Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

A funder for 'Sound of Freedom,' a QAnon-adjacent film about child sex trafficking, has been charged with accessory to child kidnapping (www.insider.com)

Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS) to keep your block list up to date (github.com)

Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances....

Ad blockers are a must (lemmy.ml)

Mexican president urges end to 'irrational' Ukraine war, wants Russia at peace talks (www.reuters.com)

NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine (www.forbes.com)

Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.

Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

Notes taking app

I’m looking for a good notes taking app to replace The Bad Ones like Evernote....

Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/834308...

After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)

The NYC subway is using AI to detect fare dodgers (www.theverge.com)

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)

Apple has deployed a system called Private Access Tokens that allows web servers to verify if a device is legitimate before granting access. This works by having the browser request a signed token from Apple proving the device is approved. While this currently has limited impact due to Safari’s market share, there are concerns...

What inaccurate historical factoid do you just go with?

In Phoenix, 4.5 million residents are living in hell: this is life at 113°F degrees (45 °C) for more than 20 days (english.elpais.com)

Do you store all your media? And how?

For a piracy-oriented community I’m surprised this isn’t discussed as much....

Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway (techcrunch.com)

Reddit is a dead site running (dbzer0.com)

Toyota claims battery with range of 745 miles, charges in 10 minutes (www.theguardian.com)

YSK: You can block communities from appearing on your "All" feed. just go to the website of your instance, pull up the community, and click "block community" (On mobile click "Sidebar" first") (thelemmy.club)

Why YSK: You may dislike, disagree with, or be tired of certain communities and don’t want them in your feed.

Fuck Reddit u̶p̶v̶o̶t̶e̶ boost party! (kbin.social)

The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!

Steam Summer Sale: Hidden Gem/ Recommendations thread

Hey all. Always enjoyed reading everyone's suggestions on more unknown games available during big steam sales....

I like C programs for their speed (lemmy.world)

Donald Trump rally shooting being probed as assassination attempt: AP sources (www.cp24.com)

What would you do if you were on an underground train, when suddenly the train shook, you passed through a portal, and the next thing you knew your carriage was lying in an unknown new world?

Edit: apparently this is a very common form of Japanese storytelling called an isekai. There are 8 billion people in this world, no idea can be original. And sometimes you miss out on things many other people know. I’m clearly one of today’s lucky 10000.