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One state’s big plan to fix the high cost of college (www.vox.com)

(OC) Plymouth Rock chicken babies (lemmus.org)

Joining Fedora Linux to an enterprise domain - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age (www.theguardian.com)

Five-decade UK study finds that aggression at school leads to better-paying jobs, while those with emotional instability went on to earn less...

Ukraine-sceptic government ally Peter Pellegrini wins Slovakian presidential election (amp.theguardian.com)

The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution (www.bbc.com)

Bloody and in pain, when a plastic straw became lodged in the nostril of a turtle, a video showing its removal shook the world – sparking a movement to rid the world of plastic straws....

Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections (www.nbcnews.com)

Residents and businesses nationwide have been reporting slowdowns in mail and package delivery by the U.S. Postal Service, raising concerns that mail-in ballots could be affected in the upcoming election....

Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say (apnews.com)

For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said....

Israel/OPT: Death in custody of Walid Daqqah is cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life (www.amnesty.org)

Responding to the death in custody of Walid Daqqah, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after having spent 38 years imprisoned, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns said:...

'Explicit GPU Synchronization for DRI3, Present, and Xwayland' merged into XOrg (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

EU increases tariffs on Russian grain to hamper its war effort – but it’s European consumers who could feel the pinch (theconversation.com)

New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in fruit and vegetables in UK (www.independent.co.uk)

Long-lasting toxins known as “forever chemicals” have been found in common UK fruits, vegetables and spices, prompting alarm over potential impacts on public health among campaigners....

You fuckin' hobbits came up here to smoke dope on Mount Doom, huh? (sopuli.xyz)

China and Russia make united stand to reform West-led global system (www.scmp.com)

Xi Jinping tells Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Beijing is prepared to step up coordination with Moscow through BRICS and the SCO...

WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multiservice messaging app Beeper for $125M | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

acceptable screws (sopuli.xyz)

Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)

Israeli troops shoot and kill a Palestinian shepherd reading the Quran on his land (www.haaretz.com)

Three soldiers pounce on a shepherd sitting outside his sheep pen. They knock him over and then one of them shoots him to death at point-blank range. Fakher Jaber, a father of four, was suspected of involvement in an incident that probably never happened...

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists (www.theguardian.com)

I have just seen this in my dreams trust bros (sh.itjust.works)

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How the xz backdoor highlights a major flaw in Nix (shadeyg56.vercel.app)

The main issue is the handling of security updates within the Nixpkgs ecosystem, which relies on Nix’s CI system, Hydra, to test and build packages. Due to the extensive number of packages in the Nixpkgs repository, the process can be slow, causing delays in the release of updates. As an example, the updated xz 5.4.6 package...