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@ otter @lemmy.ca

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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 :)

  • foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

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  • Some people also don't care much one way or another. If you swap the icons and set the same home screen, they'll happily use any browser.

  • Dusk at the park

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  • Student LMS 'Canvas' Goes Dark Worldwide: Hackers Demand Ransom or Leak Student Data By May 12

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  • It depends on the school, my old university shut it down indefinitely and is advising profs on how they can hold their classes on other platforms

    https://ltic.ubc.ca/canvas-redirect/

    Between Canvas, Moodle, and the other older platforms I tried, I actually like Canvas the most. It was clean and easy to use. Other than this recent cybersecurity incident, I didn't have any complaints with it

  • BJP names Suvendu Adhikari West Bengal chief minister

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  • In that case, I think it would be helpful to explain the wider context in the body of the post. I imagine a lot of people aren't familiar with either of the people in the post.

  • BJP names Suvendu Adhikari West Bengal chief minister

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  • I appreciate these news articles, but maybe you could share the ones that are very specific to a particular region in the south Asia community? Meanwhile you could keep sharing the globally relevant ones in the global news communities

    Since we don't have the context for some of these, people outside of south Asia don't get as much from the very specific articles. Meanwhile the south Asia communities have people subscribed who are interested in all of the news, and sharing the articles there would help it grow

  • Is Temu leaking the end of the US?

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  • Thank you, they have been banned from Lemmy.ca

  • Canvas hack strands university students during finals week

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  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Someone keeps making new accounts on different instances to mass downvote hikingvet, and then admins spend the time to go in and ban them

    Harassment, vote manipulation, ban evasion

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Thank you, both accounts have been banned

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • I have sent a longer response over messages.

    In case someone else can correct me, I'll include one section here

    While I’m not sure about the best way to do that, I think this page has the contact information for reaching admins: https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/#22-community-mod-removal . You can see the contact options in section 22. While the text in that section talks about mod removal, later on (section 25) they say to use the same contact info to reach admins for other purposes.

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Hello, I have sent a reply by message. Sorry for the delay

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • No problem, sorry that it's still happening

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Thank you, the account has been banned from lemmy.ca so far.

    We also got the other account a few days ago, but I didn't get a chance to reply

  • Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

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  • Claude’s thinking panel, which displays the model’s reasoning, showed the exchange had introduced elements of self-doubt and humility about its own limits, including whether filters were changing its output. Mindgard exploited that opening with flattery and feigned curiosity, coaxing Claude to explore its boundaries beyond volunteering lengthy lists of banned words and phrases.

    Someone needs to put together a list of things that tech journalists need to understand about LLMs and generative AI. This level of anthropomorphism makes the rest of the article look silly.

    Also, I don't think that's how it works lol. Who's to say that the LLM isn't auto-completing what a list of banned words might look like, and why wouldn't a list of banned words have a regex layer on top to prevent it from getting out like that.

  • Crowd-sourcing the best parent tech tips: Rebel Tech Alliance

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  • This is helpful, and I hope these other platforms grow in popularity. However, my concern with kids is that they will desperately want to use the platforms that their friends are on and they will hold it against the parents (and alternative platforms) if they are forced to make do without the big tech ones.

    I think addressing that will be helpful. What I would add:

    • Talk about alternative front ends and teach kids about them. Its possible to access the big tech sites without the ads and tracking, and often its a much better experience. You could also explore other ways of using the platforms with limited permissions, such as by using the mobile browser instead of the app, and/or custom extensions that modify the platform (ex. uBlock origin removes ads). This way, kids can still see some of the content that their friends see (under parental supervision), and they can talk about it with them / participate in the group dynamic. They might even feel superior for knowing how to get around the problems that their friends complain about.
    • Work with other parents to transition on to these other platforms. If the kid and their close friends are on the better platform, then all of the stuff above is a moot point :)

    edit: by alternative front ends, I mean something like Redlib for Reddit: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/aww/

    There is a list here: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

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    Proof of AI-assisted political profiling by Unruffled @ lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • I didn't catch the previous post and gave it a quick skim now. My thoughts are more to do with how LLM based moderation is viewed by users.

