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Why didn't SBF flee? (lemmy.world)

I was wondering why SBF seemingly behaved like an innocent man. Giving interviews, talking to podcasters, remaining at his residence....

Tech CEO Forced Assistant to Sign 'Sex Slave' Contract, and Tormented Her With Sadomasochistic Bondage, Lawsuit Alleges (themessenger.com)

A former Bay Area tech CEO was fired earlier this year after allegedly enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing his assistant. He claims the pair had a consensual relationship that people would “celebrate” if it were fictitious....

it really makes sense (lemmy.zip)

Just speak normally (startrek.website)

Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (techcrunch.com)

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users::Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks (www.tomshardware.com)

Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks::ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems and found that all three can achieve better gaming performance than Windows 11.

You are now a duck, what do you do first??

You are still you, you can speak human language that you already know, and you know how to speak duck....

Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists (mixmag.net)

School district and The Satanic Temple reach agreement in lawsuit over After School Satan Club (apnews.com)

The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Saucon Valley School District had agreed to pay $200,000 in attorney’s fees and to provide The Satanic Temple and the After School Satan Club it sponsors the same access to school facilities as is provided to other organizations....

Emergency room nurse who committed suicide called US health care system her ‘abuser’ in scathing letter just months before her death (nypost.com)

Tristin Kate Smith, a 28-year-old Ohio nurse, wrote a scathing letter to her “abuser” five months ahead of her August 2023 suicide.

Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation (imgur.com)

Yes, someone actually did this and I found it running on our server

A lot of YAML (jemmy.jeena.net)

Robot Kills Man After Mistaking Him for Box of Vegetables (www.theguardian.com)

'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)

President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results with Google (+ other search engines)

To see the original discussion, you can see this thread: lemmy.ca/post/8488573...

Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect (www.cnbc.com)

Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows (www.businessinsider.com)

Most of the world’s biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk’s X, exclusive new data shows::Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have recently stated that most of the company’s top-spending advertisers from last year have returned.

‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president (www.theguardian.com)

Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation (www.businessinsider.com)

As Twitter, renamed X, faces increased scrutiny in the EU and usage falls, Elon Musk has floated drastic action.

Open source intelligence suggests rocket was launched by Palestinian group, backing up Israel's claims (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Linux way way slower than Windows?

So I jumped ship from Windows to Kubuntu last night, and It’s mostly been pretty good. However my general performance of the computer has been abysmal. Like it takes upwards of 5 seconds to open anything. All of my hardware seems to be running at max speeds, so I have no idea why it would be so sluggish? It’s as if I’m...