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Excitement to Disinterest in 30 Seconds (lemmy.world)

Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes (www.theolognion.com)

The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.

Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ Creating Real Problems As VPNs Start Turning Away Italian Users

it is so dystopian…

Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat (www.nytimes.com)

Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat::The president ordered an investigation into auto technology that could track U.S. drivers, part of a broader effort to stop E.V. and other smart-car imports from China.

Neat factor

I’ve messed around with Linux before, mostly in VMs, but I’m looking to switch over from Windows permanently on my laptop because I think Linux is cool. Most people in this community talk about pros and cons of this distro or this other distro, but I’d like to hear your opinions based on entirely subjective factors....

Pakistan woman in Arabic script dress saved from mob claiming blasphemy (www.bbc.com)

An angry mob in Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Quran verses....

Good mini PC for around 100€

My current setup consists of a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4gb RAM and a 1tb external SSD. I’m thinking of getting a used mini PC for around 100€ to replace that tho because it would give me a lot more power and especially RAM (I currently need to use an 8gb swap file). My plan so far is to get a used mini PC that’s quiet, has a...

I got a new mechanical jeyboard! (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)

Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit (www.gamingonlinux.com)

YSK: About BangYourBuck.com, which lets you sort Amazon by price per pound/count/etc.

It’s a website that lets you sort amazon by price per ounce/pound/count...

Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail (therecord.media)

Putin banked €1B last year from EU fuel buys despite ban (www.politico.eu)

Seven refineries processing Moscow’s crude in India, Turkey and Bulgaria continued exporting refined fuels to the EU.

Sad but true (lemmy.world)

More Than Half the World Faces High Risk of Measles Outbreaks Following 'Big Gaps' in Immunizations, WHO Says (people.com)

More than half the world will be at a “high or very high risk” of measles outbreaks by the end of 2024, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)....

Tell me more, Mr. Sauron (media.kbin.social)

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)

Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector....

Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen's death was not result of injuries from high school fight (apnews.com)

Police in Oklahoma say a teen who died a day after an altercation at school did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the fight.

Climb in, my brothers (lemmy.world)

Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke sentenced to up to 60 years for child abuse (www.msnbc.com)

Ruby Franke, a once-popular online mom influencer with millions of followers, has been sentenced to four one- to 15-year terms in prison for child abuse....

The reason everyone thinks Americans have no culture is because their culture is prevalent everywhere.

Most cultures stand out but American culture doesn’t because basically everywhere has some sorta American influence.

If you lost half of your income, but got memories of a a version of yourself living a life of leisure with that part of your income every night, would life be better or worse than it is right now?

Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out?

Someone keeps trying to access my MS account (lemmy.world)

Like the title says, I’ve got yesterday an email with a code to access my Microsoft account and that made me suspicious because I wasn’t trying to login to my account. When I looked at the login attempts I saw that someone else was trying to access my account, I changed my password, activated TFA. Thinking of going through...

‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)

An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.