I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
I did find confirmation for the first account, but supposedly they are going to make a new account for the automated stuff. That should make it easier for people to ban or block it
https://lemmy.ca/comment/23580356
I didn’t find anything in the second account though
Can you edit the post to say that you suspect that this is what they are doing instead of stating it as a fact?
I am also suspicious, but looking through the accounts the activity could still be a human using LemmySchedule to schedule the posts ahead of time. There aren’t that many posts each day, and I couldn’t easily map the posts to any existing subreddit or other source. Normally these bot accounts have a lot more posts, and that’s why they get blocked or banned.
It could just be a user that is using potentially harmful strategies to get communities related to their interests off the ground
I agree! If you DM the mods or make a meta post, I feel like they’d happily add a section. Sometimes they aren’t aware of the other communities
If anyone is interested in learning more about this, see this video by Veritasium
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ
Note that there are also unfounded conspiracy theories around Glyphosphate, so keep an eye out for those when looking around
Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment formally accused the Israeli military of “an act of ecocide” in April 2026, reporting $25 billion in damages, including the destruction of thousands of hectares of forest and extreme soil contamination that “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of the Lebanese south.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicidal_warfare
Making it so that an entire region can no longer plant local crops, and causing sudden large scale changes to local biodiversity, is bad.
On top of that:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363
Decades-old study on common weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it
The 25-year-old study said the main ingredient in Roundup — the herbicide glyphosate — is safe for humans.
“It’s really a foundational paper against which a lot of regulatory agencies made decisions about whether or not glyphosate was safe.”
What would be the use case for cyborg insects, other than war and espionage? Are they smart enough for search and rescue?
The fundamental operational range of cyborg insects, which are hybrid robots that combine a living insect with an electronic controller, is inherently restricted to the host’s natural environment. To extend their operational range, we developed a wearable diving suit for terrestrial insects. The suit integrates a miniaturised oxygen generation module with a flexible waterproof shell, enabling continuous oxygen supply and isolation from surrounding water. By fitting a cockroach, which is a terrestrial species, into this diving suit, we allowed it to survive and operate in oxygen-deprived environments such as underwater, transforming it into an amphibious cyborg robot capable of operation across land and water. The suit sustained respiration and locomotion for up to 3 h underwater, establishing amphibious cyborg insects that combine biological adaptability with engineered protection for prolonged exploration in extreme, confined environments.
I may be wrong, but I think holding a slightly cross legged position does still require some muscle contraction, and it may cause some compression over having your legs relaxed and spread apart. Also, if you’re lying on your back, then there might be a slight pressure difference from having one leg higher than the rest of your body.
The way you’re describing it, all of these factors will only change the pressure very slightly.
It could also be that you were more relaxed during the second reading, and so that time was the most important contributor. For example, white coat hypertension
Seems like the solution is: don’t do exams this way
This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools). “It’s a very nice kind of exam, because as you’re giving students practically unlimited time to complete it, it lets you make it harder than normal, to see how far they can go.” In this case, Serrano changed some of the model assumptions they had seen in class, and asked students to demonstrate whether certain statements were true or false under the new assumptions.
I use a browser extension that sends me to a reddit frontend on the off chance I come across a post while searching. It works pretty well
Libredirect + the fastest instance
From the admin side, I do understand what they are saying but I think there’s a better solution to it. We run the old frontend on our instance, and it gets hammered with bots and scrapers. So if we assume that old.reddit works the same way, then it would be attractive to scrapers. But instead of locking it down, I think they could set up something like Anubis or put it behind some other anti-bot measure.
That’s what I was thinking, especially with the headline
But in this case it looks to be an actual data breach, where the images are the less interesting parts of the leak
https://www.androidauthority.com/iphone-18-pro-color-dynamic-island-leak-3682857/
While previous iPhones have also had many details leaked in the run-up to launch, usually in the form of spec leaks, CAD files, and dummy units, this iPhone 18 Pro leak is the biggest in recent Apple history as these detailed schematics, blueprints, and pre-release test videos are ordinarily not available (even after launch!). We expect more information on the iPhone 18 Pro and other upcoming Apple products to flow through as the leak by cyber group World Leaks reportedly comprises over 200,000 files totalling over 630GB.
