Active - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Biden Has Democrats So Worried, He’s Bringing Them to Literal Tears (newrepublic.com)

Monitoring Borg backups

I’m curious what people are using to monitor their backups? I have Borg running on a cronjob, but checking logs periodically is getting tedious, so I’d like to automate that if possible

Missouri man accused of imprisoning and torturing a woman for weeks indicted for murder (apnews.com)

A Missouri man accused of keeping a woman hidden in his basement while repeatedly sexually assaulting her was indicted Tuesday for allegedly murdering another woman....

The Sahel stands up and the world must pay attention. This past weekend the heads of state from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger met in the first summit of the Alliance of Sahel States. (peoplesdispatch.org)

27 years later, the spirit of Lego Island lives on in a surprising place (www.eurogamer.net)

Long Dark dev criticises Manor Lords for lack of updates, Hooded Horse CEO replies that not every game needs to be "some live-service boom or bust" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Interesting thoughts about how to define success for video games in today’s market, particularly for those using early access. Lots of respect for Hooded Horse’s CEO, Tim Bender, he says all the right things and seems genuine....

The planet’s vision is getting worse: 50% of the population will have myopia by 2050 (english.elpais.com)

Brett Favre is asking an appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against Shannon Sharpe (apnews.com)

Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the backdrop of a Mississippi welfare scandal that is one of the state’s largest public corruption cases....

Measurements

Why do hacked channels on youtube always post Tesla/SpaceX stuff?

Youtube Channel SaveAFox, previously a channel about like, a fox sanctuary that showed cute footage of the foxes to get more donors, got hacked today....

Sublime - Boss D.J. (www.youtube.com)

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[EA] Apex Legends™: Battle Pass Updates (www.ea.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14645191

How programmers comment their code

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Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled. (lemmy.world)

Colombia deforestation fell to historic low last year (www.aljazeera.com)

Sovcit humour. (lemmy.world)

Russian Government Moves To Stigmatize 'Extremist' Idea Of Not Having Children (www.rferl.org)

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/21819841

Sitting and shitting on my high horse

Columbia removes 3 deans for texts that touched on "antisemitic tropes" (www.axios.com)

These are the texts in question

Can I launch modern games thru RetroArch?

It’s just me or RetroArch developed the best FLOSS alternative to proprietary UI? You have a nice overlay, CRT shaders, bezels, some netplay function, customizable interface. All of this completely free and super fast....