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What did everyone read in June?

What books/comics/mangas etc. Did you read in June?

PSA: Mastodon is NOT Twitter and does not aim to be.

I've spent more than 7 years in Mastodon, and in my experience, new users always come in with a Twitter mindset, then getting a cultural shock because they come to Mastodon expecting a Twitter experience and end up finding something strange and bizarre....

What's the easiest way to cure severe constipation?

I prefer regular foods that help with constipation, not meds....

[REPOST] Won't Let Me Go To Jury Duty? Enjoy Being Questioned In Court

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Pentagon orders AMRAAM missiles worth over $1 billion for Ukraine (english.nv.ua)

EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk! (www.youtube.com)

r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again (lemmy.world)

The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)

As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."...

Keeping our cultural memory intact

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Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative (www.ctvnews.ca)

Where is my room

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)

So… if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮

Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models (arstechnica.com)

If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?

Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed.

Not sure where the official announcement of this happened, but videos and discussions of the game are now finally allowed. The game is still invite-only, but expect to start seeing it all over the place now. Popular streamers are already jumping into it....

Felony charges dismissed against ex-officers charged in Breonna Taylor raid (www.newsweek.com)

Is there a federated alternative to 4chan?

US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died (www.theguardian.com)

Jessie Peterson’s family spent a year searching for her after they were told that she had checked herself out of a California hospital against medical advice – before they learned that she had been dead all along....

Dynamic pricing

Japan is recycling food waste back into food with fermentation (www.bbc.com)

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How do you handle backup?

I’m running my media server with a 36tb raid5 array with 3 disks, so I do have some resilience to drives failing. But currently can only afford to loose a single drive at a time, which got me thinking about backups. Normally I’d just do a backup to my NAS, but that quickly gets ridiculous for me with the size of my library,...