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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)

The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)

what? (feddit.nl)

Alternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlin (binaryfork.com)

Just like the operating system on your computer & cell phone, you can change the software running on your router.

Afghanistan: Taliban burn musical instruments (www.dw.com)

Taliban’s religious police reportedly burned a number of musical instruments in the western province of Herat, according to a Sunday report by the state-run news agency Bakhtar....

Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban (www.techspot.com)

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Child Safety on Federated Social Media (purl.stanford.edu)

Not the best news in this report. We need to find ways to do more.

'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security (abc7news.com)

Foreign LLC continues to acquire land in California critical to energy and national defense....

Paramount Plus just dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early (www.theverge.com)

If you’re a Paramount Plus subscriber, you can go watch Boimler of Lower Decks geek out over the cast of Strange New Worlds right now.

So why is .ml TLD going back to Mali taking everyone by surprise?

Was there some sort of assurance that nothing was going to happen when the contract expired, and this expectation was changed? Freenom hasn’t been registering domains since Jan 1....

What happens if you lose all citizenship?

This godforsaken country is introducing the bill that allows to strip people of birth-given russian citizenship for some things - like desertion and discreditation of army (which happens every time you question war)...

Do you have plans for the fall? (derp.foo)

screeches

www.instagram.com/p/C9kGon7sK_n/

Virginia is shrinking! (lemmy.world)

Microsoft to Copyright Pi, Found to Contain Entire Arial Font (sebastiancarlos.com)

Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence (www.ft.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18088686...

Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid (apnews.com)

The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

Zelenskyy: Seeing children die makes me want to kill Putin (english.nv.ua)

Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones (www.techspot.com)

Microsoft has told all its employees in China that they will soon only be allowed to use iPhones for work purposes. The ban on Android devices is part of a security-related Microsoft initiative for providing a unified way of managing and verifying employee identities....

Rishi Sunak has announced he will step down as the leader of the Conservatives after a historic battering by Labour in the General Election (metro.co.uk)

Adopting a stray cat (sh.itjust.works)

Trump Suggests Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunny (www.theatlantic.com)

What is the functional difference between the President having immunity for “official acts” and the powers granted to the German President under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution?

For reference: Article 48 WikipediaI’m trying to understand how anyone with any knowledge of the history of dictators could possibly justify granting a president unchecked “official” power so if anyone has any actual theories I am ALL ears.