Alternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlin (binaryfork.com)
Just like the operating system on your computer & cell phone, you can change the software running on your router.
Afghanistan: Taliban burn musical instruments (www.dw.com)
Taliban’s religious police reportedly burned a number of musical instruments in the western province of Herat, according to a Sunday report by the state-run news agency Bakhtar....
Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban (www.techspot.com)
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Child Safety on Federated Social Media (purl.stanford.edu)
Not the best news in this report. We need to find ways to do more.
'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security (abc7news.com)
Foreign LLC continues to acquire land in California critical to energy and national defense....
Paramount Plus just dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early (www.theverge.com)
If you’re a Paramount Plus subscriber, you can go watch Boimler of Lower Decks geek out over the cast of Strange New Worlds right now.
So why is .ml TLD going back to Mali taking everyone by surprise?
Was there some sort of assurance that nothing was going to happen when the contract expired, and this expectation was changed? Freenom hasn’t been registering domains since Jan 1....
What happens if you lose all citizenship?
This godforsaken country is introducing the bill that allows to strip people of birth-given russian citizenship for some things - like desertion and discreditation of army (which happens every time you question war)...
Do you have plans for the fall? (derp.foo)
Arresting Vladimir Putin in South Africa would be 'declaration of war', says Ramaphosa (www.bbc.co.uk)
Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open (community.frame.work)
Asians are not just Korean, Chinese and Japanese people
Afghan, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahraini, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Bruneian, Cambodian, Chinese, Cypriot, Georgian, Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Japanese, Jordanian, Kazakhstani, Kuwaiti, Kyrgyzstani, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivian, Mongolian, Burmese, Nepali, North Korean, Omani, Pakistani, Palestinian, Filipino,...
After 25 years, Netflix will be shutting down its DVD rental service this September (dvd.netflix.com)
The last disc will be shipped on September 29th 2023 after 25 years of service....
Why are indigo and violet in the rainbow and not just purple?
I always learned “ROYGBIV” as the colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet....
What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?
There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?
Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?
When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy....
YSK: You can use Libreddit instead of Reddit for more privacy and no ads (and no traffic/views for Reddit)
The developer wrote a good post on Reddit, which I will mainly quote here:...
How should we deal with similarly named communities? (kbin.social)
Right now there are similarely named communities across the fediverse....
Why do people hate Manjaro and how to replicate Manjaro sway in arch or arco?
Pretty much the title. Where’s the hate towards Manjaro coming from? I was pretty much a Ubuntu/Fedora user for years but never got too technical. Used almost always gnome, but recently got interested in tiling wm and have done some searches and stumbled upon the Manjaro Sway edition and everything works quite well, but I keep...
What are we all playing this weekend? (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Hunt: Showdown, Minecraft, and Dordogne are in our weekend gaming rotation - what are you playing?
What’s the fediverse’s answer to email? And everything else we use?
The talk about “enshittification” made me think of the very email we use for the instances we signed up and instantly, it paints a grim picture. One of my account used gmail to sign up. Some proton mail. It reminds me that these too are companies beholden to their shareholders....
a proposal to add opt-out telemetry in fedora is being discussed on fedora forums (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
the proposal is from a red-hat team member and is proposing addition of “privacy-respecting” telemetry. here’s the link to the hyperkitty thread
IT outage: banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCs (lemmy.world)
A global IT outage has caused chaos at airports, banks, railways andbusinesses around the world as a wide range of services were taken offline and millions of people were affected....