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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)

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Over the last 2 weeks, not a single business day has gone by where I didn’t get an email from several different companies notifying me of updates to their terms and conditions. What do they all have in common?...

Gaza toll could exceed 186,000, Lancet study says (www.aljazeera.com)

www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/…/fulltext

Open Library launches feature to follow other users! (blog.openlibrary.org)

Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked (arstechnica.com)

I'm an adult, I do whatever the fuck I want (lemmy.world)

Rising shipping costs hit global trade hard | DW (www.dw.com)

total destruction from mountain to shore (lemmy.world)

TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields. (en.wikipedia.org)

The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts … men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and...

F-117 🥵 (i.imgur.com)

What YouTube channels discuss Atari video games?

Besides the official Atari channel, that is.

South Korean politician links rising male suicides to women (www.bbc.com)

A politician in South Korea is being criticised for making dangerous and unsubstantiated comments after linking a rise in male suicides to the increasingly “dominant” role of women in society....

The Sahel Stands Up and the World Must Pay Attention (peoplesdispatch.org)

This past weekend the heads of state from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger met in the first summit of the Alliance of Sahel States.

Site: "I don't feel so good...." (sh.itjust.works)

Urban dictionary is more useful than the dictionary

Biden sends defiant letter to Democrats says time to end questions, come together (abcnews.go.com)

Catepillar defense mechanism (i.imgur.com)

No caterpillers were harmed making this video. I’m assuming this is used as a scare tactic when they are threatened. Ice never seen this before and thought it was interesting.

TSA sets new single-day record with more than 3 million travelers at airport security (abcnews.go.com)

The previous 2.99M record was set just last month....

[Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (www.npr.org)

It’s so easy to sanitize tech stories about murder weapons. Just say “Ukraine” in the title!

Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box (lemmy.world)

Context for newbies: Linux refers to network adapters (wifi cards, ethernet cards, etc.) by so called “interfaces”. For the longest time, the interface names were assigned based on the type of device and the order in which the system discovered it. So, eth0, eth1, wlan0, and wwan0 are all possible interface names. This,...