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Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?

Despite not subscribing to political communities and having a large number of content filters based on keywords, my feed here is still for a large part all negative articles and ragebait. Elon Musk this and Israel that. Microsoft ruining windows, AI ruining internet, right wingers and capitalism ruining the world, police being...

Hidden by default (lemmy.world)

Are business cards still a thing?

Do people still hand out physical business cards at events or is it all digital now?...

Japan moves up to 118th in the world for gender equality (www.asahi.com)

Singer sues hospital, says staff thought he was mentally ill and wasn't member of Four Tops (apnews.com)

The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group....

Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested (arstechnica.com)

China Gives Six Patrol Boats to Myanmar Junta (www.irrawaddy.com)

Season one of StarTrek.website is in the bag! So we've added "V'ger", as a treat.

Like many other Lemmy instances, we turned one this week! If you enjoy the Voyager app experience but prefer to only login locally (not that there’s any reason whatsoever to distrust vger.app) or not log in at all, we now have an option for you!...

I refuse to believe that they made that abomination of a sequel (lemmy.world)

Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to govern by AI bot (arstechnica.com)

South Australia to legislate 'world leading' electoral donation ban prohibiting donations and gifts to political parties, backed by tough penalties for those who seek to circumvent the law (www.premier.sa.gov.au)

The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has announced plans to ban donations to registered political parties, members of parliament and candidates. The state will provide funding to allow parties and candidates to contest elections, run campaigns and promote political ideas, according to the proposed bill....

Trump's bid to steal the youth (www.axios.com)

The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake (www.yahoo.com)

A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team (www.pcgamer.com)

Quite sad.

A list of ROM torrent link

So in light of the recent Rom site shutting down, Here is the torrent link for all the NES roms I could find. Rom hack included. It’s not much, but it’s honest work nonetheless. I will try and find as many ROM torrent link as possible for seeding to help preservation of games...

Justice Clarence Thomas formally reports trip to Bali paid for by conservative donor (www.cnn.com)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday formally disclosed a 2019 trip to Indonesia paid for by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, a vacation that was at the center of the controversy over his travel....

QT Theme management in Sway

I use VLC,Keepass,Kdenlive and few other QT Apps on my sway setup. So, wanted to configure their themes from Sway. I installed qt5ct and qt6ct and did export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct in bashrc and .profile. While runnin echo $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME it is showing qt5ct but it is not working showing that error message that...

Microsoft president to testify before House panel over security lapses (www.reuters.com)

Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify before a House of Representatives panel on homeland security on Thursday, fielding questions about the company’s security practices after Russian and Chinese hackers breached its systems over the past year....