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

If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time?

Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence (www.wsj.com)

A Bash script to rip music off CUE/BIN files (lemmy.ml)

I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a Bash script I made to automate ripping music off CUE/BIN files. It splits BINs into separate files, so it’s 1 file per track, and strips pregap data, encodes audio tracks to FLAC or Ogg Vorbis, and it also generates new CUE sheets....

What's your method for determining quality reviews on a product?

I’ve officially concluded I’m at a loss for how to determine if a product is worth it’s cost anymore....

what u actually signed up for (lemmy.ml)

If you want communism, you can start a commune

I see this way too often here on Lemmy, so I want to post this. Starting a commune is legal in most countries. If you believe in communism, you can found a commune and show us all how great it is....

The decisive decade: Understanding the trajectories of 14- to 24-year-olds (www.brookings.edu)

Announcing The DCon Chamber! A new Trek Podcast hosted by Dominic Keating (Malcom) and Connor Trinneer (Trip) from Enterprise (twitter.com)

'Tank of the future': France and Germany sign new arms deal (www.euronews.com)

France’s defence minister received his German counterpart on Friday to ink a deal between the two countries to build a next-generation battle tank....

Tourist Mauled by Brown Bear After Disastrous Attempt at Selfie (www.mensjournal.com)

Phantom Fury - PC Launch Trailer [sequel to Ion Fury] (peervideo.club)

Youtube

Dragon's Dogma 2 Path Tracing [Digital Foundry] (piped.video)

Youtube

Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)

Phoenix Point Terror from the Void is a fan-made comprehensive reworking of the XCOM (www.pcgamesn.com)

The day we brought Sencha home from the adoption center in 2019 (lemmy.world)

Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers. The company registered itself as a sales company, making the employees work 4 more hours a week and get paid less. (restofworld.org)

IBM registered itself (in Brazil) as a sales company....

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police (apnews.com)

Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived....

Did you choose for Linux for freedom or ...

for gratis or other reasons ?...

What are some positive and negative aspects of using the Internet?

Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions (apnews.com)

Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable....

The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials (www.cnbc.com)

There may be another factor creating so much wealth among millennials: inheritances. In what’s known as “the great wealth transfer,” baby boomers are expected to pass down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the next 20 years. Much of that is expected to go to their millennial children. High-net-worth...