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Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact (arstechnica.com)

Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.

K-9s will be used in random classroom screenings, Florida school district officials announce (www.clickorlando.com)

You can be banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone for calling out transphobia

I recently made a new account on lemmy.blahaj.zone, because I’ve been harassed and doxxed on my old account and I wanted a fresh start with a more lighthearted online identity that I could be more open about my gender identity on. I’d heard blahaj zone was good for trans people, so I made my account there. And yeah,...

Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer (www.youtube.com)

What would you do with an extra 1000€ a month?

understanding games is a form of systemic analysis (lemmy.ml)

many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects

Doing things in games because it simple felt good.

I’ve been thinking about the PS1 game ‘Driver’ a lot recently. It’s a game I spent a lot of time on during my youth, and whilst I’m sure it doesn’t hold up some 20 years later, it was still a highlight from my ‘gaming youth’....

One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it (www.theverge.com)

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public (abcnews.go.com)

A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden

Pet owners with talkative pets, what will they talk about?

Shots fired (infosec.pub)

WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks!

What a sweet deal! Thanks Hello Fresh!...

Scientology is on the brink of killing an entire medical industry (www.thedailybeast.com)

By systematically targeting electroconvulsive therapy as part of its war on psychiatry, experts say Scientology could decimate a treatment that is “saving so many lives.”...

What's your favourite country and why?

Consider me a weeb but I like Japan, it has some truly beautiful nature and cuisines to try across the country....

Patreon will have to use Apple's in-app purchase system or be removed from the App Store (www.engadget.com)

Fuck-up Assessment Form (sh.itjust.works)

OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)

Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?

I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x

After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn’t know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find...