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For years I've been using DejaVu fonts, but in the last years I had the feeling that this project had been abandoned. And indeed it has.

Does anyone know of good open-source alternatives?

I've heard of GNU Unifont, which seems still alive, but it isn't the kind of font one would use for, say, slides or websites.

Liberation and Kurinto were interesting (though not au par with DejaVu, in my opinion), but seem to have been abandoned as well.

I'm tired of Google and personally am not interested in fonts commissioned by them.

You can find it at /c/[email protected] or [email protected].

I was looking for such a kind of community to post a question, but a search in https://browse.feddit.de/ showed that no such community seems to exist as yet in the Fediverse. So why not creating one.

I'm often seeing links to posts on Mastodon and, when I click on them, they open in a Mastodon instance different from mine (I mean from the one where I have my account). This means that I cannot reply, boost, etc, that post.

The very roundaboundaboundabout way to solve this is to go to your instance and search/"explore" for that post.

Is there a smoother way to address this problem?

I found 1001 "beginner's guides for Mastodon" online and after reading 3 without finding any solution, I decided to ask here.

A similar problem existed with communities (and still exists with posts) in different Lemmy instances, but luckily tools like the Lemmy Instance Assistant solve this rather smoothly with a click.

PS: sorry if this sounds like a rant – it isn't. Just asking for info. I'm sure problems like this will eventually be solved in the Fediverse :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916492

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

There's an old youtube channel by "Avamogal" (apparently "a mom to 7 boys. 10 grandkids 8 boys, 2 girls") which is full of great collages of Buster clips, with interesting music backgrounds. Recommended.

Sadly it seems the channel hasn't been active for 6 years or so...

If I want to link to a community X on a Lemmy instance Y.zzz, I know I should use the link /c/[email protected], which will redirect to the copy of the instance on the server where the user has the account.

What is the analogous way to link to a post? For example this post has address lemmy.ca/post/1866360 but what link should I give to users on another instance, so that they can see the post in their instance?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1721793

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2032

There are two kinds of colours that appear in each torrent entry in Nyaa's listings:

• One for the rectangle in the "Category" column. I see many different colours there: purple, red, dark and light grey, green, orange, dark and light yellow...

• One for the whole row. Here I've only seen three different colours so far: white, green, red.

Do these colours, especially the second, mean anything?

Nyaa's Help page mentions the meaning of four "torrent colours": green, red, orange, grey. But they don't say where these colours appear. If they mean the row colour, then I've never seen an orange or grey one. So I'm very confused. Maybe the Help page is outdated?

OK, not a life-or-death matter, but I've been curious about this for a long time...