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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38950495

https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116111505546606451

Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark has said, after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he wants to acquire.

“The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland,” the country’s defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told the Danish broadcaster DR on Sunday.

In Greenland, as in Denmark, access to healthcare is free. There are five regional hospitals across the vast Arctic island, with the Nuuk hospital serving patients from all over the territory.

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, defended Denmark’s healthcare system, writing on Facebook that she was “happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all. Where it’s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment.”

“You have the same approach in Greenland,” she said, before adding: “Happy Sunday to you all” in front of a blushing, smiling emoji.

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The federal government says there may not be enough room in some offices for all workers as the public service prepares to return to the office four days a week starting July 6.

Civil servants currently only have to come into the office three days a week — a rule that was put in place in September 2024 as government employees were for the most part working remotely in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier this month, the federal government announced it expects employees who haven't done so already to return to in-office work for a minimum of four days a week starting this July. Government executives will be expected in the office five days.

In a French-language statement emailed this week to Radio-Canada, the Treasury Board of Canada said that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) will work closely with organizations to ensure "adequate office space" is available for staff.

most of the instances I could find were filled with liberal centrists who call themselves leftist, and hate actual theory-reading commies.

something politically like lemmy.ml or even like lemmygrad would be perfect.

it also shouldn't be heavily defederated against

Dude, Where Is My Beer? is a point and click aventure in which you play a middle aged man who just wants to drink a normal pilsner. At the beginning of the game you arrive in Oslo per bus and want to use your beak time to get a cold beer. But it gets clear relatively quickly that everyone in this damn city is young and hip and drinks fancy craft beers. At first that sounds like a fun game, but is it? (tl;dr I don't think so)

It's a relatively short game that (obviously) focuses on its humor. But there are two major flaws with this game:

First: The humor. This game makes fun of hipster tropes and the culture of different kinds of bars. I thought I would like that. But after only 15 minutes I thought it was just annoying. It just feels like it's just the same joke on repeat over and over and over. You get in a bar, you ask for a pilsner, the bartender says you are old and unhip and offers you beers the wildest of names. There are multiple different bars that represent different tropes of drinking culture. A sports bar, a bar with some pub quiz going on, ... It feels like all forms of this joke has already been told before the game was released. It got dull way to early for the game to be fun.

Second: Speaking of fun, let's get to the gameplay. It's a point and click, a genre notorious for it's weird puzzles that reach to the point of being basically unsolvable without just mindlessley just clicking everything. And for me, this game is just this. I played on normal difficulty where it is possible to get some hints. But those hints are often missing if you are already in the middle of a puzzle without knowing. Or the hint is "just explore more". And this is the most frustrating thing about this game. In most adventures when you solve a puzzle you get some kind of clue or item which leads to the next puzzle. That's barely the case in this game. Lete give you an example: A woman needs a pen. So you try to find a pen. Some puzzle solving later you give her the pen and what happens? She just starts a phone call. That's it. No reward, no real interaction, nothing. So what are you doing next? Explore the whole map again and see if something changed. The game is too often completely unresonsive to your actions, I found it rather frustrating. At some point I just opened the guide if it took too long to find out what I have to do next.

That's my review/rant about Dude, Where Is My Beer? Has anyone else played it and a similar experience? Or do you disagree with me? And what is your favorite beer?

Ah, and before I forget, the positive things about this game: The soundtrack was okay, I guess? It did not get annoying in 4,5h of playtime? Also,... nah, I think that's it.

Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be "locked behind a paywall"

CBS has announced it will finally air a controversial 60 Minutes segment investigating one of the Trump administration’s most bizarre claims.

After weeks of uncertainty following MAGA-curious Bari Weiss’s takeover of the broadcaster, the “white genocide” segment headed by outgoing 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper will air on Sunday.

The episode, which was delayed due to an “abnormal” editing process, is slated to reveal the whole story about an alleged “genocide” of the caucasian diaspora in South Africa.

“President Trump says that White farmers in South Africa are victims of a genocide,” 60 Minutes wrote in promotional copy ahead of the release.

“The South African government disputes that claim. 60 Minutes traveled to South Africa to see for ourselves.”

Following this thread:

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-app-root-disable-block-ipv6-on-android-prevent-ipv6-leak-on-vpn.3298659/page-2

I discovered that echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 indeed works on my Samsung Galaxy S23 (One UI 7.0). However, a reboot undoes this, because it reloads system configs from a prepackaged image.

One could decompress the image, make the relevant tweaks, recompress the image and have Bob be your uncle that way, according to a quick search on the World Wide Web. However, for those of you that use Magisk - and maybe are rooted through Magisk, I am unsure (my S23 is rooted with Magisk) -, there are some directories that I suppose Magisk sets up to be used for custom boot up scripts:

https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/blob/master/docs/guides.md#boot-scripts

Taking inspiration from these two guides:

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-run-a-script-at-every-boot-using-magisk.4454493/ https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-change-any-file-or-directory-using-magisk.4543103/

I decided to put my script for disabling ipv6 into /data/adb/service.d

While this did disable ipv6 for some of the interfaces among the - pardon my French - messed up array that is the Android network stack (since I don't understand it, that is...), some interfaces either remain ipv6-enabled or get reconfigured during or after boot. Thus, I tried giving the script some waiting time, which worked. Now, after each boot, all of my relevant interfaces are ipv6-disabled:

#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 60 ; echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6

This did not prolong the boot process 60 seconds.

Monthly Active Users:

Difference:

Change (%):

• Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website.
• Source: Fediverse-Observer
• Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, I didn't dig through the code to figure out why that would be).

Takeaways:

• Big growth in the Fediverse this week (ex. Mastodon >50%, Lemmy and Piefed >10%). Looks like the Fediverse-Observer software updated yesterday and found(?) a bunch of previously unknown servers (10-50%). Due to the change, my API code now works and made this post far easier :)
• Piefed and Loops had positive growth each day last week
• Congrats to Piefed (>5000 MAU) and PeerTube (>40,000 MAU) for reaching All-Time highs
• Forgejo lost a server in the last week that had ~80% of its users (20260217)
• Fediverse bigger than it was a 12 months ago!

Mods: Again, feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.

1. Edit: Fixed Threadiverse Change (%)s. Known bug, will fix for next time (already fixed).
2. Edit: Added another takeaway. Changed the code to be more accurate and added the result (a couple numbers slightly changed)

Raising awareness about what constitutes human trafficking and signs that could save someone from being exploited is important work in Thunder Bay, Ont. — which federal data suggests is an especially problematic hub for trafficking in Canada.

“It’s happening here in Thunder Bay. A lot of people don't think it is, but it is,” Cindy Paypompee, co-chair of the Thunder Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, said Friday.

Paypompee was interviewed by CBC News ahead of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on Sunday. The coalition — formed in 2018, and consisting of law enforcement, health, education and social service providers — held an awareness event at the Intercity Shopping Centre on Friday.

According to Statistics Canada, over 5,000 human trafficking incidents overall were reported to police between 2014 and 2024. Thunder Bay, with a population of about 118,000, saw the highest average annual rates in the country during that decade.

Thunder Bay’s average annual rate was 8.0 per 100,000 population, compared to the national average of 1.5 per 100,000 population, according to the data agency's latest report, released in December.

This kid:

A study conducted by researchers at CCC, which is based at the MIT Media Lab, found that state-of-the-art AI chatbots — including OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus, and Meta’s Llama 3 — sometimes provide less-accurate and less-truthful responses to users who have lower English proficiency, less formal education, or who originate from outside the United States. The models also refuse to answer questions at higher rates for these users, and in some cases, respond with condescending or patronizing language.