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Dial Tone

Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.

Someone call CPS. (lemmy.world)

Maybe we can get good IPv6 support now (lemmy.world)

sidn.nl/…/cgnat-frustrates-all-ip-address-based-t…

Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/91685...

Warnings meant to last 10,000 years (lemmy.world)

President Biden hilariously sports Chiefs helmet during team's White House visit (www.nbcnewyork.com)

TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.

The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive (www.theregister.com)

In case you ever wondered the M1 is safe to operate in a school zone (lemm.ee)

What if the great filter of humanity is to overcome it's own nature that made it the dominant species of the planet and what if that is the universal great filter that makes the cosmos silent

What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? (kbin.social)

As I've gotten older as a player, I have found myself dropping some eras of gaming that I used to be nostalgic for. One of them is the 8-bit era, the NES days. I have played some of the best that system had to offer and I will never say that system didn't have any good games....

Believe what you see, not what you’re told (sh.itjust.works)

USB tunneling (lemmy.ml)

Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default (uk.pcmag.com)

Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager....

Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15741608...

Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard (www.thedailybeast.com)

A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff....

AI Suggestions (programming.dev)

Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website

Hi!...

Yep (files.catbox.moe)

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...