Putin says Trump conviction ‘burns’ idea of US as leading democracy (www.theguardian.com)
Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)
New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an “AI powered” alt-text generator....
Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand (www.rawstory.com)
The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows....
Is TikTok breaking young voters’ brains? (www.vox.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse mocked for trying to make ‘gay’ a slur on the first day of Pride Month (www.advocate.com)
'Democrats have a plan': Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashes new election conspiracy theory (www.rawstory.com)
Georgia court of appeals indefinitely pauses the election subversion conspiracy case against Donald Trump (www.cnn.com)
My grocery store wants to know my BMI (lemmy.world)
If they were interested in my location they could request location data. What are the odds they are doing this to directly market products to people based on health data?...
I'll just leave this here... (startrek.website)
Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less (www.forbes.com)
Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.
FBI Raids Corporate Landlord in Major Rent Price-Fixing Probe: What It Means for You (upriseri.com)
Not Total Recall (1990)
Corporate America is Just Office Space in Real Life (sh.itjust.works)
Linux on old School Machines?
Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...
How Elon Musk's Starlink Turned Remote Amazon Tribe Into Social Media And Pornography Addicts (in.mashable.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16214293...
Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?
We’ve all heard it before: People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line....
GOG will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st (support.gog.com)
"Designed to better support our users" (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
Not that I use them anymore anyway, cancelling my old account, but name and shame any companies who conveniently can’t support their free base. Also - it’s VNC. It’s a protocol. There’s a dozen free clients out there.
Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10 (arstechnica.com)
Bee is stored in the walls (lemmy.world)
The full video from the famous "Tank Man" photo (vimeo.com)
Edit: YouTube link if Vimeo gives you issues...
What are your favourite moments in videogames?
For me it is opening credits sequence in Nier Automata, Shadowlord’s castle in Nier Replicant and AI reveal in MGS2. All these three games are masterclass in storytelling.
Nvidia overtakes Apple as the second most valuable company. (www.cnbc.com)
Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...