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In-N-Out bans mask wearing for employees in some states (www.cnn.com)

In-N-Out employees in five US states will no longer be allowed to wear masks as part of new company guidelines that “emphasize the importance of customer service,” notably showing their smiles, according to a new policy issued by the fast food chain.

Is there a Decentralised Spotify / Music Platform Alternative?

So I know about Mastodon, Lemmy / Kbin, PeerTube, and Element but is there a Fediverse alternative to Music & Podcasts (preferably one that doesn’t connect to Crypto)

AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)

“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...

I wish people would write some descriptions for their communities

I often browse /all, come across a post that looks interesting but I have no clue what’s it about, so I check the sidebar - and all I find is “An unofficial Lemmy community for X”, " A place to discuss everything about X", or the best kind, “A continuation of r/X from Reddit”....

I designed a keyboard for my phone. Ask me anything :) (youtu.be)

It’s all free (if you make it yourself) and open source....

Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week (www.nbcnews.com)

A lightbulb on top of an iPad (OC) (i.imgur.com)

Which lightweight Linux Distribution with GUI would you recommend for an old Laptop ?

I have an old Subnotebook (at least 10 years old I think) which runs Windows 7 atm. I would like to run Linux on it. I‘m a Linux noob, but would like to try and learn a few things. Any recommendations?

Does anyone use Bing for their search engine?

I feel like it’s dying and the people I know say they use Google or duck duck go.

Can you please ELI5 tmux?

I am fairly familiar with Linux, I’ve been using different distros for some years now and have done some config editing here and there. I am also a web developer and use the terminal quite a lot and so I always stumble on people’s recommendation to use tmux and how good it is, but I never really understood what it does and,...

People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar (lemmy.world)

Title....

Are we under attack?

The website icon has changed, name changed to Israel, and the site title now includes a slur....

What is everyone's favorite era of starship design?

I’m personally a big fan of the late TMP designs like the Excelsior and Centaur, what do you guys like?

Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)

What are some fun songs to sing karaoke to?

I’ve seen lists of songs with deep lyrics, songs that are upbeat but depressing at the same time, songs not on the radio, and other things like that… But I have never seen a list of songs that are just super fun to sing....

some might say we're early adopters (i.imgur.com)

Preparing for Future Corporate Influence

The Fediverse as it stands now is super ambitious, prospering, and honestly really exciting to see and be a part of....

Do you feel that there's a lack of discussion on Lemmy on stuff besides the current Reddit and Twitter controversies?

I’ve been on Beehaw and Lemmy.world for the past two weeks now and while people seem to be posting content that isn’t about Reddit or Twitter or how great federated platforms are, such content does not receive as many comments/discussion as topics about the Reddit API controversy, or the current Twitter controversy, etc....