Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software (alinpanaitiu.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15205399...
This Week in Self-Hosted (3 May 2024) (selfh.st)
Not my newsletter, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at @selfhst
The Duration Time on this Cookie... (slrpnk.net)
Remember to use ad blockers and DNS filters ladies and gentlemen!...
‘Everything’s just … on hold’: the Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Amsterdammers find themselves at the nadir of a Europe-wide housing shortage. But some bold initiatives offer hope...
Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia building, prosecutors say (apnews.com)
A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Thursday....
Dillo 3.1.0 finally released after 9 years! (dillo-browser.github.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15269587...
Falklands dispute may last decades - Argentina president (www.bbc.com)
Argentina’s president Javier Milei says he accepts the Falkland Islands are currently “in the hands of the UK"....
Aldi Just Announced a Major Change to Grocery Prices, Lowering Prices (finance.yahoo.com)
Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Intel continues search for source of Core i9 chip crashes — issues statement about recommended BIOS settings to board partners (www.tomshardware.com)
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models - Press release - Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.co)
Cool now the bot can just auto close new topics as redundant and the circle is complete.
Game difficulty (imgchest.com)
Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly (www.newsweek.com)
Report finds Nestlé adds sugars to baby food in low-income countries (www.nbcnews.com)
Experts say there can be long-term health consequences for babies and infants who consume too much sugar at a young age....
Here’s how much the average American has in their retirement savings by age [Ashleigh Jackson | 05/05/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election (pluralistic.net)
Australia denounces China over 'unsafe' aerial confrontation (www.reuters.com)
Israel orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment (apnews.com)
Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance....
Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link (libreddit.bus-hit.me)
Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown (store.steampowered.com)
Holy shit, I can’t even imagine the amount of mods that will get erased. There were so many fan-mods, maps, minigames, models… Fucking Nintendo…
Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN (www.ign.com)
One big project or multiple smallers ones? What do you think?
A subset of Alzheimer's cases may be caused by two copies of a single gene, new research shows (apnews.com)
‘They’re sending a message’: harsh police tactics questioned amid US campus protest crackdowns (www.theguardian.com)
There have been 970 US student protests related to the Israel-Gaza conflict between 7 October and 26 April, the vast majority of them peaceful, according to the latest available statistics from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled), which tracks political violence and political demonstrations across the US...
Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too (www.nytimes.com)
Foundations of Amateur Radio: A place for everything and everything in its place.. (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
Some life lessons require additional reinforcement from time to time. This week I was strongly encouraged to remember a lesson that can be summarised as: “A place for everything and everything in its place.” It was first uttered like that to me a quarter of a century ago by a client who used it frequently around their staff....