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Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade (arstechnica.com)

Wait what was it again? hmm 🤔 (reddthat.com)

not literally 2 miliseconds, but you get the point

There are identical twins out there whose parents confused one with the other and now they living their life with the name of the other sibling, never noticing because it doesn't make any difference.

Recommended FLAC converter?

I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I...

Zoom orders workers back to the office (www.bbc.co.uk)

A company that achieved success due to people having to WFH are now forcing staff back in to the office

Pirating games you own?

This might seem stupid, but hear me out....

YSK: The Dark Knight came out 15 years ago and you are not young anymore (lemmy.one)

July 15th 2008

China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day (www.telegraph.co.uk)

also bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the internet from 10pm to 6am....

Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime (torrentfreak.com)

Absolutely Boggling (lemmy.world)

edit: This is actually an edited image I found years ago. I find the low poly bunnies slightly more funny than the original, which had skeletons....

Youtube frontpage in 2023 (discuss.tchncs.de)

A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district (www.theguardian.com)

After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit

Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered.

With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and...

TIL Prank-loving Jill Biden once stuffed herself into the overhead bin of Airforce 2 (thehill.com)

If artificial intelligence uses your work, it should pay you (wapo.st)

Is FOSS really safe?

I’m note a programmer. I Don’t Understand Codes. How do I Know If An Open Source Application is not Stealing My Data Or Passwords? Google play store is scanning apps. It says it blocks spyware. Unfortunately, we know that it was not very successful. So, can we trust open source software? Can’t someone integrate their own...

Spotify raises premium subscription price for millions (www.bbc.co.uk)

Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

Hot take incoming. Just some thoughts I’ve been having recently as I experience Linux at work for several years now. To clarify, I mean Linux on the desktop as a consumer. As in, what our lord and savior Richard M. Stallman would call “GNU/Linux”; pick your favorite distro here. I’m leaving out Linux on the server,...