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

60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows (kotaku.com)

ZFS for Dummies (ikrima.dev)

"Transnational repression": Activists, dissidents fleeing their home countries are increasingly targeted for their work even when on foreign soil, rights group warns (www.hrw.org)

Human Rights Watch has reported cases of transnational repression for years. The governments of Saudi Arabia, China, Rwanda, and Russia, among others, have long been implicated in harassment, abductions, and killings, and, more recently, in digital abuses, through new technologies....

Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine (www.cnn.com)

Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled to free dozens of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years Wednesday, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800 others....

U.S. told Russia that Crocus City Hall was possible target of attack (www.msn.com)

An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband's campaign (apnews.com)

The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat....

UK government under pressure from Tories to stop arming Israel (www.theguardian.com)

cp_violation.mp3 (lemmy.world)

Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google (www.theverge.com)

The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...

Columbia Is Waging War on Dissent (www.thenation.com)

Columbia is has now started going after its faculty, initiating internal discrimination complaints against faculty who are pro-Palestinian, monitoring syllabi to censure what faculty are teaching, and removing them from teaching when there are student complaints about professors applying terms such as “settler colonialism”...

Never Forget...Olde' Crusade memes (lemm.ee)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/28558826...

Russian Foreign Ministry invites banned Taliban delegation to World Islamic Forum in Kazan (www.yahoo.com)

United States produces more crude oil than any country, ever (www.eia.gov)

Thailand’s economy is falling behind its Southeast Asian peers Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia amid growing middle-income trap fears (www.aljazeera.com)

Thailand’s economy grew just 1.9 percent last year, according to state economic planners, compared with growth of 5 percent or higher in the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam....

You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.

NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)

Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Federated Webrings (blog.commune.sh)

In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....

Reasonable (sopuli.xyz)

Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike (www.bellingcat.com)

South Korea's Hyundai Motor ends Indonesia aluminium deal after calls by a climate campaigner backed by K-pop fans not to procure supplies of the metal produced using coal power (www.reuters.com)

Hyundai Motor said in a statement on Tuesday that it had ended its non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Adaro, a unit of Indonesia’s second-largest coal miner Adaro Energy Indonesia, at the end of 2023, adding that the companies had decided to explore other opportunities independently.

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