Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' (www.pcgamer.com)
Speaking with Game File (users will encounter a paywall) at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Larian director of publishing Michael Douse gave his take on the current state of the industry, including some sharp criticism on the wave after wave of mass layoffs we’ve been seeing....
Wirecard fugitive helped run Russian spy operations across Europe (libranet.de)
archive.ph/TrCZF...
Explicit sync (zamundaaa.github.io)
tl;dr this Wayland protocol will implement explicit sync in a standardised way which means better Wayland performance and compatibility with Nvidia cards in particular...
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
RFK Jr. can't win. But he and Cornel West could put Trump back in the White House. (www.usatoday.com)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13942559...
Trump says going to jail for gag order violation would be a 'great honor,’ compares himself to Mandela (www.cnbc.com)
TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 (www.ign.com)
Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...
Mexico cuts ties with Ecuador after embassy raid (www.dw.com)
How do you guys grind your coffee? (kbin.social)
I just retrofitted my basic hand crank mill with a 10mm nut, and drove it with a drill. It's so much faster now, but I do wonder if there's actual properly motorized versions of what I just did.
EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility (www.windowscentral.com)
I dockerized my Nextcloud (github.com)
For years I’ve been running my Nextcloud on bare metal. Now I finally decided to switch it to docker. I looked into Nextcloud All-In-One and it seems easy to deploy but it lacks configuration options like multiple domain names and putting it behind a traefik reverse proxy is kind of a pain to set up....
US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to stage military drills in disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)
The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm....
Germany: Violent crime reaches 15-year high — report (www.dw.com)
Germany recorded a large rise in violent crime in 2023, the first year without pandemic restrictions, police statistics published Saturday showed....
Apple allows music apps to offer payments outside App Store in the EU (www.politico.eu)
Tech giant updates its rules on payment alternatives to align with EU antitrust decision....
Baltimore bridge salvage: 'This is a game of Jenga you don't want to lose' (www.bbc.com)
US Army Colonel Estee Pinchasin looks out at the thousands of tonnes of twisted, broken steel and concrete jutting out from the dark waters of Maryland’s Patapsco river, and delivers her assessment: an “unforgiving mangled mess”....
xz backdoor and autotools insanity - FelipeC (felipec.wordpress.com)
Specific DNS servers for specific domain names with systemd-resolved (www.christianfosli.com)
Thoughts on these SATA/M.2-->SATA/2.5" adapters? (feddit.nl)
Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2)....
Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds (www.livescience.com)
48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone
Animal control services in Atlanta suspended as city and county officials snipe over contract (apnews.com)
The dogcatcher may not be coming when Atlanta residents call....
They're multiplying like rabbits. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
How To Test A Package Without Installing It In Linux - OSTechNix (web.archive.org)
In a First, AlmaLinux Patches a Security Hole That Remains Unpatched in Upstream RHEL - FOSS Force (fossforce.com)
Photo : AlmaLinux Day, held on March 18, 2024 in Rust, Germany. Does that mean more Rust in the Linux kernel ? :-)