Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?
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Calls for ‘ecocide’ law to punish those who destroy nature like war criminals (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)
Debian turns 30 – and important to Linux world as ever (www.theregister.com)
More the merrier (lemmy.world)
YSK that restroom hand dryers blow fecal bacteria onto your hands (journals.asm.org)
There was a peer-reviewed report published in the journal for Applied and Environmental Microbiology that studied the amount of bacteria that was blown from hand dryers in 36 public restrooms at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The sample from the study concluded that as many as 60 colonies of bacteria were...
Five years ago (20.08.2018) Greta Thunberg demonstrated the first time for more climate protection. What has she achieved so far?
Starbucks ordered to pay extra $2.7M to employee who said she was fired for being white (abcnews.go.com)
A jury previously awarded Shannon Phillips $25.6 million.
PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?
So, yesterday I broke my dominant arm. Yay! For the next 6 weeks, I have a cast, and at least for now, I can’t use my right hand or arm at all (I am typing this with my left hand)....
if you could fight one person – living or dead – without suffering legal consequences, who would you choose?
No fictional characters. Sorry, Grandpa Joe haters.
Google Messages turning on RCS by default, group E2E encryption launches (9to5google.com)
I want to switch to android
I am currently an IOS user, however, as the title suggests, I wish to switch to android. This is because I would prefer to use free software and not be locked into the apple ecosystem. That being said I am already locked into apple and would like to know how anyone else here has managed the switch....
TIL the military cannot enlist a recruit with an IQ measured lower than 80 and is required to keep enlisted individuals with an IQ of 81-92 to less than 20% of the armed forces in active duty. (www.law.cornell.edu)
(a)The number of persons originally enlisted or inducted to serve on active duty (other than active duty for training) in any armed force during any fiscal year whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is at or above the tenth percentile and below the thirty-first percentile may not exceed 20 percent of the total...
Gnome is Rethinking Window Management (blogs.gnome.org)
Twitter Sues Hate-Speech Research Group Over Claims That Hateful, Racist Content Has Proliferated Under Musk’s Ownership (variety.com)
Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “Despite our continued progress, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims encouraging advertisers to pause investment on the platform. X is a free public service funded...
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)
OceanGate’s cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn’t stop pushing the limits of innovation::Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light (jalopnik.com)
cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/81940...
Why does all of this alien stuff take place mostly in the USA?
It occurred to me while reading about UFO whistleblower news. Why do the majority of UFO things occur in the United States rather than Russia, China, and other countries?...
The whole island of Sicily covered by wildfires tonight. It's a catastrophe. Here is a satellite image. (feddit.uk)
Sicily - which has already been brought to its knees by a prolonged heatwave - is battling wildfires that are threatening towns and cities across the island.
For the love of god make this happen (kbin.social)
drive space karen bonkers
not seeing any non negligible difference between 60 and 120 Hz, am I weird?
Just got a new phone (OnePlus Nord 3), turned refresh rate HUD in developer settings and I see some parts of the system and some apps display 120 Hz but I have problem noticing any difference, same with my wife’s Redmi Note 12, i have to look very carefully and maaaybe I notice some different, not sure
A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students (www.nbcnews.com)
The nation’s second-largest teachers union said Thursday it was losing patience with social media apps that it says are contributing to mental health problems and misbehavior in classrooms nationwide, draining time and money from teachers and school systems.
Best Linux laptop for 2023
I’m in the market for a new Linux laptop. My current machine is a 2018 i7 with 64GB of RAM, a 4K screen, 1TB of storage, 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A....
i hate when this happens (pawb.social)
Why is snaps hated
I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?...