What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?
European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches (www.politico.eu)
Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....
Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says (www.thepinknews.com)
Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at NHS England gender identity clinics in a new “blow” to gender-affirming healthcare....
If you could split yourself into a copy of yourself, how many copies would you make to satisfy all your wishes?
You can regularly sync your memories with your copies (either one way or both ways)
Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’ (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown (arstechnica.com)
Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/6302705
You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life? (lemmy.world)
Will Microsoft drop the TPM requirement for Win 11 once Win 12 rolls around?
Or maybe they will launch Win 12 with optional TPM support....
Who was worse, George W. Bush or Donald Trump?
Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.
Yesterday the price of electricity in Finland was negative 1.5 cents / kWh
It’s still not earning you money to spend electricity because you still have to pay the transfer fee which is around 6 cents / kWh but it’s pretty damn cheap nevertheless, mostly because of the excess in wind energy....
Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say (www.ksat.com)
A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.
Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after shots fired at his Pennsylvania rally (www.nbcnews.com)
What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
California is about to tax guns more like alcohol and tobacco − and that could put a dent in gun violence (theconversation.com)
What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)
How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
The race for "Worst Dumpster Fire" is heating up. Everyone place your bets! (lemmy.ml)
Iranian Engineer Who Protested Forced Hijab Sentenced to 74 Lashes (iranwire.com)
Microsoft to Force Web Links Shared in Teams to Open with Microsoft Edge (lemmy.world)
Just got this right before midnight in my MS Admin app alerts. If you dont configure the policy, in September it defaults to opening web links in Edge regardless of OS default browser setting....
What thing are you exponentially more experienced in than the average person?
What is the best skill you possess that makes you stand above the average person?
Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline (www.nbcnews.com)
I’m in a park. The grass is being mown by a robot. (lemmy.world)
We thought the rider fell off or something and it was going to crash. Then it turned and kept mowing. Park Roomba!...
Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience (www.youtube.com)
Spoiler: GNOME wins...