Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition (apnews.com)
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday....
Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app (stackdiary.com)
I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?
I’ve searched around and mostly seen people create custom radiator builds attached to their water supply, but that’s beyond my skill level and I’m not sure if linking it directly to the water supply via piping would violate the lease or not. Are there any solutions a bit more DIY that I could take advantage of?
Americans Show Heightened Concern About Antisemitism (news.gallup.com)
Do you like America? Why or why not?
He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000 (apnews.com)
Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday....
Explaining software development methods by flying to Mars
The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world.
Look what I got to spend my birthday money on! (lemmy.world)
At the risk of once again being told what an idiot I am, healthcare in America sucks. Thanks for the present though, mom. We need all the help we can get....
It's like the Bacon game, but funnier (sh.itjust.works)
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
Anon is your financial advisor (sh.itjust.works)
Why doesn't the military do this? are they stupid? (lemmy.world)
Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could’ve been the most popular sims alternative, but it’s suddenly been cancelled.
How do you like to tell people about the fediverse?
It’s been difficult to broach the subject and explain the technical concepts to the average person. I did have some success in first sharing the email comparison, which lead into interoperability....
New polling shows most Americans and Europeans want the Ukraine war to come to an end.
instituteforglobalaffairs.org/…/IGA-Modeling-Demo…
In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!
One of the biggest topics of these days is that of mods in lemmy.ml banning and censoring people because they’re Tankies. This has had a rather sizeable discussion of people agreeing and even arguing for defederating ml. I’m sure a lot of people are arguing from good intentions, but there’s also bad faith actors among...
How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? (www.wired.com)
Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)
Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...
Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)
New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an “AI powered” alt-text generator....
Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)
“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”
The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones (x.com)
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Remove text on TPE phone case? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
Hi. When I got a new phone a couple weeks ago, it came with this really nice, name-brand (not giving names here) phone case. It’s really rugged and feels great on the hands. It’s also one of the most premium phone-case options out there....