Graffiti's quality of art and sentiment has fallen in the modern era (lemmy.world)
Boy survives 100ft Grand Canyon fall after dodging tourist photo (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1427367...
Like clockwork (i.imgur.com)
You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (www.theverge.com)
On my Threads profile, I changed my featured link to be my Mastodon profile URL....
'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral (www.pcgamer.com)
When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.
btrfs and nvme
So, recently, I bought an nvme ssd to replace the very old ssd I have on my laptop. I don’t know what the non-nvme is called. It shows as “sda” on the system. Anyway, doubled the storage. The new drive is an nvme WD black SN770. I have the same one running just fine on an optiplex dell mini running endeavourOS. Zero...
Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president (www.eurogamer.net)
Sales of Final Fantasy 16 did not meet Square Enix's high expectations, said president Takashi Kiryu. Last week the com…
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
I do not wish to live in the Gummy Universe. (lemmy.world)
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
Choosing a distro
Hi, I would like to ask if openSuse Tumbleweed is a good option for daily driving ang gaming. I’m not new to Linux and have tried Linux Mint and Ubuntu. I can also troubleshoot problems on my own if anything comes up. The graphics card I have is Nvidia if its any relevant.
A ‘failure to launch’: Why young people are having less sex (www.latimes.com)
For what researchers say is an array of reasons — including technology, heavy academic schedules and an overall slower-motion process of growing up — millennials and now Gen Zers are having less sex, with fewer partners, than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did. The social isolation and transmission scares...
Federal jury acquits Louisiana trooper caught on camera pummeling Black motorist (apnews.com)
A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday acquitted a white state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling the man 18 times with a flashlight.
Is slackware still widely used?
I’m looking into advanced distros (like arch) and slackware is fascinating. Is it still supported/used? If you’d like to comment an alternative distro, please do.
How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish (wedistribute.org)
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Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.fsf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2546109...
El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up (www.theguardian.com)
Nayib Bukele’s government has already locked up 2% of El Salvador’s adult population and built the largest prison in the Americas to house the 70,000 alleged gang members he has imprisoned....
"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.
What's your favourite open source app and why?
Spain's conservatives miss out on all-out victory as left celebrates (www.bbc.co.uk)
‘Judeo-Christian’ roots will ensure U.S. military AI is used ethically, general says (www.washingtonpost.com)
A U.S. Air Force general said Thursday the Pentagon's artificial intelligence ethics are better than adversaries' because "our society is a Judeo-Christian society."
"I love Android, but I prefer it more on tablets than phones" - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
Crappy band removes guitarist from photo when he can no longer perform due to healh reasons (lemmy.world)
What’s the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?
Boss and former coworker got into a very amusing argument over this and it got me curious.