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[LowerWolf]

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He's a 40-pound Australian Cattle Dog/Shepherd mix of some sort. He's killed a squirrel on a walk before, so I figured once he saw the cat and barked, the cat would back off. But just as my dog finished marking his spot and turned around, the cat attacked. Never seen that before.

[Blzer]

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So I'm on my home desktop and went incognito on Google Chrome to do what would be considered an "unsafe search" by professional standards, but I unknowingly went incognito from my school Google account login.

Two questions here:

1) I thought incognito was incognito and it didn't matter where you accessed it from, that there was no difference between one and the other, but some are suggesting otherwise. Is this true?

2) Although it is information I'm sure the district can track, is it something that they will also be able to flag down?

EDIT: It also sounds like they can only see what sites you visit but not what search queries you submit, so if I'm on google.com they can see that but maybe not the searches themselves?

[Majingir]

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So I'm on my home desktop and went incognito on Google Chrome to do what would be considered an "unsafe search" by professional standards, but I unknowingly went incognito from my school Google account login.

Two questions here:

1) I thought incognito was incognito and it didn't matter where you accessed it from, that there was no difference between one and the other, but some are suggesting otherwise. Is this true?

2) Although it is information I'm sure the district can track, is it something that they will also be able to flag down?

EDIT: It also sounds like they can only see what sites you visit but not what search queries you submit, so if I'm on google.com they can see that but maybe not the searches themselves?

From what the "warnings" say, seems like incognito doesn't prevent your ISP, Employer(if you're using their wifi or computer) or anyone like that from seeing things. Not sure what exactly can be seen, I'd imagine websites visited would be one, not sure of exact search terms can be seen.

[kehlis]

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There is nothing you can hide from your employer, incognito or not.

[dubcity]

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I feel like that isn't something they would be constantly monitoring, unless there are people whose entire job is to look at everyone's search/web history who works at a school. Or unless they are given a reason to go digging.

[Majingir]

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Not gonna turn this into a political debate, but the age old question gets brought up again. 4 day work weeks?

https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-say-its-time-for-four-day-work-week-2023-2?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_source=reddit.com

I'm sure we've had this very debate multiple times over the years. I'm all for 4 day work weeks, even though we know it won't ever happen for the majority of places.

I wouldn't be opposed to 4 days at 10 hours each either.

[kehlis]

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I feel like that isn't something they would be constantly monitoring, unless there are people whose entire job is to look at everyone's search/web history who works at a school. Or unless they are given a reason to go digging.

You'd be surprised what is automatically monitored (maybe not). I get an email if any of my employees do so much as plug their phone into one of our computers even though they are likely just trying to charge it.

I've seen folks lose their job for some wild thing that you would never think anyone would actively be monitoring them for.

[Blzer]

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There is nothing you can hide from your employer, incognito or not.

It seems like VPN's would do the trick, which I was not on one.

Anyway, I am on my home computer for it but my point was that I didn't think incognito was attached to the profile that you were on.

It wasn't that bad of a thing I was doing (it wasn't naughty or anything), just again by professional standards it definitely wasn't best for that search to go in.

By the way, I have a funny story to mention. I'll just copy-paste the e-mail I had to send to my principal for this one:

Hi Jesse,

Friday morning I covered Robert's 1st period Physics class, and he had a lesson plan that asked to project the iPad and go to a short link to watch a YouTube video. The web address is this: tinyurl.com/crashbarrier

My muscle memory acted up however, and instead of /crashbarrier I typed /crashbandicoot in the address bar. Crash Bandicoot is an old PlayStation video game franchise.

Anyway, for whatever ridiculous reason, apparently that specific URL re-directs to a pornography website called Brazzers, and students picked up on the fact immediately. Thankfully the district's firewall blocked the website, but I wanted to get ahead of this and inform you of this in case this got red-flagged somehow and it got brought to you or Robert's attention.

I didn't inform him of this and I cleared that website hit from the history on his iPad's web browser. We were able to get to the video appropriately afterward and continue the lesson plan.

My sincerest apologies!

