TIL the film "Close encounters of the Third Kind" is shown every single night at the Devil Tower KOA, making it one of the most screened movies ever. (cowboystatedaily.com)
SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com)
Text Processing Compass (lemmy.sdf.org)
The Final Earth 2, a skyscraper(s) management and base building hybrid game, releases their 4.1 patch (store.steampowered.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18479931
Owner of Southport’s Windsor Mini Mart: ‘My shop was looted by rioters, then saved by strangers’ (www.bbc.co.uk)
Chanaka Balasuriya, the 47-year-old owner of Southport’s Windsor Mini Mart, has been deeply affected by the violent unrest that spread across the UK - but also by the acts of compassion that followed.
Traffic control booth. Chernivtsi, Ukraine. 1970s (lemmy.world)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 79 (fediversereport.com)
This week’s news:...
Tunisia's electoral commission accepts just three candidates for presidential election (www.reuters.com)
TUNIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Saturday it had preliminarily accepted only three presidential candidates, including incumbent Kais Saied, amid widespread criticism of what the opposition says are moves to exclude serious contenders....
Sierra Leone court sentences soldiers to long jail terms for failed coup (www.reuters.com)
FREETOWN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A military court in Sierra Leone has sentenced 24 soldiers to lengthy prison terms for their roles in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of President Julius Maada Bio last November.
Sudanese consultations with US on peace talks conclude without agreement, Sudan official says (www.reuters.com)
CAIRO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Sudan’s consultations with the U.S. concluded without reaching an agreement on whether a delegation representing the army or the government will participate in peace talks in Geneva on Aug. 14, the head of Sudan’s delegation said on Sunday.
Rwanda's President Kagame sworn in to extend lengthy tenure (www.reuters.com)
KIGALI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was sworn into office on Sunday for a five-year term, after a landslide win in last month’s election extended his near quarter century in office....
Death toll from landslide at Uganda garbage dump rises to 21 (www.reuters.com)
KAMPALA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors....
German mosque took orders from Iran, aided Hezbollah before closure - report (www.jpost.com)
Reddit CEO Suggests Some Subreddits Could Be Paywalled (www.macrumors.com)
Not even if they were the last SM on earth as far as I’m concerned....
Nature finds a way (lemmy.world)
Not OC
YeeHaw (lemmy.world)
I do not like (lemmy.world)
Liars (lemmy.world)
United States and China fight to 40-40 draw for most Olympic gold medals (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s the first standoff in summer games history and it took a nail-biting U.S. women’s basketball win, in the final action of Paris 2024, to make happen....
Reddit CEO Teases Paywalled Subreddits (www.pcmag.com)
How can I set a minimum time interval between consecutive mouse clicks in KDE Plasma 6?
My mouse right-click is double-clicking. I want to have a time interval between two clicks to register the second one. Is there a way to do this in KDE Plasma 6?
Hamas head Yahya Sinwar seeks ceasefire deal - CNN (www.jpost.com)
Disguised ships and front companies: how North Korea has evaded sanctions to grow a global weapons industry (theconversation.com)
Enforcement of United Nations sanctions against North Korea has actually been eroding for years. The final coup de grace came in March when Russia vetoed the renewal of a committee known as the Panel of Experts, which was tasked with monitoring and reporting on North Korean sanctions violations....
Ukrainian troops now up to 30km inside Russia, Moscow says (www.bbc.com)
