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

Mobile apps

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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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/New-Ranger-8960 on 2026-06-09 16:11:52+00:00.

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Federal-Block-3275 on 2026-06-09 16:02:23+00:00.

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136 on 2026-06-09 15:55:44+00:00.

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/rkhunter_ on 2026-06-09 15:51:51+00:00.

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136 on 2026-06-09 15:41:21+00:00.

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/joe4942 on 2026-06-09 15:25:15+00:00.

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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/PvUPDSDZg1k?t=4940 (Invidious just doesn't find this video for some reasons)

Hey listen! I don't know how to feel about this look. I'm happy about the Remake, because it will be realized in full 3D, without the early technical limitations of Nintendo 64. But I guess we need to see this in action in the game, rather than this quick few seconds at non gameplay sequence.

Will this be a re-imagining like Final Fantasy 7 Remake was? Sure the overworld map will be more interesting this time without loading screens in between the areas, with the lessons learned from Breath of the Wild. More than the graphics update, I'm very curious about the gameplay changes and how the world will be layed out. And the soundtrack off course.

How far will Nintendo diverge from the original? BTW I won't buy a Switch 2, so will miss out on this unfortunately.

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they can collect returns as long as they stay in the stocks

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A new paper from Moonshot AI tackles a key bottleneck in how language models handle depth. Standard residual connections just add up the outputs of all previous layers using fixed uniform weights, and uniform addition creates a problem where hidden states grow uncontrollably as the network gets deeper. As a result, the contributions of early layers end up getting completely buried and diluted by the time the data reaches the end of the model.

This happens to be the exact same issue older recurrent neural networks faced over time before attention mechanisms came along. Naturally, they tackle the problem in a similar way using attention residuals instead of a fixed accumulation and applying a softmax attention mechanism over the outputs of preceding layers. Now, every single layer gets a learned pseudo query vector that lets it selectively pick and choose which earlier representations it actually needs to look at. This allows the network to naturally retrieve information from anywhere in its depth depending on the specific input.

However, applying this over every individual layer is called Full AttnRes and it comes with a massive catch which is that saving all those individual layer outputs creates memory and communication bottlenecks during large scale distributed training because the overhead scales linearly with the number of layers. So, in order to make the architecture actually usable they grouped the layers into chunks and summed up the outputs inside each block. The cross layer attention is then only applied over these compressed block level summaries rather than every single layer drastically reducing the memory and communication footprint.

By combining a block structure with a smart cross stage caching system and a two phase computation strategy the setup becomes a practical drop in replacement with practically zero training overhead. Their experimental results show that the performance boost holds up consistently across different model sizes.

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So, yes this is selfhosting related. I am working on an n8n flow to pull in weather data so that I can have this data on a dashboard. I can't find any dockerized weather forecasting apps. Most of them connect to a personal weather station, which might be an option in the future. For the time being, this is a little project I'm working on.

Partial JSON snippet:

spoiler

0	
json	
cod	"200"
message	0
cnt	40
list	
0	
dt	1780693200
main	
temp	29.4
feels_like	29.23
temp_min	29.4
temp_max	29.68
pressure	1019
sea_level	1019
grnd_level	984
humidity	42
temp_kf	-0.28
weather	

I would like to display something like this:

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Current temperature: 23.25 °C
Feels like: 24.09 °C
Low / High: 23.25 °C / 23.60 °C
Humidity: 94%
Atmospheric pressure: 1023 hPa (sea level: 1023 hPa, ground level: 988 hPa)
Temperature correction factor (temp_kf): -0.35

Weather: Light rain
Weather code: 500
Short condition: Rain
Icon: 10d

So, this is for you devs or coders out there. I can produce the JSON data. I'm just not sure how to parse it to something meaningful. I'm sure Python will have to be incorporated, but unsure of how to proceed.

Maybe someone could point me in a direction to tuts, articles, or your own experience. Sorry the JSON data doesn't format correctly. Lemmy formatting doesn't seem to allow that.

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President Donald Trump has accused Iran of shooting down a United States military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that he will respond to the attack.

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday.

“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

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President Donald Trump has accused Iran of shooting down a United States military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that he will respond to the attack.

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday.

“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

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