kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become (www.theguardian.com)

How Alice: Madness Returns Found New Life on the Internet Long After the Departure of Its Creator - IGN (www.ign.com)

Microdosing and tripping on mushrooms is on the rise in U.S. (www.npr.org)

Phone home tracking image in DocuSeal, and how to remove it (www.reddit.com)

Kinda proud of this, so forgive me while I brag. I found a likely “phone home” tracking image in DocuSeal. I searched around: there was an extant issue about the image. I asked the devs: would they accept a PR to remove the image? A maintainer responded quickly that they were not interested in a PR to remove it, so I forked...

ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later (arstechnica.com)

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though… for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection...

Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife (knowablemagazine.org)

The wall has been devastating to wildlife, it has effectively stopped them from accessing water, but it has not stopped humans.

Capcom and GOG join forces to release the original Resident Evil trilogy! (www.gog.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17321306...

Polls close in Mauritania, with the incumbent ally of the West favored to win (apnews.com)

In a world of globalized trade, an industry of piratical lawyers has arisen to help transnational corporations seize the assets of supposedly sovereign states. (daily.jstor.org)

For centuries, there was little real distinction between trade and piracy....

Adult film star Austin Wolf arrested on child pornography charges (www.advocate.com)

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com)

Asus ROG Ally X Hands-On vs Asus ROG Ally - What's New & What It Means For Gaming [ Digital Foundry ] (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80 (www.thewrap.com)

As a big fan of both Clue and Fernwood 2 Night, this one hit hard.

Snakes and... er rockets? (sh.itjust.works)

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I made a blog post about an old IBM server! (blog.krafting.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17048910...

Can the SATA-to-USB adapter affect the result of the bad sectors scan? (lemmy.world)

Hi, I am planning to purchase a 2.5-inch HDD. If I connect it to my computer using a SATA to USB adapter instead of directly to the computer’s SATA, can it somehow affect the result of this scan?...

Sun Chasing | Posy [6:06] (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Years Later, Philippines Reckons With Duterte’s Brutal Drug War (www.nytimes.com)

A president’s vow to fight drugs unleashed violence and fostered a culture of impunity. But the crimes are finally getting a look, including from the International Criminal Court.

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers (arstechnica.com)

In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have...

US sends land-attack missile system to Philippines for exercises in apparent message to China (edition.cnn.com)

After unilaterally withdrawing from the INF treaty in 2019, US is the first country to develop and now deploy weapons prohibited under the treaty in the Philippines this year. It’s now clear the US sought to withdraw so it could develop and deploy prohibited weapons against China.

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