Compiling some links in a thread in [email protected]. I’ve copied the current version below, but please see the linked thread for the most up to date version: https://lemmy.ca/post/42967562

Information

WARNING: There are graphic videos of the event and aftermath. Keep that in mind when going through any social media posts. The news articles are generally ‘safe’ to read.

Social media threads:

• [email protected]: https://lemmy.ca/post/42965727

• r/Vancouver: https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1k8v49i/

• https://x.com/VancouverPD/status/1916348189449634129

News Articles:

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vehicle-hits-crowd-filipino-festival-lapu-lapu-day-block-party-1.7519778
• https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/04/26/major-police-incident-vancouver-lapu-lapu-festival/
• https://theprovince.com/news/police-incident-at-lapu-lapu-day-in-vancouver/wcm/8078cf55-f577-49a1-a041-6bdd6d7c2bef
• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-vancouver-festival-driver-incident-deaths-injuries-updates-lapu-lapu/
• https://vancouversun.com/news/police-incident-at-lapu-lapu-day-in-vancouver

Let me know if any information belongs in this thread and I’ll edit it in.

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Support Resources:

Local Resources

Vancouver Police Victim Services: As per their website - Victim Services staff members are not police officers; they are civilian employees of the VPD with specialized training in emotional support, crisis intervention, and communication skills, and with education in areas such as psychology, social work or other related disciplines.

Staff are available to provide free and confidential support to victims, witnesses, and family members affected by crime and trauma.

If you have been affected by crime or trauma, contact the VPD Victim Services Unit at 604-717-2737.

Vancouver Coastal Regional Distress Line: 604-872-3311

BC Mental Health & Crisis Response (no area code needed): 310-6789

Suicide Crisis Helplines: Text or call 9-8-8 from anywhere in Canada or call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) in BC, both available 24/7.

Learn about what resources are available in your community, including mental health supports. Available 24/7 and Canada wide: Call 211 or visit 211.ca

Crisis Centre: https://www.crisiscentre.bc.ca/

Other Resources

A few people have recommended doing a visuospatial activity, such as playing tetris, to help reduce trauma related intrusive memories from the incident

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms

A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that develop in some people after suffering a traumatic event.

Some tetris links:

• https://tetr.io/
• https://tetris.com/

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What can you do

I haven’t seen an official call for donations yet, but I’ve compiled some comments / links.

Blood donation eligibility information: https://www.blood.ca/en/blood/am-i-eligible-donate-blood

What types might be in need:

Filipinos blood type distribution is 86% O-positive, and 8% A-positive, so if you are type O and A consider donating. Oak street location is open pretty much every day

Looks cool, you should definitely build the community the way you want to!

It’s sometimes easier to build up an existing community that already has a number of subscribers but could use more love and attention. Of course you can also cross post to and from that other community if you’d prefer to grow a new one.

In this case, I’m thinking of [email protected]. If you wanted to, you could reach out and offer to help moderate

I always preferred PrivacyGuides. Looking forward to the activitypub integration with their other community

Solid food photography as well!

Onion rings maybe?

Depending on what restrictions you have, you could try VSCode? That’s what students were told to do at my university for remote C / C++ development off the school’s servers

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

I’m not familiar with the others, but for vscode

• click the symbol that looks like >< in the bottom left
• potentially install the remote SSH add-on if it asks for it
• log in
• open the left sidebar and tell it to open the folder you are developing in

I’m more of an outsider for this community / hobby, but I thought the post was neat :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System

It’s a pretty old internet nonprofit, and I don’t think they’re involved in this community but it’s the moderator?

I saw a previous post about this community and I still don’t know what’s going on

I’ll edit the context into the title so it’s not clickbait, I thought it was worth sharing a younger person’s perspective is all 😄

Watching it now, but this is an update to the previous well known video from 2014

The message:

"I try to make my merge commit messages be somewhat “cohesive”, and so I often edit the pull request language to match a more standard layout and language. It’s not a big deal, and often it’s literally just about whitespace so that we don’t have fifteen different indentation models and bullet syntaxes. I generally do it as I read through the text anyway, so it’s not like it makes extra work for me.

But what does make extra work is when some maintainers use passive voice, and then I try to actively rewrite the explanation (or, admittedly, sometimes I just decide I don’t care quite enough about trying to make the messages sound the same).

So I would ask maintainers to please use active voice, and preferably just imperative."

Giving an example of a bad commit message, Torvalds provided this example: “In this pull request, the Xyzzy driver error handling was fixed to avoid a NULL pointer dereference.” He believes this should have been written as follows: “This fixes a NULL pointer dereference in …”

Oops, it’s been a long day lol

Thank you, fixed!

146 likes / 6,100+ dislikes

I thought the dislike button was hidden for most people, which makes it more impressive

16 years ago

Wow

why do we need this fancy ‘C’ language, when we could just write everything in assembly?

No, only pure machine code. Anything else is rude. If we’re going to get help from computers, then the least we can do is speak their language

😐

There’s also this!

[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] can probably explain more

I don’t have anything to add because that sums up my thoughts as well

I might skip the first episode on future rewatches, but the other two were fun

I’m not sure where you are in the world, but you could look into maker spaces, local universities/colleges, or any local hobby clubs.

Each of them might have programs to let you borrow tools, or bring something in to work on. The least they might know about what is available

A family pet in Oklahoma has had a dog of a day when playtime sparked an emergency response. A pet monitoring camera captured the pup chewing on a power bank before a bright flash and a fire ignited. The two dogs and the cat inside the home managed to get out safely via the perfect escape hatch.

I just shared that article yesterday from iFixit about how to keep batteries from bloating during storage. An additional point might be to keep it away from creatures that might chew on them.