German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)
A dangerous return to denial: Trump's threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug (www.salon.com)
Over 150 elementary schools have no 1st graders: Korean ministry (www.koreaherald.com)
Life Hack (lemm.ee)
me_irl (lemm.ee)
AI's biggest triumphs are not AI (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Israeli advocacy star Eylon Levy launches private public diplomacy project (www.ynetnews.com)
After being dismissed from his position as English-language government spokesperson, Eylon Levy launched a new crowdfunding campaign on the JGive website in order to fund a private international advocacy project under his leadership, which will promote his and other spokespersons’ independent public diplomacy efforts. Four...
Boom in mating calls of Britain’s loudest bird signals successful breeding year (www.theguardian.com)
Conservationists recorded 24% more male bitterns doing their mating ‘booming’ noise in 2023 than five years ago...
Anybody have favorite Master System games? (lemmus.org)
Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification (www.theverge.com)
Joint World Bank, UN Report Assesses Damage to Gaza’s Infrastructure (www.worldbank.org)
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 – The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of the European Union. That is equivalent to 97% of the combined GDP of the West Bank and Gaza in 2022.
New mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide (apnews.com)
The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence....
Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (www.newsweek.com)
At Indonesia’s biggest bank, customers’ savings can vanish with a click | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Warming is getting worse. So they just tested a way to deflect the sun. (www.nytimes.com)
A little before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, an engineer named Matthew Gallelli crouched on the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay, pulled on a pair of ear protectors, and flipped a switch....
Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/28549378...
Chinese signatures on graduation certificates upset northern Virginia police chief (apnews.com)
A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates....
Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn (mynorthwest.com)
Rebase Supremacy (programming.dev)
Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu (animeshz.github.io)
Health ministry in Gaza says war death toll at 33,091 (today.lorientlejour.com)
The health ministry in Gaza said Friday that at least 33,091 people have been killed in the territory during nearly six months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants....
President Macron says France and its allies 'could have stopped' the 1994 Rwanda genocide (apnews.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide but lacked the will to do so, a strong declaration ahead of the African country’s 30th anniversary of the slaughter that left over 800,000 people dead....