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Why is DNS still hard to learn? (jvns.ca)

Motorola Razr 40 review - GSMArena (gsmarena.com)

Bolivia challenges global dollar dominance with Chinese yuan, Russian rouble (www.reuters.com)

LA PAZ, July 28 (Reuters) - Bolivia’s government is determined to curb dependence on the U.S. dollar for foreign trade, instead turning to the Chinese yuan, officials said, as Latin American support for alternative currencies grows....

Bolivia Now Trades in China's Yuan Instead of USD (time.com)

I’ve watched DS9 a lot and just noticed these two guys (lemmy.zip)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/831143...

NBC Responds to Report Tina Fey Will Take Over 'SNL' From Lorne Michaels (popculture.com)

US price and wage increases slow further in the latest signs of cooling inflation (apnews.com)

Signs that inflation pressures in the United States are steadily easing emerged Friday in reports that consumer prices rose in June at their slowest pace in more than two years and that wage growth cooled last quarter.

Tesla’s Dieselgate (pluralistic.net)

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song, saying it could undermine freedom of expression (www.theguardian.com)

The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China’s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.

An indepth explanation of how LLMs work with an minimum of jargon (open.substack.com)

TIL Tupac Shakur was considered for the role of Mace Windu in the Prequel Star Wars trilogy. (en.wikipedia.org)

From the Wiki: According to former Death Row Records chief engineer Rick Clifford, George Lucas was eyeing Tupac to star in his return to the “Star Wars” saga. Lucas had asked Jackson to ask Shakur to audition but due to Shakur’s untimely death the role ultimately went to Samuel L. Jackson. The character’s bald...

Happy sysadmin day! (sysadminday.com)

May the uptime be long and the logs without errors (and not just because logging is broken!)

46,000-Year-Old Worm Possibly Revived from Siberian Permafrost (www.scientificamerican.com)

Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts (www.theverge.com)

The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

"I said to fire a warning shot across their nose, NOT UP IT!" (sh.itjust.works)

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make::The AirPods Pro “could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort.”

Blizzard may ban you for using simple mods in Diablo 4 (www.dsogaming.com)

Blizzard has announced that it will ban everyone that uses game-modifying software in Diablo 4, including simple mods.

FTC Seeks Comment on New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA (www.ftc.gov)

Just a thought (lemm.ee)

I mean, if we are making shitposts, let’s make shitposts!...

Road maze stumps drivers in French village (www.euronews.com)

Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)

The bug allows attackers to swipe data from a CPU’s registers. […] the exploit doesn’t require physical hardware access and can be triggered by loading JavaScript on a malicious website.