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Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload (www.gamescensor.com)

Most of the Texas border buoys, installed to deter migrants, are in Mexican territory, study shows (www.nbcnews.com)

XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support (www.phoronix.com)

tl;dr support for disabling VSync on Wayland with X11 apps (most games)

Will lemmy implement veilid? (www.google.com)

Recently cult of the dead cow came out with veilid, a secure decentralised way of sending encrypted information and i think this could be a huge asset to lemmy. Cult of the dead cow even mentions mastadon by name as they say this is the type of application it was designed for. If veilidchat takes off then i really hope the devs...

Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Sea of Stars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Gris, and Firewatch (news.xbox.com)

Firewatch (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 17...

cope + seethe + mald + ratio'd (sh.itjust.works)

Russia’s ‘General Armageddon’ removed from military leadership, under house arrest: Reports (www.politico.eu)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1477311...

Russia fires warning shots at ‘Ukraine-bound’ cargo ship in Black Sea (www.independent.co.uk)

A Russian warship fired warning shots at a dry cargo ship in the Black Sea on Sunday, after the Russian defence ministry said it intercepted the Palau-flagged “Sukru Okan” ship heading towards Ukraine.

Nick Cave Unloads on Musicians Using ChatGPT to Write Songs (futurism.com)

A known AI hater, Nick Cave has once again gone off on OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators being used to mimic real songwriting.

Pro-Voting Groups Challenge Michigan’s Voter Transportation Ban in New Lawsuit (www.democracydocket.com)

On Friday, Aug. 11, pro-voting groups filed a lawsuit challenging a Michigan statute that makes it a misdemeanor to “hire a motor vehicle” to transport voters to the polls unless they are “physically unable to walk.” According to the lawsuit, which was filed in state court, “no other state has an equivalent...

NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For August 2023 (www.phoronix.com)

In the end the new GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card ended out just slightly above the Radeon RX 7600 in terms of overall performance. The Radeon RX 6000/7000 series on their open-source Linux GPU driver stack continue to perform very competitively with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series and their respective proprietary driver...

Global rice prices surge close to 12-year highs, and could rise even more (www.cnbc.com)

[Corp Blog] AnonAddy has rebranded as addy.io (addy.io)

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No quick fix to reverse ‘astonishing’ Antarctic sea ice loss: Scientists (www.aljazeera.com)

Oversight Agency Says DHS Needs To Stop Screwing Around And Accurately Track Use Of Force By Officers (www.techdirt.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1174576...

'It’s like I’m worthless’: Troubleshooters investigate patient dumping allegations (www.wave3.com)

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, was passed in 1986 as a federal anti-dumping law. It mandates “patients who present to a hospital emergency department”… “must undergo an appropriate medical screening examination by a physician”… “to determine whether they have an emergency medical...

Veterans see historic expansion of benefits for toxic exposure as new law nears anniversary (apnews.com)

I made a bitwarden-cli wrapper so it's actually usable - Feddit.ro (feddit.ro)

edit: here is the link so it’s more easily accessible

archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet (gyrovague.com)

The LK-99 “superconductor” went viral — here’s what the experts think (www.theverge.com)

LK-99 has been touted as a potential room-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize fields like energy and transportation. However, many experts are skeptical as the initial research papers have not been peer-reviewed and contain inconsistencies and imprecisions. Early attempts to replicate LK-99 have had mixed...