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Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)

The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)

How many times even has this happened?!?!

YSK that Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, will donate all profits on September 13th (tomorrow) to victims of the recent Moroccan earthquake (blog.ecosia.org)

Ecosia is great in general, they’ve done stuff like this before for wildfires and such, and they are carbin negative and use 100% of their profits for helping the planet...

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 "Faye" Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing (9to5linux.com)

Any distros you reccomend with these requirements

Free and open-source....

Tetris on termux on Android phone (lemmy.ca)

I never imagined I’d like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!...

What are some popular sci-fi gadgets that are actually possible to construct in theory?

I am talking about gadgets we see in science fiction movies that obey the laws of physics of our universe and could theoretically be constructed, barring the limitations of materials, energy and time faced by our civilization at the moment.

He's gone now. He said we should find another format to replace this one. (sh.itjust.works)

US solar power capacity to expand by record 32 gigawatts in 2023, report says (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of production capacity this year, up 53% on new capacity in 2022 and helped by investment incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, a report published on Thursday showed....

Famed tech journalist (Walt Mossberg) deletes X account with epic rant at Elon Musk (www.independent.co.uk)

Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”...

Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave (gizmodo.com)

We should have an annual Mega Cake Month for all of those who joined Lemmy back in June, to celebrate our move away from Reddit.

Delta flight returns after passenger has diarrhea ‘all the way through’ plane (www.theguardian.com)

TIL researchers reviewed 40 episodes of the "Dr. Oz Show" and discovered that almost half of the medical advice had no supporting evidence (www.reliasmedia.com)

"To show all the ideological diversity that Hexbear has I think everyone should have to do a polcomp test." -- To no one's surprise, there is no diversity. (hexbear.net)

This is a marxist leninist house (lemmy.world)

Broadcaster: I heard a rumor that he even has some hair left and those are his original teeth. Incredible. (lemmy.world)

Is creating throwaway accounts on lemmy bad?

I was wondering whether that could cause issues for the limited servers available, like when the mass migration from reddit happened. Would it be bad to add more accounts that would be mostly dormant? And if one does create a throwaway would it be better to delete the account afterwards.