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The article is short so I recommend reading it. I started adding the key points below, but ended up including almost the entire article:

Number 16 (c. 1974 – 2016), also known as #16, was a wild female trapdoor spider (Gaius villosus, family Idiopidae) that lived in North Bungulla Reserve near Tammin, Western Australia. She lived an estimated 43 years and became the longest-lived spider on record, beating a 28-year-old tarantula who previously held the title. When Number 16 finally died in 2016, it was not of old age but from a parasitic wasp sting.

On March 1974, Australian arachnologist Barbara York Main began a long-term study of spider families. [...] Main returned to the site annually, sometimes more frequently, for more than four decades.

Like other trapdoor spiders, Number 16 spent her entire life in the same burrow, subsisting off the edible insects that walked on her burrow's trapdoor-like silk roof.

For her 40th birthday, research assistant Leanda Mason wanted to give the spider a mealworm, but Main denied the request since it would interfere with the study

Because of Number 16, Main's project took far longer than she had expected. She continued to work into her late 80s, but she "began to look forward to the project's end," The Washington Post reported. Finally, when Main's own health declined before the spider's, she passed the project on to Leanda Mason.

On 31 October 2016, researcher Leanda Mason discovered Number 16's burrow in disrepair. The spider was gone. Evidence suggested she was killed by a parasitic spider wasp

“She was cut down in her prime [...] It took a while to sink in, to be honest," said Mason

After retiring, Barbara York Main moved to a care facility for Alzheimer's. Leanda Mason, who kept in contact with her mentor, said in 2018 that Barbara "remembers No. 16" but "forgets that she’s died."

This is a problem with regular Lemmy web as well. When you select the text and press the button, it inserts the > symbol only once instead of at the start of every ~~line~~ paragraph.

Take this sample text (from here)

Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages; in addition, many applications, platforms and frameworks support Markdown. For example, Markdown plugins exist for every major blogging platform.

While Markdown is a minimal markup language and is read and edited with a normal text editor, there are specially designed editors that preview the files with styles, which are available for all major platforms. 

When I use the quote button:

Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages; in addition, many applications, platforms and frameworks support Markdown. For example, Markdown plugins exist for every major blogging platform.

While Markdown is a minimal markup language and is read and edited with a normal text editor, there are specially designed editors that preview the files with styles, which are available for all major platforms.

Expected formatting:

Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages; in addition, many applications, platforms and frameworks support Markdown. For example, Markdown plugins exist for every major blogging platform.

While Markdown is a minimal markup language and is read and edited with a normal text editor, there are specially designed editors that preview the files with styles, which are available for all major platforms.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15628341

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The channel has excellent visuals for the different steps

The channel has excellent visuals for the different steps

The linked article is the intro message from her. I copied a part of it here:

Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director

Delight -- absolute delight -- is what I felt when my parents brought home a Compaq Deskpro 386 for us to play with. It was love at first sight, thanks to games like Reader Rabbit, but I fell especially hard once we had a machine connected to the Internet. The unparalleled joy that comes from making things with and for other people was intoxicating. I can’t tell you how many hours were spent building Geocities websites for friends, poring over message boards, writing X-Files fan fiction, exchanging inside jokes and song lyrics on AIM and ICQ chats with friends and far-flung cousins across the world.

Actually, I could tell you. In detail. But it would be embarrassing.

Years later I would learn that the ability to share, connect, and create is rooted in how the Internet works differently than the media preceding it. The Internet speaks standards and protocols. It links instead of copying. Its nature is open. You don’t need permission to make something on the Internet. That freedom holds enormous potential: At its best, it helps us explore history we didn’t know, build movements to better the future, or make a meme to brighten someone’s day. At its best, the Internet lets us see each other.

That magic -- this power -- is revolutionary. Protecting it, celebrating it, and expanding it is why I’m so excited to join the Mozilla Foundation as its executive director.

I started my career as a media lawyer to protect those who made things that helped us see one another, and the truth about our shared world. Almost fifteen years ago, I co-founded and built a media law clinic to train others to do the same. After a stint at a law firm, I joined BuzzFeed as its first newsroom lawyer, which felt sort of like being a lawyer for the silliest and most serious parts of the internet all at the same time. In other words, I was a lawyer for the Internet at its best.

I am not naive about the Internet at its worst. From the Edward Snowden disclosures to a quick trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, much of my career has confronted issues of surveillance -- including of my own religious community. I watched as consumers became more concerned about surveillance and other harms online, and so we built an accountability journalism outlet, The Markup, to serve those needs. The Markup’s mission is to help people challenge technology to serve the public good, which intentionally centers human agency. So we didn’t just write articles: Our team imagined and made things people used to make informed choices. Blacklight, for example, empowers people to use the Web how they want, by helping them see the otherwise invisible set of tracking tools, watching them as they browse.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21154989

I didn't include the times below in case details change, so use the link for the info

Join us rain or shine at Oak Meadows Park, located at Oak Street and West 37th Avenue, for a free, family-friendly viewing experience. Bring your blankets or chairs, pack some snacks, water, and non-alcoholic beverages, and enjoy the game on our big screen. Let’s unite and cheer on our team!

Prefer to stay indoors? Select community centres will also broadcast the games in their lobby areas during regular hours of operations, offering another great, free, and family-friendly option to experience the playoff excitement with your neighbors:

• Hillcrest Community Centre
• Roundhouse Community Centre
• Killarney Community Centre
• Kitsilano Community Centre
• False Creek Community Centre
• Creekside Community Centre
• Kerrisdale Community Centre

We're adding more locations for game broadcasts. Check our website for additional details and updates on where you can catch the action.

I didn't include the times below in case details change, so use the link for the info

Join us rain or shine at Oak Meadows Park, located at Oak Street and West 37th Avenue, for a free, family-friendly viewing experience. Bring your blankets or chairs, pack some snacks, water, and non-alcoholic beverages, and enjoy the game on our big screen. Let’s unite and cheer on our team!

Prefer to stay indoors? Select community centres will also broadcast the games in their lobby areas during regular hours of operations, offering another great, free, and family-friendly option to experience the playoff excitement with your neighbors:

• Hillcrest Community Centre
• Roundhouse Community Centre
• Killarney Community Centre
• Kitsilano Community Centre
• False Creek Community Centre
• Creekside Community Centre
• Kerrisdale Community Centre

We're adding more locations for game broadcasts. Check our website for additional details and updates on where you can catch the action.