Our university got hit too, but at least our finals season ended a few weeks ago. Right now it’s affecting the summer classes which start next week

As well as the personal data of students, faculty, etc from the past however many years…

See here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Canvas_security_incident

Student newspaper: https://ubyssey.ca/news/live-updates-canvas-down-after-cyberattack/

In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers found that a simple expansion of existing neural pathways allowed these mice to broaden their vocal repertoire — the same mutation believed to have paved the way for the development of human language

I think they meant that its the same type of mutation both times. Language and neurobiology are complicated fields so similarities help to figure out causation

The study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10458-y

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

Thank you, both accounts have been banned

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.

Also lightning, and muddy grounds

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

No problem, sorry that it’s still happening

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

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.

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

For those who want to check

The recall concerns two models of the Thermos Stainless King food jar (numbers SK3000 and SK30020) and one model of the Sportsman food and beverage bottle (SK3010). Their model numbers can be viewed on the bottom of the containers, and all Thermos products have the trademark on their side.

About 5.8 million food jars and 2.5 million bottles are being recalled, which were sold nationwide between 2008 and 2024. The products were sold at Target and Walmart stores, among other places, as well as online through Amazon and the official Thermos website.

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

There’s a small learning process, but ultimately it isn’t that different. I think part of the difficulty is that the lack of a nice onboarding, which is what these guide pages are intended for

I’d also recommend these pages

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/mobile-apps

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

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

Thankfully the places with newer stock had the RRW reverse re-wind discs, so it was easy enough to click it forward one step once you got to the end of a disc

The link in the bio has a list of accounts so that people who don’t want to see the posts can block them

OpenAI used to be a public benefit company. Or it called itself one anyway

https://qz.com/openai-abandons-the-pretense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_OpenAI

There are healthcare systems in the world other than the one in the usa