San Francisco Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance (sfstandard.com)
A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries....
China Is Cracking Down on Cantonese Language Advocacy in Hong Kong (time.com)
Please stop with the fearmongering, if you are a US lemmy host follow preserve and report guidelines, stay vigilant, follow ongoing discussions of fixes and solutions and you should be fine. (www.eff.org)
I am seeing a lot of fearmongering and misinformation regarding recent events (CSAM being posted in now closed large lemmy.world communities). I say this as someone who brought attention to this with other admins as I noticed things were federating out....
TIL that .sucks is a valid web domain. As I post this, reddit.sucks is available. spez.sucks is available. trump.sucks is registered (get.sucks)
Apparently, they’ve been available since 2014.
TRUTH TIME! How many of you have actually read a user manual of an operating system completely?
[Mention your Sex if you are comfortable, I want to see the breakdown between the sexes here]...
Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them (www.bbc.com)
Observers on a boat using acoustic equipment reported four unidentified “gloops” but then realised their recording device wasn’t plugged in.
The world feeds the climate crisis with public money: Fossil fuel subsidies amounted to $7 trillion in 2022 (english.elpais.com)
Jan. 6 Rally Organizer Created Her Own Mugshot Because She Felt Left Out (www.vice.com)
Trump surrenders in Georgia election subversion case (www.cnn.com)
See the link for the long-awaited mugshot
Cat owners be like (startrek.website)
Biden launches ‘most affordable ever’ student loan repayment plan (www.theguardian.com)
Federal student loan borrowers can expect “the most affordable student loan plan ever”, Biden said in a video address on Tuesday announcing significant changes to the debt from higher education held by over an eighth of the country.
Question: Where is federated content stored?
I’ve been on Lemmy for some time now and it’s time for me to finally understand how Federation works. I have general idea and I have accounts on three federated instances, but I need some details....
Can anyone recommend a VPN that has working port forwarding?
I already had a cyberghost sub, but decided to try to switch to something better for seeding....
Pov: you are a Lemmy user (lemmy.world)
North Korea says Travis King wants refuge from mistreatment, racism in US (www.reuters.com)
For you, does "pretty good" mean something is better or worse than just "good"?
This default wallpaper. (feddit.de)
I recently noticed that the default background for Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” has a purple star missing and now that i noticed it, i can’t unsee it. The one towards the bottom right is barely visible so that passes.
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ (www.cnbc.com)
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’::As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
What alternative Android apps do you use for online platforms that are currently in the enshittification phase? (lemmy.world)
Obviously the ideal thing to do would be to stop using them entirely, but if you’re like me and you still have that one subreddit you still need to check on, some of your friends are still there, or you can’t find alternatives to YouTube’s content, then maybe you’re also looking for alternative front-ends that would at...
What's their secret? (lemmy.world)
How do Japanese live this long?...
What are your favorite news sources?
Just wondering your preferences
Video of a flash mob of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom department store in southern California (ktla.com)
Video captured a mob of thieves swarming a Nordstrom in Canoga Park as they cleared out the store during a destructive robbery on Saturday....
What antivirus software should i use?
It’s been a long while since i used a desktop and honestly can’t remember what antivirus software i used, and even then, probably the landscape has changed over the years....