This week in KDE: Triple buffering and other sources of amazingness (pointieststick.com)
Mozilla Corporation Org Changes to Accelerate our Path to the Future | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support (www.phoronix.com)
OpenAI to spit out News Corp content (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
Trump dealt double-whammy of losses: Hush-money judge remains on case, trial stays in Manhattan (lawandcrime.com)
Norway bans entry for most Russians (www.politico.eu)
Russians traveling for tourism or other nonessential reasons
Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024 (www.dw.com)
They never let me (sh.itjust.works)
Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Dozens of rivers and streams in Alaska are turning rusty orange, a likely consequence of thawing permafrost, a new study finds....
Police identify 12th victim buried on estate of closeted Republican murderer (www.lgbtqnation.com)
TIL catnip is safe and healthy for dogs and can act as a mild sedative (www.rover.com)
Is Catnip Safe for Dogs?...
Developing a game on Linux with no budget and (mostly) FOSS tools. (store.steampowered.com)
(tldr, open source software has come a long way, and it’s more than possible to create a full game without leaving Linux.)...
Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade (www.972mag.com)
Rich nations are earning billions from a pledge to help fix climate (www.reuters.com)
Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the lending nations, a Reuters data analysis found....
Missouri senators, not taxpayers, will pay potential damages in Chiefs rally shooting case (apnews.com)
After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians (apnews.com)
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Ukraine bombs the port where Russia's Black Sea fleet moved to after Crimea got too risky for its warships, reports say (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukrainian drones hit Novorossiysk port, causing a fire and power outages, reports say....
New Russian antidrone wunderwaffen revealed (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord (github.com)
I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it’s a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It’s a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord’s API. The “installer” sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the...
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater...
Zelensky wants China at Ukraine peace talks, cites ‘influence on Russia’ | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Twitter is fully X.com now. (www.wired.com)
archive.is link
Canada sanctions Israeli settlers as attacks on Palestinians skyrocket (aje.io)
Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean? (kbin.melroy.org)
c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues...
stupidestAdvertisingEver (kbin.melroy.org)
Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol...
