Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Star Trek presence on Canvas growing! (canvas.toast.ooo)

– The SNW command delta is complete....

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? (www.wired.com)

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet (www.bbc.com)

The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus....

S.Korean experts seek to verify room-temperature superconductor claim (www.reuters.com)

Want to move on from Mastodon, but so confused on what platform to choose (kbin.social)

Recently I've dove a little deeper into the Fediverse. I began with Mastodon like many others and I'm ready to move on. Mastodon as a software in comparison to similar services in the Fediverse like Calckey/Firefish, Friendica, Misskey, etc. just isn't as good and the only thing it has going for it is an established user base...

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...

have won in lotto (programming.dev)

Reddit’s 2023 r/Place turned into a battleground for dunking on the CEO (www.polygon.com)

Rethinking Window Management on GNOME – Space and Meaning (blogs.gnome.org)

Alpine Linux does not make the news (drewdevault.com)

ESRB asks FTC to approve facial recognition age checker (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Musk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him (arstechnica.com)

Black man who says he was elected mayor of Alabama town alleges that White leaders are keeping him from position (www.cbsnews.com)

A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

1984 by George Orwell (sh.itjust.works)

I don’t really know how to write this one as I am not really one of those who report on books....

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists” (arstechnica.com)

Moscow on grain deal: UN has three months to implement Russian agreement (www.reuters.com)

Weawow is a free and ad-free weather service with 4.9 ratings, choice of weather service, and highly customisable widgets (beehaw.org)

I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....

researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China developed all-solid-state batteries that match cutting-edge performance at just 4 per cent of the cost. (www.scmp.com)

/r/interestingasfuck is now moderated by /u/ModCodeofConduct, and all the pornography has been removed. (www.reddit.com)

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant prepares to release diluted radioactive water into the sea (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

There go my swimming on Korea’s east side plans for this year.

A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font (jdsalaro.com)

Hey Folks!...

SUSE plan on forking RHEL and make a RHEL compatible distro available for everyone (www.suse.com)

San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)

Safe Streets Rebel’s protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said…

How Pirates Thwarted America’s Plan to Go Metric (psnaudus.medium.com)

In the late 1700s, Thomas Jefferson wanted the United States to adopt a unified system of measurement and saw the metric system as the best solution. However, a pirate attack in the Caribbean disrupted these plans. Joseph Dombey, a French scientist carrying a kilogram and meter stick to demonstrate the metric system, was...