Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)
Pentagon Announces 'Long-Overdue' Plea Deals With Tortured 9/11 Defendants. (www.commondreams.org)
Outrage as Senate Panel Advances Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill. (www.commondreams.org)
US veteran arrested for role in failed Venezuelan coup. (www.voanews.com)
The mystery of Argentina’s gold: Milei admits that it was transferred abroad, without specifying the quantities or destination (english.elpais.com)
Any neat tmux configurations out there?
Quick background for anyone who doesn’t use tmux or screen: both are utilities that run in terminal that provide a bunch of nifty functionality. The big ones are:...
Cyberattack hits blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood (www.cnn.com)
Venezuela: While US Politicians Call Fraud, American Election Observers Endorse Results (www.mintpressnews.com)
Seeking Active Lemmy Instances Unrelated to Lemmy.world: Advice Needed
Given the ongoing disregard for user feedback and the behavior of some mods on that instance, I think the smartest move is to switch to another instance....
Apple's no longer among top 5 smartphone vendors in China as domestic brands dominate market (www.cnbc.com)
Toyota acknowledges more certification cheating and apologizes (www.ctvnews.ca)
Toyota reported Wednesday more cases of cheating on certification tests for new models required by the Japanese government, on top of those acknowledged earlier....
Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers call for immediate action to reduce methane emissions and avert dangerous escalation in climate crisis...
Dome Keeper just got a massive update that ups replayability and helps generate better worlds (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
A day of chaos in Israel as far-right protesters storm military bases (www.axios.com)
Hamas and Iran say Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran. (forward.com)
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Some Ohio residents can now get $25,000 for injuries in $600 million train derailment settlement (apnews.com)
People who live near East Palestine, Ohio, can now get $25,000 apiece for any injuries they sustained after last year’s Norfolk Southern freight train derailment on top of whatever money they get for property damage as part of the $600 million class-action settlement....
Florida mom is removed from school district job after letting trans daughter play volleyball (www.advocate.com)
Senate overwhelmingly passes package of bills aimed at protecting kids and teens online (abcnews.go.com)
Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle lawsuit alleging it illegally captured users’ faces (therecord.media)
Israeli soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested, sparking far-right riot: Minister among Israelis storming military bases in solidarity with the suspects (www.middleeasteye.net)
Are SW design patterns guilty until proven otherwise?
I started writing this as an answer to someone on some discord, but it would not fit the channel topic, but I’d still love to see people’s views on this....
TIL Michael Richards (Kramer) was drafted into the US army and stationed in West Germany. He used the GI Bill to get a drama degree.
Richards graduated from Thousand Oaks High School. In 1968, he appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game, but was not chosen for the date. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1970. He trained as a medic and was stationed in West Germany where he was a member of a theatrical group called The Training Road Show.[12] He...
Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
A massive settlement between Meta and Texas has been reached over the ‘Tag Suggestions’ feature Facebook added for photos more than a decade ago.
Bangladesh social media censorship leads to over 7000% increase in VPN usage (www.techradar.com)
People in Bangladesh have turned en masse to the VPN apps to bypass ongoing internet restrictions in the aftermath of widespread anti-government protests....
