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Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters (www.msnbc.com)

Is Backblaze a reliable provider?

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Boot Partitions on Same SSD with 2 Distros

I am new to Linux and wondering about having multiple distros on the same SSD and the best way to partition them. My current plan is to try Nobara Linux while having Linux Mint as a backup. By default I think that both the Mint and Nobara installers will create a partition for /boot and a combination / & /home partition. (Also,...

It's Saturday, are you doing anything at night?

Me, short answer no.

When a piracy website is cleaner than almost all the web!

Mirta Díaz-Balart, wife of Fidel Castro before Cuban revolution, dies at 95 (www.washingtonpost.com)

Best universities for women?

I have a few daughters looking for science and engineering programs in the next few years. They’re all scared to attend schools in states hostile towards women. I get that. I’m looking for recommendations for schools in states positive towards women that have good STEM programs.

"Portainer restructuring and layoffs" (cross-post from another site)

Might be related to this other post: lemmy.ca/post/24478184...

JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts (finance.yahoo.com)

The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth...

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election (www.theguardian.com)

AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law (gizmodo.com)

‘Call the police, he’s on drugs': But the worker was dying from heatstroke. (www.politico.com)

Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili (www.pbs.org)

Supporters of Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime lawmaker, entered the streets of Tehran and other cities before dawn to celebrate as his lead grew over Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator....

Growing number of ‘unemployables’ frustrated by the job market (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)

Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour (www.theguardian.com)

Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...

Ukraine war: Russian air strike leaves 100,000 with no power (www.bbc.com)

The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

Are people excited for Age of Mythology: Retold? Release date: 4th of September (store.steampowered.com)

Suddenly fading out of existence (lemmy.world)

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso junta chiefs 'turn their backs' on West Africa bloc Ecowas (www.bbc.com)

9 year hardware upgrade, running arch 😱

I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go… except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn’t let my...