On April 9, Carney made a speech addressing the rights of LGBTQ+ Canadians at a political event in Calgary, the first time he’d addressed LGBTQ+ issues during the election campaign.

The Yukon News reports that Dylan Robertson, a reporter with the Canadian Press, asked Carney if his government would protect access to gender-affirming care under the Canada Health Act, and also what would be done about “the backsliding” that Robertson claimed gender and sexual minorities in Canada are facing.

Carney responded to say he would defend the rights of “all Canadians,” stating: “We are all Canadians, but we all have different identities and distinctions, and one of the great strengths of this country is recognizing that people can be who they are, they can love who they love, they can live where they are, and it’s fundamentally important that the federal government is the defender of those rights, defender of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, adding: “access to health care in Canada is not a business, it is a fundamental right for all Canadians without exception.”

With the April 2025 release of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, it feels like the era of Starfield is coming to an end. The latest original IP from Bethesda Game Studios, Starfield, got a considerably more lukewarm response than anyone could have predicted, and, at this point, it feels like Microsoft and Bethesda are trying to brush it under the rug. A rumored Starfield PS5 release was recently reinforced by a trusted insider, but after that, it seems like Bethesda's premiere space-exploration RPG will end up being grounded.

Credit u/SpicyEggyolk

Nemeria IV-A, swamp (coast) biome!

Abstract

Free space optical (FSO) communication using lasers is a rapidly developing field in telecommunications that can offer advantages over traditional radio frequency technology. For example, optical laser links may allow transmissions at far higher data rates, require less operating power and smaller systems and have a smaller risk of interception. In recent years, FSO laser links have been demonstrated, tested or integrated in a range of environments and scenarios. These include FSO links for terrestrial communication, between ground stations and cube-sats in low Earth orbit, between ground and satellite in lunar orbit, as part of scientific or commercial space relay networks, and deep space communications beyond the moon. The possibility of FSO links from and to the surface of Mars could be a natural extension of these developments. In this paper we evaluate some effects of the Martian atmosphere on the propagation of optical communication links, with an emphasis on the impact of dust on the total link budget. We use the output of the Mars Climate Database to generate maps of the dust optical depth for a standard Mars climatology, as well as for a warm (dusty) atmosphere. These dust optical depths are then extrapolated to a wavelength of 1.55 μ𝜇\muitalic_μm, and translated into total slant path optical depths to calculate link budgets and availability statistics for a link between the surface and a satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit. The outcomes of this study are relevant to potential future missions to Mars that may require laser communications to or from its surface. For example, the results could be used to constrain the design of communication terminals suitable to the Mars environment, or to assess the link performance as a function of ground station location.

For a moment, Dafyd Alkhor saw the universe the way a Carryx would, and it was beautifully simple and utterly horrific.

From what I understand the Carryx actually have a simple view of the universe which is simultaneously crazy successful. The equivalent of rolling the dice again and again until you win at the species level. Every Carryx individual starts off with semi randomized genetics and then is slowly reduced in the society until they reach soldier class. Captured species/tools are given a variety of tasks and they just keep the ones who do a good job.

Seems like a caste system but innate. They don't really even have enemies, just species who haven't been captured.

I'm wondering if my explanation here is accurate or if I'm missing a few points? I'm also interested in what blind spots such perspectives on the universe has? I still see Tkson of the cohort Malkal being ready to kill Dafyd for suggesting that individual Carryx could have choice as being similar to Caste system lovers being ready to use violence to perpetuate the caste system. We also see a subjugator prime and secondary librarians during the battle with galactic humans being upset/resentful at suicide orders which hints that the caste system isn't as hard coded as the Carryx like to pretend.

From https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/4/15/voters-think-legal-residents-and-undocumented-immigrants-should-have-due-process

This release fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to delete images uploaded by other users. You can read the details in the security advisory. Thanks to @Nothing4You for discovering and fixing it.

An improper uploaded media ownership check can result in inadvertent deletion of media when a user is banned with content removal or purged. This can lead to deletion of media that was not uploaded by the banned/purged user. This also applies to purged communities, in which case all media posted in that community will get deleted without proper ownership check. This is limited to media with an image/* content-type returned by pict-rs.

In addition to the fun changelog:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11

I'm guessing there is no way to use Lemmy without having javascript enabled?