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

How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe (www.washingtonpost.com)

Anon tries prospecting (sh.itjust.works)

Zen - a clean and simple text editor in your browser (zen.unit.ms)

New Zealand “deeply shocked” after Canada drone-spied on its Olympic practices—twice (arstechnica.com)

The Charlotte Dujardin horse-whipping scandal puts dressage’s Olympic future at risk (www.independent.co.uk)

Private prison operator CoreCivic holds close ties with Tennessee lawmakers as it sidesteps state law (tennesseelookout.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/private-prison-operator-holds-c…

speed of lightsters // development of sub-lasers still ongoing (sh.itjust.works)

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)

My friend JD Vance has never cuddled a couch. (lemmy.world)

It’s not true, folks. The lying liberal media wants you to think he’d shag a settee. That he’d bone a book stand. That he’s creamied on the credenza....

Amid tensions with China, some US states are purging Chinese companies from their investments (apnews.com)

As state treasurer, Vivek Malek pushed Missouri’s main retirement system to pull its investments from Chinese companies, making Missouri among the first nationally to do so. Now Malek is touting the Chinese divestment as he seeks reelection in an Aug. 6 Republican primary against challengers who also are denouncing financial...

Star Trek Online Brings Back Some Classic Trek Gaming With Heritage Starship Bundle (trekmovie.com)

‘Unacceptable Levels’ of Hazardous Substances in Temu Products, UK investigation finds (sourcingjournal.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1168909...

Colombia's president signs bill to ban bullfighting in the South American country (apnews.com)

Israel flagbearer at Paris Olympics ‘signs bombs’ targeting civilians in Gaza (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

Israel’s male flagbearer at Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is believed to have signed bombs prior to them being fired against the Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu has reported. Peter Paltchik, 32, used social media to show him writing “From me to you with pleasure” on munitions destined for Gaza....

Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them (www.theregister.com)

Research Findings:...

Concord’s second free weekend on PS5 defies logic with 8% player drop [premise of what's coming to PC] (www.truetrophies.com)

Other data structures exists? (sh.itjust.works)

Nobody likes them (sh.itjust.works)

Uses for local AI?

Im using Ollama on my server with the WebUI. It has no GPU so its not quick to reply but not too slow either....

Germany bans Muslim association for pursuing radical Islam (www.reuters.com)

Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas (www.nbcnews.com)

The law enforcement officer spent months methodically gathering evidence. He leafed through thousands of pages and highlighted key passages amid reams and reams of paper. He wore his body camera to record his interactions with witnesses and suspects. And he photographed what he saw as instruments of the alleged crime:...

Need distro advice

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Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API

Context : Immich default map tile provider (which gets sent a bunch of PII every time you use the map feature) is a company that I see no reason to trust. This is a follow-up to this post, with the permanent temporary fix I came up with. I will also summarize the general opinion from the comments, as well as some interesting...