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

Where would Commonwealth countries fit into this, would Canada, Australia and New Zealand also join in?

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

On top of that, doctors will be under increased strain from having to write out the sick notes

I like what our province has done (BC, Canada)

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025LBR0041-001106

Under the new employment standards regulations, employers cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year.

“When you’re sick with the flu, or your child comes down with a cold, the last thing you should have to do is go to your doctor or a medical clinic to get a piece of paper saying you’re sick,” said Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Labour. “Unnecessary medical appointments take time away from patients who need to see their doctors and nurses, don’t help people get better any faster and risk further spread of illness.”

These changes are based on input from health-care providers, who pointed to scientific evidence that shows most minor illnesses for adults, such as a cold and influenza, have symptoms that typically resolve within five days.

Some universities are also switching the format of in person assessments to account for this. For example, adding an extra few quizzes and taking the best X out of Y quizzes so that students can miss a certain number of them with no documentation

From the article, it seems like this isn’t popular in the rest of the country either

Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that enforces a version of Islamic law. The country’s secular central government granted the province the right to implement religious law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist war.

Amnesty International Indonesia said the public caning in Aceh was a form of human rights violation that was cruel, inhumane and degrading to human dignity, carried out despite the fact Indonesia had ratified a convention mandating the abolition of inhumane punishments.

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.

Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.

I’d like to add on this bit that people often miss:

• In Canada, the healthcare system’s costs include salaries for healthcare workers, supplies, training, and other necessary costs
• In the US, the healthcare system’s costs include all of the above, in addition to all of the parisitic layers. Just the insurance layer includes insurance shareholders, insurance executives, insurance overhead (marketing, admin, aggressive claims denial), lobbying, etc. Then there are similar costs from each of the private corporations that own the hospitals, the clinics, the ambulance services etc.

That is why the American system is much more expensive and much less efficient with the money. Since Canada’s system is still partially private and it never got fully actualized to the original vision (in part because of lobbying from the US), we have some of those inefficiencies too.

Now the thing is, a large segment of the working US population would not be able to afford healthcare because of these parasitic layers. The US government needs to enter this system to keep it afloat, but they have to pay the much higher costs.

So for an American, not only do their taxes ALSO go towards healthcare, but the US spends far more per capita on it. It changes year to year, but double the spending is what I’ve usually heard.

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

Cut out the parasitic layers. The savvy businessmen among them can find some other industry to make a profit from.

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.

Should have called it the “polluter tax and rebate”

Or even “carbon tax and cash back” system

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.

You would think that an organization like this would have a better understanding than the average person

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

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)[1] and renamed on July 21, 2003. It is based in Washington, D.C.[2][3] Most of the top publishers in the video game industry (or their American subsidiaries) are members of the ESA.

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

Sweet, thanks for bringing it up to them. Looking forward to being able to follow some of the boards 😊

Out of the different mainstream sports, soccer/football is one that’s pretty popular in the global south. There are lots of teams coming from Africa and South America, and it’s pretty popular in South Asia too

FIFA corruption aside anyway

It must be an amazing experience for the kids playing in youth soccer teams here

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.

What kind of info?

If you are scraping the project sites and having an LLM put together guides, they will likely go out of date over time and likely contain vital errors already. It would be much better if you simply direct users to where they can read the current up to date information.

How would this be better or more helpful than selfh.st? It is more reputable and more likely to stick around