In the moment, this was hilarious. The class erupted in laughter, and I was fumbling around trying to figure out how to clear the history on the iPad. E-mailing this out was not quite as fun however, but my principal understood.

EDIT: Looks like I've posted about this before. Obviously I kept the e-mail short about it.

[Jolly Roger]

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Just watched the most asinine political photo op of Ohio's Gov. Dewine and some other gov't people drinking tap water at someone's house near the train derailment to show everyone it's safe. It's actually unintentionally hilarious.

Does anyone actually drink tap water? I use bottled water for brewing my tea and coffee. I use tap water for boiling pasta and brushing my teeth, but that's about it.

[SmashMan]

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Just watched the most asinine political photo op of Ohio's Gov. Dewine and some other gov't people drinking tap water at someone's house near the train derailment to show everyone it's safe. It's actually unintentionally hilarious.

Does anyone actually drink tap water? I use bottled water for brewing my tea and coffee. I use tap water for boiling pasta and brushing my teeth, but that's about it.

I do, yeah. I use it for the things you mentioned, I fill a Cirkul bottle with tap too. I'll drink bottled if I have it though. I'm not really picky about any of it.

When I was growing up my grandparents had a small place away from the city and the town used well water so we drank that. Swimming in the river and get water in your mouth? Oh well. Who knows what was in any of that ****?

[dubcity]

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Just watched the most asinine political photo op of Ohio's Gov. Dewine and some other gov't people drinking tap water at someone's house near the train derailment to show everyone it's safe. It's actually unintentionally hilarious.

Does anyone actually drink tap water? I use bottled water for brewing my tea and coffee. I use tap water for boiling pasta and brushing my teeth, but that's about it.

I'm more wondering about how residents in that area will be doing in 20 years.

But I suspect that photo op had more to do with Facebook comments and combating "disinformation." Proving that everything is fine, in spite of experts who don't work for the government not necessarily agreeing. Idk, I've had my fair share of people I follow forwarding conspiracy stories about it, and every other factory fire in the past few months. It's usually people who have backyard farms and are really into an "organic" lifestyle lol. Experts in the field.

[Caulfield]

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Does anyone actually drink tap water? I use bottled water for brewing my tea and coffee. I use tap water for boiling pasta and brushing my teeth, but that's about it.

I used to drink tap water all the time but over time I started drinking bottled water more and more until I realised I can't and won't drink tap water any longer.
it can be 10 o'clock at night and if I'm out of water and thirsty, I'd rather go through the hassle of getting out of the house, into the car and head a couple miles to the nearest convenience store than drink tap water,
which is a rare occurrence, but I will do it.
and there was a time 20, 25 years ago, I swore I'd never pay for bottled water lol

[slickdtc]

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Grew up on tap water, then we had a Brita water filter, then a fridge filtered water. Started drinking disposable water bottles in my 20s, within the last year or two decided to stop spending money and energy on cases of water and got a Pur water filter. So I use tap water filtered through there now.

I’m with Caulfield that once you stop drinking tap water, it’s hard to do it again. I can taste and sometimes smell a difference. When my one filter broke (the actual container cracked, I don’t know how), I was on tap water for a few months. I was definitely more dehydrated during that time, I’d only drink water if I was reallllly thirsty. Not good.

[Jolly Roger]

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Yeah, I saw where some people say bottled water is naive, that it's just tap water with some filtration, but some of the brands come from springs or some such, not a public water system. And bottled water tastes like nothing, which is what you want. In any event, since I don't have a water filter, bottled water has to be better than my tap.

[Caulfield]

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Yeah, I saw where some people say bottled water is naive, that it's just tap water with some filtration, but some of the brands come from springs or some such, not a public water system. And bottled water tastes like nothing, which is what you want. In any event, since I don't have a water filter, bottled water has to be better than my tap.

I used to believe all bottled water was tap water which was the main reason I refused to pay for it all those many years ago and there probably is a lot of bottled water that is tap water.

but what I drink now has to have that reverse osmosis.
yumm, reverse osmosis taste sooo good!