From the admin side, we see the following
The recent “DM me” spammers and the accounts that post on !selfhosted@lemmy.world are a good example of the second category.
It’s pretty rare for a bot to be active for much longer than that. Usually some eagle eyed user will spot it and report it up the chain.
Welcome!
We have some guides / infographics for new users, which you might find helpful. These two pages in particular:
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview
An instance is the site where you make an account. If we extend the analogy to email, then gmail.com is one instance while hotmail.com is another instance. If you make an account on Gmail, you can’t use that login on Hotmail but you can still see content from people on Hotmail.
Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are all software. It’s hard to extend this analogy out, but imagine if Google released the code for Gmail freely so that anyone could easily set up an email website that had the same appearance and functionality as Gmail. That is what is happening here.
So in the same way, lemmy.ca, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and many other Fediverse instances are running the “Lemmy” software and that’s why they look and feel very similar. Where they differ comes down to the people running a particular instance, since they will have different rules for what you can do. You can find that information in the sidebar.
Now all of the Fediverse platforms use a common and agreed upon language to talk to each other. Because Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin software all use this language and follow a similar format, you can easily share content between all of them. That is what the second guide page talks about. They all have communities, posts, and comments, and work in a similar way.
Usually people make one account on a forum/threaded instance (Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin), and one account on a microblogging instance (Mastodon). This is because the format of microblogging (ex. Twitter) is pretty different from that of forums (ex. Reddit), although it is technically possible to cross post in between them.
IMO demonitizing the AI music is the important part. It lets them skip the debate around the AI while removing the incentive for the slop uploads
They didn’t specifically say if they will let users have a toggle to hide it all, that’s one of my concerns with this
Could this be solved by having two renderers, and only using the proprietary Adobe one needed?
So what do you do when the pedantic gold standard of epubcheck says your book is fine, when it works without issue on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Thorium and everywhere else and yet Kobo says it’s “corrupted”?
I dug into this matter and found out that Kobo uses RMSDK, “Reader Mobile Software Development Kit”, Adobe’s proprietary ebook rendering engine.
Once the stylesheet was identified as the source of my woes, I could finally drill down to find which specific line was causing the issue. After creating a dozen more variations with different subsets of my stylesheet I eventually identified the culprit. It was this line:
.copyright img { max-width: min(150px, 30vw); }Once I changed it to the more old fashioned max-width: 150px; ADE opened it just fine.
But what is the problem here? The above code is perfectly valid CSS level 4, it’s just not supported by RMSDK, because its CSS parser is frozen in approximately 2013 — no flexbox, no grid, no math functions, no custom properties. Just good old float, bad font handling, and silent crashes when it sees anything it doesn’t recognize.
It’s the year 2026. Thanks to the horrendous RMSDK which Kobo decided to use as their backbone for all book rendering (probably for DRM reasons), a single line of perfectly valid CSS turns a perfectly valid EPUB file into a “corrupted file” on Kobo and just drops the whole book. No clear error message, no fallback. Just a massive fail.
Grazing is like snacking throughout the day or many smaller meals
Intermittent fasting is better explained here, but it comes down to “fasting for part(s)” of the day
In the workplace, there are still a lot of domain specific programs that don’t have Linux support. Companies don’t have much of an incentive to port that stuff over. As for the people who just need a web browser, they probably would use Linux just fine if they could buy a computer at BestBuy that comes with Linux preinstalled
Compare that to LLM programs, where it’s a matter of “download this app instead of that one, because this one is free and that one costs $25 a month”
Having an option vs not having an option
Also Linux and Windows are pretty different in use cases and capabilities. Meanwhile, local AI models have a very similar user experience. If hardware was cheaper and people could run better LLMs locally, they wouldn’t pay monthly for it.
If only we could target them better. As it is, we kill off lots of passive and allied bacteria when attacking the harmful ones.
I left another comment explaining it better, but in short
I would totally use this one if it was available
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25259-emoji-squinting-face.pdf