TIL in Australia the name of the band "AC/DC" is pronounced "Acca Dacca" (en.wikipedia.org)
‘They Treat Us Worse Than Animals’: Working Without Water at Amazon (tribunemag.co.uk)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Can't ticket what you can't catch (sh.itjust.works)
Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel (www.bbc.co.uk)
Huawei's New Mystery 7nm Chip from Chinese Fab Defies US Sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone (www.theverge.com)
Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
My friend who runs the instance i am on nuked all the images cause some degen thought spreading cp was a good idea. So have some more motivational word art (lemmy.letthewookiee.win)
What happened to Boost for Lemmy?
It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
Lemmy Handshake - Beta release (sh.itjust.works)
The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it’s opensource and free, currently working in android and windows....
What are some podcasts that you really recommend ?
Woman sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for trying to mail Trump ricin (www.axios.com)
A woman who mailed then-President Trump a threatening letter that contained ricin weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to 262 months in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.
[❓] ChatGPT's fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly edges closer to bankruptcy (www.windowscentral.com)
Investors are barely breaking even as the venture is hardly making any profits due to a shortage of chips, divided interests, and more....
Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say - Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites (www.eff.org)
Summary...
Lemmy Canvas 2023 has ended! (toast.ooo)
It was really been a blast to run this event, thank you all for participating!! ♥♥♥...
Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver?
I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden,...
Singapore hangs third person for drug offences in little over a week (www.aljazeera.com)
The world's first colour e-ink monitor is essentially a 25-inch Kindle (www.creativebloq.com)
Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? (i.ibb.co)
Shrodinger’s Megamind (lemmy.world)
I can hear this post in their voices. Maybe I’ve seen the movie too many times…nah
A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities is also a nice tool for finding new places....
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 23rd
A new week and a new thread....
Viewing lemmy posts by all tends to be dominated by a few communities
I’ve noticed that there are a few communities that tend to dominate when viewing all. Some days it gets to where looking at all isn’t very different than just looking at [email protected] or [email protected]....
How do you choose an instance and does that have a significant effect on your Lemmy experience?
I originally chose to make my account on lemmy.world since all the content seemed to come from there. But I’ve since learned that I can fill my feed with stuff from any instance so it feels like it doesn’t actually matter if I’m on lemmy.world or not. At the same time, Lemmy.world seems to be frequently under attack so...
Got tipping rage? This barista reveals what it's like to be behind the tip screen (www.npr.org)
Excerpt from the article:...
