I've got banned from Apex Legends
Got greeted with this message today. I’ve been playing Apex on linux for more than a year. Not sure if this could be related? Is this just me?...
Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school (www.the-independent.com)
10-year-old girl in Japan becomes youngest person certified to prepare poisonous pufferfish — a delicacy that can be deadly (www.cbsnews.com)
A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare “fugu” pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed....
UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London (archive.md)
A private school in London is opening the UK’s first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology allows for precise, bespoke learning while critics argue AI teaching will lead to a “soulless, bleak future”....
My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. (lemmy.world)
The game is Word Cookies by Bitmango. I contacted them but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it was just an oversight, but it still pissed me off.
Any good games that break the mold
It feels like new games are just more of the same, with no real meaning. However I recently started playing “Return of the Obra Dihn” and love open ended deduction in it. It feels like I’m actually figuring things out by myself without being handheld through it. Are there any other games that don’t coddle the player that...
Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
spreading misinformation online (javascript??)
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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public (www.cnn.com)
Black Myth: Wukong launches to almost 1.5 million concurrent players on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
SteamDB chart showing 1.4 million people playing now
How to catch houseflies?
The weather has finally warmed up here and now there plenty of super annoying houseflies. They’re way to fast to swat and have an annoying habit of landing on you....
Ukrainian troops now up to 30km inside Russia, Moscow says (www.bbc.com)
Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown (arstechnica.com)
Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?...
Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me?
For the longest time, “liberal” seemed like it basically just meant “Democrat” the same way “conservative” has/had been used to mean “Republican.” Now, it seems like it means “bad Democrat” and is even worse than being MAGA the way many seem to use it. Where did its use as an insult within the [relative]...
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI (www.404media.co)
archive.is/…/nvidia-ai-scraping-foundational-mode…
Bella Hadid's Adidas advert dropped after Israeli criticism (www.bbc.com)
(Israel’s influence is insane)
Anon goes on a date (sh.itjust.works)
Israel bombs 6th UN-run school in Gaza in 10 days, kills dozens (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel’s military has bombed another United Nations-run school as well as an Israeli-designed “safe-zone” in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 42 Palestinians and wounding dozens of others, according to Palestinian officials....
Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop
I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it’s running way too slow....
New York bridge gets stuck open after getting too hot (www.bbc.com)
Third Avenue Bridge, which connects New York’s the Bronx to Manhattan, got stuck in an open position due to the high heat on Monday....
AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law (gizmodo.com)
Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it (walledculture.org)
Can I install linux on this?
I found this netbook(?) somewhere in old things and just wonder: can linux be installed on it?