Setting the record straight (lemmy.today)
Donald Trump Jr. weirdly claims that Hurricane Beryl is nonbinary name (www.advocate.com)
Any MythTV Users Here?
As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I’m still here… recording Live TV, watching films, listening to “me choonz” all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?
what is the worst case scenario that can happen at the presidential debate?
Waiting for the presidential debate feels like waiting for a train to crash. But how bad can it be?...
US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Server for a boat
Good day, friends. Since catching the self-hosting bug, I’ve set up a couple of Proxmox home servers with a bunch of services I enjoy....
Planetary travel guide (lemmy.world)
Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding (www.techradar.com)
Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead
Generally medical professionals do not vouch for using milk for tear gas despite it often being touted. The research seems to suggest they are largely the same in providing relief...
Never know til you go. (lemmy.world)
Disclaimer: Don’t actually do this.
VR support for GNOME Wayland is here! (gitlab.gnome.org)
First Horizon Bank system detects when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it" and plays an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down. (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/4856141...
Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in urn with Roman remains (www.theguardian.com)
Reddish-brown liquid found in untouched 2,000-year-old Roman tomb is a local, sherry-like wine...
Instructions were unclear:gotta be precise with that anotating tool (unfufadoo.net)
"He couldn't even remember me": Trump has "severe memory issues," says author who interviewed him (www.salon.com)
'Mysterious' monolith similar to column seen in 2020 appears in Las Vegas desert: Police (abcnews.go.com)
Don't mess up secure boot with bitlocker
tomshardware.com/…/windows-11-24h2-will-enable-bi…
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
Will AI fully replace human friendship/companionship someday?
Because tbh I don’t see myself and many others getting a partner or anything similar that is “the real deal”. Not gonna lie, if robots were as advanced as they are in sci-fi movies I would had married one and had those as friends....
G7 agrees to loan Ukraine $50 billion from the interest on frozen Russian assets (www.npr.org)
iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....