VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming (news.itsfoss.com)
Senator Bernie Sanders Report Warns Nearly Half of Older Americans 'Have No Retirement Savings' (www.commondreams.org)
Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.forbes.com)
It looks like Duck Duck Go is down at the moment. What is your second choice for privacy respecting search? (kbin.social)
As asked.
Mongolian. Like the barbecue. (startrek.website)
YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers (arstechnica.com)
Fake news, fake penis... (startrek.website)
Thank you Lemmy! (lemmy.world)
I finally managed to install Lineage os on this HTC One (m8) thanks to the help of Lemmy!
Why is TikTok seen as privacy invading and bad, but Facebook is fine?
I’m not here to claim that Tiktok is completely harmless, or that it’s even a good site. I’m sure they absolutely do collect as much personal information as they can, and I’m sure they give it to the Chinese government whenever they ask. But I don’t understand how Meta and Facebook are meant to be any better? There’s...
Biden says he is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 Americans (www.cbsnews.com)
President Biden announced Friday that his administration is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 borrowers, marking the latest round of debt cancellation since the Supreme Court voided the president’s student loan forgiveness program....
(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...
"Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer (sh.itjust.works)
Source: Oxfam
The Supreme Court declines to step into the fight over bathrooms for transgender students (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district....
Americans can no longer afford their cars (www.newsweek.com)
Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?
If I’m talking to an English speaker from outside of the US, is there any confusion if I say “soccer”?...
Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time (fortune.com)
Well that's one way to ruin my day (lemmy.world)
U.S. retailers admit they lied about shoplifting, retail crime again (boingboing.net)
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas (apnews.com)
Elon Musk to advertisers boycotting X: "Go f**k yourself" (www.axios.com)
Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday....
[Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why (odysee.com)
I value this meme at eleventy billion and won't take a cent less (lemmy.world)
How to choose a computer/laptop/device that is better compatible with linux? Are there certain things to look out for when shopping?
I apologize if this has been asked a ton, still migrating to lemmy. Still stuck on crappy reddit out of habbit, but i’ve found the lemmy universe to be much more helpful....
Heavily-armed man kills himself, rather than shoot up Colorado amusement park, authorities say (denvergazette.com)
The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th (www.eff.org)
Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services...
