On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observers without replacement (foundation.mozilla.org)
This is quite concerning
One of Malaysia's largest media groups announced partnership with a Chinese media outlet directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Is it turning a blind eye to the political motives behind? (chinamediaproject.org)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11089665...
28 Years Later: Everything We Know About the Sequel Trilogy (www.joblo.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10503609...
Cody Jinks - Rock and Roll (piped.video)
Unequipped and outgunned, Ukrainian military often can’t evacuate its wounded (kyivindependent.com)
The main reason for the absence of medical evacuation is simple and gruesome: The fighting is just too intense....
Quick video demonstrating that lemmy.world sends every activity out twice (i.imgur.com)
I realise this is a known issue and that lemmy.world isn’t the only instance that does this. Also, I’m aware that there are other things affecting federation. But I’m seeing some things not federate, and can’t help thinking that things would be going smoother if all the output from the biggest lemmy instance wasn’t 50%...
Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com” (arstechnica.com)
catastrophy (sopuli.xyz)
Testing request: Fedora 40 on NVIDIA RTX 3000 series GPUs (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
Prosecutors: South Carolina prison supervisor took $219,000 in bribes; got 173 cellphones to inmates (apnews.com)
Christine Mary Livingston, 46, was indicted earlier this month on 15 charges including bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering....
'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry' (www.pcgamer.com)
Balatro Hits One Million Copies Sold In Less Than A Month, Mobile Port Incoming (kotaku.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning (www.eurogamer.net)
The cat is out of the bag and despite many years of warning before this and similar technology became widely available, nobody was really prepared for it - and everyone is solely acting in their own best interests (or what they think their best interests to be). I think the biggest failure is that despite there being warnings...
Cheesing it up (slrpnk.net)
farmlinkproject.org/…/cheese-caves-and-food-surpl…
Wield The Hammer - Neon Odin (neonodin.bandcamp.com)
Crab Fit, an open source tool for group event planning (similar to When2Meet) (crab.fit)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/19327950...
Beijing is spending big in order to “de-risk” itself from Australia in a move that could cripple Aussies. (www.news.com.au)
Iran fires drones, missiles at Israel in first-ever direct attack; IDF downing them (www.timesofisrael.com)
Iran on Saturday night launched a large wave of attack drones from its territory toward the Jewish state, in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by the Islamic Republic, with warning sirens activated in Israeli communities throughout the country early Sunday as the military worked to intercept the Iranian aircraft....
What's the most interesting traditional or formal politeness behaviour or table manners in your culture? Or for any service personnel, in your restaurant? (kbin.social)
I love all the ritualized behaviour, secret meanings and unexpected taboos - standing up when someone of higher status stands, elaborate rules for serving and eating, tapping the table to thank the server, never refuse a toast from a superior, stuff like that....
Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general (www.businessinsider.com)
I don't wanna know how this happened... or what follows... (infosec.pub)
Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming (9to5google.com)
Google announced today that VPN by Google One is shutting down in the coming months....
Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10012136...
The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing Activism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18399875...
The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns (www.smh.com.au)
Almost 90 per cent of the global supply for polysilicon, a common raw material in electronic devices and solar panels, comes from China, and about half of that comes from Xinjiang, the north-western province that is home to the Uyghurs, says Grace Forrest, founder of Walk Free, a charity dedicating to fight forced labour....
