one grumpy friend you called for the 1000th time at 3 a.m.

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so when i was younger, my dad gifted me a book he helped write. i was in second grade and it was his only copy. i got bullied a lot at that school and someone must have stolen it. either way, it was over a decade ago. people laughed at me and the teacher yelled at me to sit back down, and i remember leaving to get something and checking back and it was gone.

my dad will switch often between being very nice and loving, then mad and stuff over the book, for example, then when i say idk where it is, he sends a bunch of heart emojis, acts more excited than usual, and says “thank you anyway!!!! <3”

furthermore, he will get into arguments easily which is also why he cant land a job, and then will get mad when someone is not “on his side”, calling people traitors and stuff for refusing to do favors for him and switching between really kind and loving to really mean and angry when someone doesn’t do what he wants.

he’s too self-absorbed to get a diagnosis and not self-aware enough, but everyone says he’s narcissistic.

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so, im clare and at school we are talking a lot about job listings. we do projects where we search on indeed for job listings, their benefits, their qualifications, and what job we wanna look for in the future but also as high schoolers.

it seems that being a math tutor entails passing a math test for at least algebra i at what I wanna look for. while i wasn't the best at algebra i, i ended up passing. i find geometry to be a lot easier and i'm starting to get the hang of using algebra when needed. i am not among the smartest of kids my age, who are in higher classes like algebra ii and trig or maybe even pre-calculus, but i am in a sophomore class as a freshman, which still shocks people.

i was slightly more advanced (a grade above) in math since 6th grade when the teacher said I needed a challenge. i'm even worse in honors english despite being an honors student, so im definitely not gonna apply for english tutoring even if there IS a job offering for such a thing.

however, being a barista at a grocery store where they have a starbucks or something, does not require experience from what I've seen, but you have to quickly memorize orders, work efficiently and quickly, and i heard the job can be somewhat stressful but i do love cafés, drinks, and especially coffee!

the only place I know besides that was working with children, which they said they were hiring as early as 14 with a permit, I think??? but they were so, so rude and said they were already hiring people and that the spots were full and in a rude tone, said “you can't just ASK someone if they hire".

where should I work?? tutor or barista? im also autistic so it may be hard for me as some people think im "too disabled" to do stuff most people can do like drive and work due to my slow reflexes, struggle to pay attention, remember things, etc.

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62014061

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A famous mine-clearing rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, has been commemorated with the world's first statue dedicated to a landmine-detecting rat.

Magawa, who lived to eight years old, sniffed out over 100 landmines and other explosives in Cambodia during his five-year career that started in 2016.

A statue of the rodent carved from local stone by artists was unveiled in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Friday, in time for the International Day for Mine Awareness on 4 April.

Landmines remain an ongoing risk to Cambodia, and more than a million people continue to work and live on land contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance, according to the United Nations.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is set to order a vast arsenal of chemical grenades, sprays, projectiles, and other weapons, according to procurement materials reviewed by The Intercept. The purchase follows months of abuse of these very munitions on American streets.

CBP will spend up to $50 million on what it refers to as “Less Lethal Specialty Munitions,” a euphemism for weapons intended to merely hurt or disable a target rather than killing them. The agency is looking for a vendor who can supply vast quantities of 123 different types of munitions across 10 different categories, the contracting document says.

“The sheer quantity and the myriad different weapons is the most remarkable thing to me,” Rohini Haar, an emergency physician and researcher of less lethal ordnance told The Intercept. “When there’s so many different kinds, it makes you question, tactically, what’s the goal there?”

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