Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them. (www.nytimes.com)
Beijing intervenes in China’s solar industry as overcapacity dries up profit in the country's domestic market
China’s energy regulator said it will limit “low-end” solar panel manufacturing after industry leaders called for more government intervention earlier this month. The move is an acknowledgement by Beijing that solar panel overcapacity is a problem, one that has pushed Chinese solar firms into a price war and shriveled...
[Solved] [Help] Should I use zram?
Hello, I came across zram recently and I’d like to know if I should use it, my laptop only has ~4GB of ram, and for the most part it’ll only stutter when I open multiple programs or a game, so would zram be adequate in my case?...
Study: More complaints, worse performance when AI monitors employees (phys.org)
Trump Tower is coming to Saudi Arabia | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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Ron DeSantis vetoes millions in arts grants to defund “sexual” theater festivals (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Good morning I choose creative forms of transportation. (lemmy.world)
Protests continue in Kenya as some are now calling for the president to step down (abcnews.go.com)
hi im new to lemmy, some intro and questions
here to discover one more fediverse platform (i have a pretty active mastodon account: @ralen) im interested in tech, specifically linux and other foss systems, like haiku, bsd, redox etc, other foss technologies and software, new hardware, specifically risc-v hardware (tho dont have any myself yet), foss android apps (i build...
This inmate says rat gave birth in his pants- but no suprise (www.cbc.ca)
Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there.
Different types of people
Discord servers and their problem
The Discord app is the most popular chatting app....
my fault gang
'The way our districts are drawn is BS:' Ohio redistricting effort moves toward fall ballot (www.dispatch.com)
Apple could announce a Google Gemini deal this fall (www.theverge.com)
Israel releases director of hospital it says was used as a Hamas base. He alleges abuse in custody (apnews.com)
Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday after holding him for seven months without charge or trial over allegations the facility had been used as a Hamas command center. He said he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and tortured....
The Dirt (poemsprout.blogspot.com)
Peru grants China's state-owned Cosco Shipping the exclusive right to operate its Chanchay port while pressure is built to construct a highway across the Amazon rainforest (www.asianews.it)
Peru and Cosco Shipping, a Chinese state-owned construction company, have settled a dispute over the business model to be put in place for the Port of Chancay, built under China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. The company is granted the exclusive right to operate the port after it is inaugurated in a few months....
UVC Viewer with Upscaling
I have a UVC capture card that I use to play my Switch. Currently, I utilize it via the full screen projector feature of OBS, but the Switch is 1080p while my monitor is 4k and the upscaling that OBS uses causes some noticeable artifacts....
Sound on! (but not too loud since it is a little NSFW-ish) (i.imgur.com)
In case the main link doesn’t work: i.imgur.com/KFWEX4S.mp4...
"Outrageously" priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care (arstechnica.com)
With the debut of remarkably effective weight-loss drugs, America’s high obesity rate and its uniquely astronomical prescription drug pricing appear to be set on a catastrophic collision course—one that threatens to “bankrupt our entire health care system,” according to a new Senate report that modeled the economic...
‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)
Keeping Tradition (lemmy.world)
Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more (www.theverge.com)
The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...