Looked at the article, and it starts off pretty stupid

While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.

Some people live in areas where the water tastes bad, but seeing the water as “boring” might mean that you’re drinking too much of the other stuff (soft drinks, juice, sugary etc). It’s not that those other things are not hydrating, but they’re unhealthy for other reasons.

The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves

I refuse to normalize a world where people lack access to clean drinking water. 😠

The rest of the article is pretty standard advice. There’s no set amount of water that everyone needs to drink, and your diet/lifestyle/body composition/the weather will all play a role. Going based on thirst is a good indicator, but make sure you actually drink water when you’re thirsty. !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml

But using that to justify unequal access to clean drinking water is a big no.

What is the justification for rolling disclosure? That seems like a very obvious problem for this kind of a report

The above methodological concerns, however, are amplified by a rhetorical concern, obscured by what one might call the CASE report’s “rolling disclosure” — an opaque process by which the report’s findings are slowly and partially revealed over time, rather than all at once. This complicates the ability for readers to scrutinize the report’s raw data, as well as its author’s interpretation of that data.

When the CASE report was first released on Aug. 5, it exclusively highlighted the experience of Zionist Jewish respondents, while making zero reference to the experience of those anti-Zionist students who participated in the survey.

In stark contrast, amongst anti-Zionist Jewish respondents, a whopping 92 per cent said their campuses were safe and inclusive for Jewish students. In the National Post column, the authors try to write off the anti-Zionist data as a “psychological or social” phenomenon rooted in “a desire for social acceptance.”

The reality seems much simpler: Zionist Jewish students conflate hostility towards Israel with hostility towards Jews, whereas anti-Zionist Jewish students do not.

I added a comment with a source that I found that has some of that context

I added a comment with the source confirming that the incident was real, and the person’s name was collected by the police

Which is great, but it’s not always convenient.

For example, this article

how do you handle backups without making it a second job?

Shouldn’t this be automatic once it is set up?

The heat part is harder to deal with. Some computers are more power efficient than others

You can find some resources on this website, organized by location, along with phone numbers for the various shelters and services: https://211ontario.ca/211-topics/homelessness/homeless-shelters/

If you would like to post about this, please post it again in !canada@lemmy.ca or !ontario@lemmy.ca, or a similar community. This one is intended for discussion about the instance, and we will be removing this post as a result

The admins here? Or do you mean reddit

I was referring to here

Possibly Colorado, I found this

https://platform.openmeet.net/groups/conifer-fosstech-and-lug-tkueen

The link isn’t loading for me with the additional trackers. Can you replace it with the cleaned link?

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2026/08/19/roblox-argues-child-waived-rights-by-clicking-box-at-age-8/91290604007/

Please report them, this is a clearcut case that admins can take care of.

We don’t have any magic technology here to block all bots, but we do get rid of them when they are found

It sounds like they are OK with people using the tool, but he wants them to be mindful of how its being used.

But if you’re my colleague and we’re in a Slack discussion and you post a wall of Claude output, then I’m afraid I received a different message than you intended.

The same is true for people’s newsletters and social content. It’s your name on it; are you proud of the prose and weird AI-isms sprinkled throughout it? If so, great. But I can ask Claude directly if I wanted to.

TLDR: Take responsibility for what you send to people, and don’t just ask a chatbot and blindly share the output

Assuming that there isn’t a better extension out there for people to switch to, this move might push some people into quitting Facebook completely.

If you’re using uBlock origin, then you won’t see ads anywhere else. Meanwhile on Facebook, every few posts will be an ad.

🚮

That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

Thanks, I didn’t know about them before today and this is probably why

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

There is no evidence in favor of the effectiveness of these devices. A 2006 review by Jon Wieringa and Iwan Holleman in the journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift summarized a variety of negative and inconclusive scientific measurements, concluding “the use of cannons or explosive rockets is a waste of money and effort”.[7]

There is also reason to doubt the efficacy of hail cannons from a theoretical perspective.[8] For example, thunder is a much more powerful sonic wave, and is usually found in the same storms that generate hail, yet it does not seem to disturb the growth of hailstones. Similarly, hail cannons are placed at ground level, while hail formation occurs at altitudes above 10,000 meters; a device with an effective range of 500 meters, above, would be unlikely to have an impact at an elevation 20 times higher.[9][10][11] Charles Knight, a cloud physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in a July 10, 2008, newspaper article that “I don’t find anyone in the scientific community who would validate hail cannons, but there are believers in all sorts of things. It would be very hard to prove they don’t work, weather being as unpredictable as it is.”

This is in line with how a lot of large open source projects are dealing with it

• don’t force people to use an AI tool
• don’t be a jerk to people who choose to use a tool with AI
• you are responsible for how you interact with the project. If it wouldn’t be ok if done by a human, its not ok if done by a bot

That’s true, we’ll need to refine this one quite a bit. My gut says that anything that has been shared by the party in question, would be ok to share for the purpose that it is being used for.

So if a company shares contact information, or a public figure has contact information shared, then that would be ok to share that.

If a private individual shares a contact method for a specific purpose (ex. organizing an event, or they are selling something that they make), then it would be ok to share that contact method with people who want to use it for that purpose. However, it would not be ok to share that contact method for some other purpose, such as harassment or spam.

Meanwhile, personal information from data mining companies would not fit in to this?

That’s good feedback, we can add a few lines to clarify that you’re allowed to share publicly available information. Maybe anything that is already shared publicly by the organization in question, such as information on the contact page of a company? I see some more feedback around rule 5 in the comments, so I’ll wait a bit before drafting up a new version.

I have made a note of your suggestion, thank you! Also happy cake day :)

That sounds good, I’ve noted that down. Cheers :)