Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon) (mastodon.social)
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X is suing California over social media content moderation law (www.engadget.com)
X is suing California over social media content moderation law::X, the social media company previously known as Twitter, is suing the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices.
Several Lemmy iOS apps look to have left TestFlight!
I’m currently trying Voyager. Initial impression is that it seems like a great app.
Should you apologize to someone you ghosted before if there is a chance you might run into them?
Say you went out on like 2 dates and said person was too clingy and you ghost em, now you might have to face them due to work. Apologize or not? And if apologize, do it preemptively or upon meeting?...
This is fine (infosec.pub)
Image 2:twitter.com/WSBChairman/…/1692261028644434424?t=X…
You know it to be true (lemmy.world)
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
EFF: Stop the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act (act.eff.org)
Let your Congress-critters know this is not the right thing to do.
Has anyone tried pitching high speed rail to the 65+ crowd like this before? (startrek.website)
Delta flight diverted after passenger reportedly has 'diarrhea all the way through the airplane' (www.foxbusiness.com)
ghostarchive.org/archive/JIecX...
Why does tech reporting seem so bad now?
Is everyone just using AI and not proof reading? I see this a lot lately. Even Tom’s Guide has bad editing, a good example is this article: www.tomsguide.com/news/pixel-8...
This Texas town has about 250 people. It has 50 sworn police officers. (www.khou.com)
KHOU 11 Investigates discovered more than half of the cops in the Coffee City Police Department had been suspended, demoted or fired from their previous jobs....
Blood-Swapping Tech Bro Extends Eternal Youth Ambitions to Penis (jezebel.com)
Bryan Johnson, 45, is shocking his, uhm, Johnson in hopes of never dying? Did I get that right?...
Do you lucid dream?
Nice Unix sticker pack for 1$ with free shipping. (www.stickermule.com)
Many may already know this offer from Sticker Mule, but you can get basic Unix swag really cheaply to stick on a laptop or water bottle....
Hollywood strikes to cost US economy $5 billion-plus amid lost wages, film delays (finance.yahoo.com)
Larian says it’s discussing potential Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is....
Retired Country Singer Tries Clearing ‘Vagrancy Problem’ With His Low-Flying Helicopter (www.404media.co)
Tommy Shane Steiner, a mostly retired country singer, has been flying and landing his private helicopter at an Austin shopping center to “ward off” people who he said were breaking into businesses.
What was taken I cannot get back (lemmy.world)
Russia states they have confirmed Prigozhin’s death, what do you believe happened?
This is a guy who was known to hire body doubles and he had numerous passports.
Japan says no radioactivity found in Fukushima fish, Kyodo reports (www.reuters.com)
Japan’s fisheries agency said on Saturday fish tested in waters around the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant did not contain detectable levels of the radioactive isotope tritium, Kyodo news service reported.
Something's going down tonight (lemmy.world)
>:( (feddit.de)
Having a hard time settling on a VPN
I torrent (on the same PC that I run a Plex server from), but also auto connect on my devices whenever I’m on public wifi, so speed and avoiding blocks/captchas is also important. From what I understand having port forwarding will make a big difference in my torrent transfer speeds and ability to connect to peers....