What tv show had a big impact on you?
For me, its Xena....
True next-gen graphics (feddit.de)
Todd Howard: “You may need to upgrade your PC for this game”
Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool (arstechnica.com)
Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn’t control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.
Landlord charged with hate crime, accused of stabbing 6-year-old tenant to death allegedly because family is Muslim (www.cnn.com)
Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’ (www.al.com)
Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.
Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s (www.politico.eu)
No tritium found in fish one month after Fukushima water release (www.japantimes.co.jp)
No detectable amount of tritium has been found in fish samples taken from waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where the discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea began a month ago, the government said Monday....
Grocery stores should have food banks
Instead of the perfectly-fine “expired” food going to the dumpster, feed people. Help the community.
Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2514293
If there is one thing you can change about Lemmy, what would it be?
'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits. (www.thepinknews.com)
‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.::undefined
Do you think bad weather is a good reason for moving?
Would you uproot your life, leaving behind your family, your job etc if you dont like the weather in a country....
What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand? (sh.itjust.works)
Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and...
China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why? (www.independent.co.uk)
China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. What is the map, and why is it upsetting people so much?...
iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)
GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room (hackaday.com)
Starfield has housing system, player jail, and more reveals Bethesda in new Q&A (www.eurogamer.net)
Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000 (electrek.co)
Hello, World!
First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds (www.wired.com)
Meta conducted an experiment where thousands of users were shown chronological feeds on Facebook and Instagram for three months. Users of the chronological feeds engaged less with the platforms and were more likely to use competitors like YouTube and TikTok. This suggests that users prefer algorithmically ranked feeds that show...
Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This” (hard-drive.net)
Aging gamers were reportedly delighted to see that a new video game called Eldric Quest has accessibility features catered specifically to people their age who do not have enough time to actually play a video game....
I lost my job to ChatGPT and was made obsolete. I was out of work for 3 months before taking a new job passing out samples at grocery stores. (www.businessinsider.com)
Linux for Microsoft Surface devices. It is reality! (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)
I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I...
Lawyers for ‘Rust’ armourer move to get case dismissed after Baldwin trial collapses (www.independent.co.uk)
TIL "How do you dress?" means "Which pants leg do you put your penis down?" (www.realmenrealstyle.com)
So the tailor doesn’t touch your penis when they’re measuring you
