Crazy fact (lemmy.today)
League of Legends likely unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck soon due to Vanguard anti-cheat (www.gamingonlinux.com)
These cows have earmuffs, your argument is invalid (lemmy.world)
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission is about to start winding down a program that gives $30 monthly broadband discounts to people with low incomes, and says it will have to complete the shutdown by May if Congress doesn’t provide more funding.
US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army (www.bloomberg.com)
China missiles filled with water, not fuel: US intelligence...
A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive (www.wired.com)
A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive::Biotech company Contraline has safely implanted a sperm-blocking hydrogel in 23 men. It’s designed to be a fully reversible vasectomy.
Leave it alone (lemmyf.uk)
Linux tablet?
What’s the best tablet to install Linux on? I am looking for something affordable (under $200) and light just to use a PDF reader with MEGA sync.
Should archaeologists cover Pompeii back up when they're done with it?
Does anyone use a diet, fitness, food tracker that you like?
It’s time for the annual “look how much weight I gained over the holidays 😞”, and New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Does anyone use a food and exercise tracker app on their Android device? How is your experience with it?
Nobara 39 Officially Released (nobaraproject.org)
Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article....
Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?
I’m planning to set up proper backups for my server, but I’m not sure which software to use. I’ve looked for solutions with encryption, compressed, incremental backups. These seem to be the best options:...
Instagram Users Shown Transphobia As Promotional Tool To Join Threads (neuromatch.social)
The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you....
Super weird error, what's happening? (lemmy.zip)
I’m not sure if this is the best community to post in, but I just bought a used computer and slotted in an RX480 as the GPU. I installed KDE Neon 5.27 on it, and it worked flawlessly for 2 days....
With AI scraping everything, would it make sense to add copyright notices to comments on the fediverse? CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed
Artists have complained about their artwork being stolen, people are arguing about threads.net stealing their data on despite this being a public forum, Reddit, Twitter, Github and other platforms are putting up walls to to stop AI bots from scraping everything....
62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, as holiday spending, credit card debt rise (www.cnbc.com)
Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days (www.eurogamer.net)
Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages at 'Stupid People' She Has To Work With (www.newsweek.com)
Biden administration pleads with states after millions of kids lose Medicaid coverage (www.politico.com)
According to HHS, nine states are responsible for 60 percent of children’s coverage losses between March and September....
We're not the same! (period) (programming.dev)
Me when my friends complain about Twitter/X being a cesspool (sh.itjust.works)
Another post by Fediverse gang
IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says (edition.cnn.com)
OpenAI Suspends ByteDance's Account After It Used GPT To Train Its Own AI Model (slashdot.org)
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has been secretly using OpenAI’s technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM). “This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the AI world,” writes The Verge’s Alex Heath. “It’s also in direct violation of OpenAI’s terms of service, which state that...
Does an unfulfilled promise become a lie?
Idea / Question about tiling window managers (discuss.tchncs.de)
First of all: Please don’t tell me how impractically this might be or confusing or whatever. This is like a thought experiment and let’s be honest: We don’t JUST want efficiency when modding our desktops – we also want it to look sick and individual and have people watch in admiration – or something like that. So keep...
