kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine (www.cnn.com)

US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode....

Crocs (The shoe, not the animal) 🐊

To those wearing crocs, what are they like? Are they soft and comfy as the media portrays them to be?...

Private prison behemoth GEO Group is first corporation to max out donations to Trump Campaign (www.citizensforethics.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/private-prison-behemoth-is-firs…

[SOLVED] Using clangd with vscode to develop a flatpak

I’m developing a program in C++ targeting flatpak, since I’m on an immutable system I’d rather develop for flatpak than try using a container (plus I can’t get SDL to open a window in a container anyway). Everything works with GNOME Builder but it’s not as nice to use as vscode: less syntax highlighting, doesn’t...

Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning....

Anon diagnoses a patient (sh.itjust.works)

With no residential address, homeless voters in Georgia face removal from the rolls (www.wabe.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/with-no-residential-address-hom…

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 now rumored to have superfast clock speeds – as well as being super-slim – could this GPU be too good to be true? (www.techradar.com)

Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video shows: Milwaukee police are investigating the killing of Dvontaye Mitchell, whose death has drawn comparisons to George Floyd’s (www.washingtonpost.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/dvontaye-mitchell-milwaukee-hya…

Keeping the playing field level (lemmy.world)

Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images (www.theguardian.com)

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose

Not my OC

Git Some Balls (Sleaford Mods) (www.youtube.com)

The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working (www.usatoday.com)

Senate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections (www.nbcnews.com)

The legislation, which states that “protections for access to abortion rights … should be supported," was blocked by Republicans who panned it as a “show vote.”...

Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17448835...

Chicago Taxpayers Have Paid $35.7M to Defend Disgraced Detective Reynaldo Guevara, With No End in Sight (news.wttw.com)

Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/GBjmn

Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host (games-on-whales.github.io)

After 3 years in the making I’m excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency....

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