Happy 32nd Birthday, Linux! (9to5linux.com)
It’s August 25th and it’s Linux’s 32nd birthday, so join me in celebrating the birthday of Linux for those of you who celebrate it on this day with a glass of good champagne and a delicious cake!...
Austria offers festivalgoers free public transport for a year if they get a tattoo (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1891336...
Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises (learnbyexample.github.io)
Hello!...
Florida school district apologizes for assembly singling out Black students over low test scores (www.nbcnews.com)
Teachers told a group of Black elementary schoolers that having lower grades gave them a higher chance of going to jail, getting shot or getting killed, parents said.
Just saw this HILARIOUS image my grandson showed me (lemm.ee)
That orange cat is so funny
Nixa woman uses spicy tortilla chip to start house fire, police say (www.ozarksfirst.com)
“The report states that witnesses inside the house saw Williams pour gasoline from a soda bottle onto clothes and the floor of the laundry room. Williams then lit Takis tortilla chips on fire and tossed them into the laundry room.”
Boston.com: Visitors blocked a Vermont road just to see this wooden troll. Now no one can view it. (www.boston.com)
Denuvo by Irdeto now registered as authorized Nintendo Switch™ middleware (irdeto.com)
And here we go. Expect your C-tier AAA games to have Denuvo on Switch, stopping players from emulating it.
Appearing in Georgia, one day only.....DON TRUMP. (lemm.ee)
The new Teflon don thought he was untouchable but he’s falling just like others before him by the RICO laws made famous in the 80’s by his lawyer and number 2 defendent who is in his 80’s Rudy Guliani.
Justice Dept. brings wave of cases over $836 million in alleged covid fraud (www.washingtonpost.com)
In one of the largest national crackdowns on fraud targeting federal coronavirus aid, the Justice Department on Wednesday said it had brought 718 law enforcement actions in connection with the alleged theft of more than $836 million....
IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes (arstechnica.com)
BRICS summit: Leaders eye expansion, common currency (www.dw.com)
Xi calls for accelerating BRICS expansion...
We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse (www.thenation.com)
Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te... (newrepublic.com)
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te…::Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and...
Ads are coming to TikTok search results (www.theverge.com)
How Mozilla Ruined Firefox (invidious.lunar.icu)
Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla’s terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.
Linguist, an ultimate translation browser extension (vitonsky.net)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1927197...
"Automated Racism": China's Hikvision still sells Uyghur-tracking surveillance cameras, powered by America's Nvidia (ipvm.com)
Despite assurances for years that Hikvision has stopped minority analytics, just 7 months ago local PRC authorities awarded a $6 million contract that explicitly requires Hikvision analytics to identify Uyghurs (维族), powered by NVIDIA hardware, security specialist IPVM says.
Uncharted's Tom Holland and Chris Pratt Teaming Up for Jak and Daxter Movie Adaptation (www.gamescensor.com)
India: Christians Attacked and Bible Torn in Church Attack in Delhi During Sunday Service (thewire.in)
A 100-strong mob surrounded the police station in Delhi’s GTB Nagar for several hours and raised provocative slogans as the pastor and injured persons reached to file their complaint.