West Texas Pastor Who Used Illegal Donations From Churches to Campaign for Office Is Fined $3,500 (www.propublica.org)
ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)
Psychological truths like Skinner vs Pavlov Conditioning
Something I find fascinating is that being consistent (and trustworthy) is less effective than being 80/20% consistent (classical vs operant conditioning) at training dogs where there are contextual/environmental cues at play. It’s personally counter-intuitive, but I’ve seen it work and am convinced (I attribute it to...
Taliban: Female athletes do not represent Afghanistan at the Paris Olympics this month. (feminist.org)
‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza (www.972mag.com)
The six sources — all except one of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — recounted how Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians simply because they entered an area that the military defined as a “no-go zone.” The testimonies paint a picture of a landscape littered with civilian corpses, which are...
How long until society's collapse?
With worrying global trends like climate change, pollution, increasingly divided or radical governments, economic woes, misinformation and disinformation everywhere, dangerous health crises and so on, what do you think - how much time do we have before “it all comes crashing down”? What will end life or our way of life as we...
High-ranking corrupt officials in China earn eight to fourteen times their regular salary by profiting from corruption, study based on official data says (www.zew.de)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/610385...
This may be my favorite CLI tool ever - TypeCraft (www.youtube.com)
Karaage Chicken with Sushi rice (i.imgur.com)
Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says (www.propublica.org)
Archived version...
Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere (www.scientificamerican.com)
The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.
Konami is intent on region locking Japanese players out of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (automaton-media.com)
Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from https://reddthat.com/post/21846504
Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)
Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...
Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn (arstechnica.com)
Denise Finger, wife of the deceased, wrote to the Linux Wireless list on Friday evening:...
Sadly sideloading xbox fire tv app on a google tv doesn't work :(
You can sideload the xbox fire tv app on a android/google tv. However you are unable to sign in as it boots you to the wrong page. On a fire tv its supposed to have you do some steps....
Steam announces game recording beta (store.steampowered.com)
Indian Prime Minister Modi makes first visit to Russia since the start of its war on Ukraine (apnews.com)
French conservatives move toward far-right alliance (www.dw.com)
The leader of France’s Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo....
7 Essential Linux Terms Explained: Distro, DE, Repos, and More (www.howtogeek.com)
The Linux Kernel...
Let's discuss: Super Mario (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
A dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary
What is your favourite game with native Linux port? (factorio.com)
For me, it’s Factorio....