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#StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25%

I’m not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted....

'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureate (www.abc.net.au)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19046336

Water Cycle (lemmy.world)

Some light fluff, Tankies pause the battle against capitalism to engage in some jolly consumerism. (sh.itjust.works)

how to choose window tiling manager?

I tried i3 and now just wondering, which WM I can pick and why, because of their great diversity. Any advices?

US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel amid threat of wider Middle East war (apnews.com)

UK charges pro-Palestine group members under terrorism law (www.aljazeera.com)

Day 26 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)

The game in the Screenshot is (modded) Skyrim. I went to Solitude and joined the Empire. On my way out I stopped by the Docks and checked things out. I snapped a picture of the warehouse doors on my way out I

Life trends that irritate you

Friends, what popular things around you irritate you? For example, a few years ago I was terribly annoyed by motivational speakers crawling out from under every bush

IDF uses Gazan civilians as human shields to inspect potentially booby-trapped tunnels (www.haaretz.com)

'Our lives are more important than their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say; IDF claims this practice is forbidden

'Republicans for Harris' want conservatives to vote Democrat in 2024 to topple Trump (www.npr.org)

I'm at a loss on what server to buy

I’m pretty new to self-hosting, and the NAS I’m using right now has been a pain since the moment I bought it. The Synology DS220+ just doesn’t have enough CPU power for my needs, and I’ve recently used up all the disk space I installed, so I’m looking for a new server....

OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)

Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?

War is ‘coming home’ to Russia, says Zelenskyy as fighting rages in Kursk (tvpworld.com)

Paying for direct movie downloads

This recent YouTube video from LTT on the topic of ripping DVDs and Blu-rays has got me wondering:...

Song of the Day: Never Too Much by Luther Vandross (youtu.be)

Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests (www.msn.com)

For the past 30 years, scientists have investigated whether the human brain might require quantum processes to achieve cognition.

Why does Frame Generation say I am getting 60fps but it doesn't look or feel like it?

Playing Ghost of Tsushima and just trying to get the best settings for my machine and was suggested to use high preset with resolution scaling off and frame Gen on....

Welcome new Lemmings.

Sober is a new way to play Roblox on Linux from the Vinegar team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

How I got HDR working on Linux with an Nvidia GPU

For those of you like me who are fed up with Microsoft’s BS but invested too heavily in hardware that Linux distros have yet to support well, I finally figured out a way to get HDR games to run well on my Nvidia GPU. This will be a brief description of more or less what I did to get this working. I’m very much a Linux noob...