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Germany likely to pass 50% mark for renewable power this year - minister (www.reuters.com)

BERLIN, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Germany is likely to generate more than 50% of its power from renewable energy this year but needs to ramp up the speed of its transition towards the end of the decade, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday.

Tankie admins continue to waste their time by banning users who are already defederated, meaning none of these users could post anyway—also some genocide denialism and being proud of an echo-chamber (sh.itjust.works)

Tankies on democracy... There's a bit too much to make separate posts, so it'll just be a collection in the comments. (sh.itjust.works)

Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike (qz.com)

Bill Maher announced that his Real Time would be back "sans writers or writing"...

Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 15 Pre-Orders (www.macrumors.com)

Apple's online store is down ahead of iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro pre-orders, which are expected to be available at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time in the...

Spanish police arrest man for groping reporter while on air (www.aljazeera.com)

Police union leader said woman killed by Seattle officer ‘had limited value’ (www.theguardian.com)

Daniel Auderer denies wrongdoing, claiming he ‘intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers’

College Kids Are Easily Bypassing Stupid University TikTok Bans (www.techdirt.com)

We’ve noted a few times how the political push to ban TikTok is a dumb performance largely designed to distract people from our failure to pass even a basic internet privacy law or regulate data brokers. We’ve also noted how college bans of TikTok are a dumb extension of that dumb performance, and don’t accomplish anything...

I like to watch (lemmy.zip)

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)

Judge Orders Louisiana to Remove Children from Angola Prison by September 15 (www.aclu.org)

Monkey photo on ID activates Philippine SIM cards, exposing loophole in new law vs scammers (www.straitstimes.com)

Star Citizen reaches $600 million raised but the game future is really worrying (gamerkick.com)

Low Sodium Starfield (sopuli.xyz)

Come join us to talk about the new Bethesda game Starfield. There has been some angry people who set really high expectations for the game and now are mad the game didn’t meet their fake expectations....

The Iraqi YouTube star killed by her father (www.bbc.com)

Young, vibrant and bubbly, YouTuber Tiba al-Ali became a hit with her fun-loving videos about her life....

Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide (apnews.com)

China orders government workers to stop using iPhones amid heightened tensions with US (www.scmp.com)

A handful of Chinese ministries have told employees to stop using Apple’s iPhones at work, citing national security risks amid heightened geopolitical tensions with the United States, according to several people familiar with the matter....

Australian lawmakers head to US to lobby against efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Assange (apnews.com)

Europe's carmakers fret over China's EV prowess at Munich car show (www.reuters.com)

Main points (to make up for the clickbaity title):...

Wayland and screen savers (www.jwz.org)

Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that’s kind of a problem....

AI text detectors tend to flag text from non-native speakers as AI generated (scitechdaily.com)

In a study recently published in the journal Patterns, researchers demonstrate that computer algorithms often used to identify AI-generated text frequently falsely label articles written by non-native language speakers as being created by artificial intelligence. The researchers warn that the unreliable performance of these AI...