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Astronomers think they’ve found a plausible explanation of the Wow! signal (arstechnica.com)

A smug bastard on a messy desk (lemmy.world)

Bistitchual - A community for mixed and obscure textiles/needlecrafts

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The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana (apnews.com)

Andries Brouwer on the OOM killer (quuxplusone.github.io)

Via Andy Miller (2007), an amusing metaphor for Linux memory overcommit. Originally posted by Andries Brouwer to the linux-kernel mailing list, 2004-09-24, in the thread titled “oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock”:...

The Welsh might be onto something…

Google avoids “link tax” bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI (arstechnica.com)

The U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Just Buying More Time for Israel’s Genocide (theintercept.com)

Breaking this cynical cycle requires getting honest about Biden and Harris’s roles in this blood-soaked charade.

A mysterious file (lemmy.world)

(Solved) Are there any CLI tools that can download videos of websites?

Hiya, so looking to download videos of certain websites. So far been using www.downloadhelper.net extension to download the videos manually, but it turns into a very tedious process after a while. Looking for a way to automate this process :) Let me know if there are any tools, programs or solutions to grab stuff off the...

Vodafone merger ‘could leave 1m Three customers unable to find cheaper deals’ | Mergers and acquisitions | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year (boltsmag.org)

Chicago police are required to document every time they pull someone over. But a new investigation reveals the department is releasing vastly incomplete data to oversight agencies, even as the superintendent pledges reforms....

Is there a way I can reinstall Linux Mint without messing up my Windows Partition?

Long story short I was messing around in the terminal and messed up my Linux Mint Installation and now when I boot into Linux I only get a CLI and don’t even see the Linux mint logo. I tried to restore to a previous state using Timeshift but it did not work so I ended up taking a live usb and backing up all my important...

Anyone know how to make the Finals use my graphics card? (fedia.io)

So i have a problem plsying the Finals on linux. They are clearly garbage graphics. The walls dont even look how they are supposed to and the permanent fog makes it unplayable. The shadowing is too dark. Forget fps, when play on windows and linux it is night and day. Its as if the game isnt using its correct shaders or textures....

'Football fields' of batteries have helped Texas's grid when electricity demand is highest (www.wfaa.com)

Texas sues GM for allegedly violating drivers' privacy (www.reuters.com)

Aug 13 (Reuters) - General Motors (GM.N), has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the automaker of installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other companies without drivers’ consent.

Jawgs

Dorm hallway

Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat (www.nytimes.com)

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Is connection from home server to cloudflare HTTPS or HTTP when using cloudflare tunnel?

I had self-hosted services on a Raspberry Pi using Docker in my college room. Since I couldn’t set up port forwarding, I couldn’t enable HTTPS for them. I know that I can still have https without port forwarding but it is not straightforward and difficult for me. And, I used cloudflare tunnel to access them from outside my...