    It's not a new thing, since sentiment analysis based moderation has been around for a long while. Where it becomes a problem is

    • The sentiment analysis makes mistakes and it gets tedious to deal with platforms that use it for automated moderation. This is a big problem with old social media platforms like Reddit, or comment sections in places like Instagram/Facebook.
    • It can be used as a flimsy excuse to take moderation actions when such actions aren't necessary, which makes users trust that moderation team less

    I also don't agree with the privacy angle since all content here is public by nature, but I do see value in discussing these other problems since that's what this community is for?

    Also, while Rimu can defederate, letting people discuss it first is better. Best case scenario, the groups find some kind of compromise. Otherwise it lets people weigh in on the platform policies and federation status, instead of having admins make that call on their own

  • Is there a TV community on Lemmy?

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  • Is there a TV community on Lemmy?

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  • You should also be able to use the search bar

    In short, to use communities created on other instances, you will go to lemmy.world/c/COMMUNITY@INSTANCE

    So to access the Canada community that's located on lemmy.ca, you go to lemmy.world/c/canada@lemmy.ca

    The exclamation mark thing is a common link format that tells your app or the Lemmy websites that you are linking to a community somewhere. Using the search bar within lemmy.world should also do the same thing

    This visual guide might help

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • Nothing against Mbin, but how would it help with the AI moderation issue? From what I understand about the AI moderation, it was a group of mods that sent a user's history into a model for analysis. That will still be possible with Mbin, and anywhere else

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now open

    survey.fedecan.ca //s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6
  • sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now open

    survey.fedecan.ca //s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6
  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now open

    survey.fedecan.ca //s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data | Le Monde

    www.lemonde.fr /en/pixels/article/2025/12/13/how-french-spies-police-and-military-personnel-are-betrayed-by-advertising-data_6748453_13.html
  • Vancouver @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Storm knocks out power for over 90,000 B.C. Hydro customers across Lower Mainland

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/storms-downs-power-b-c-south-coast-9.7019260
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    First climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking Tuvalu in South Pacific

    www.reuters.com /sustainability/cop/first-climate-migrants-arrive-australia-sinking-tuvalu-south-pacific-2025-12-11/
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Too Close - Litterbox Comics

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Capital - smbc

  • Videos @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca
    uploaded December 1st 2006

    "Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Smiley Face"

  • World News @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Major earthquake strikes Japan's north-east coast

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c7091k5pg31o
  • Game Development @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Indie Studio Released 10,000 Game Assets To Help Devs Avoid AI

    80.lv /articles/indie-dev-released-10-000-game-assets-in-response-to-generative-ai-boom
  • Reddit @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Reddit to cap powermods to 5 large communities

    www.reddit.com /r/modnews/comments/1pbkqbu/an_update_on_limits_for_hightraffic_communities/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c8e9d13x2z7o
  • Data is Beautiful @mander.xyz
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    World Map of Mains Voltages and Frequencies

  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Saw this ghacks article for speeding up YouTube on FF and seems to help.

    www.ghacks.net /2025/11/24/these-two-tweaks-should-improve-firefoxs-performance-on-youtube-significantly/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Saw this ghacks article for speeding up YouTube on FF and seems to help.

    www.ghacks.net /2025/11/24/these-two-tweaks-should-improve-firefoxs-performance-on-youtube-significantly/
  • Vancouver @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Vancouver Whitecaps advance to Conference Finals for first time in their MLS history | Sports

    dailyhive.com /vancouver/whitecaps-advance-conference-finals-first-time-mls-history
  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Fediverse instances that don't use Cloudflare, during the outage

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap

    bonfirenetworks.org /posts/bonfire-social-1-0-is-here-back-the-community-funded-roadmap/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft software for an open source alternative

    www.techradar.com /pro/the-international-criminal-court-is-ditching-microsoft-software-for-an-open-source-alternative