Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)
XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned (github.com)
New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life (www.seakingwdc.org)
Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC (www.notebookcheck.net)
Iran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel (www.nytimes.com)
Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576) (blog.rust-lang.org)
Thoughts on the xz backdoor: an lzma-rs perspective | Blog (gendignoux.com)
Mapping the world's salted soils: A leap forward in combating land degradation (phys.org)
A team of researchers has developed an approach that maps the soil salt content around the world with an exceptional detail of 10 meters. This advance tackles the pressing need for accurate assessments of soil salinity, a formidable challenge that jeopardizes agricultural productivity and soil vitality on a global scale....
Germany to Order Ships, Armored Vehicles Worth Up to €7 Billion (www.bloomberg.com)
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European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction (www.bbc.com)
Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland now merged (www.gamingonlinux.com)
This merge resquest has finally been merged into XWayland, which means NVIDIA users are just one beta driver release away (May 15th) from probably having a good experience on Wayland now!
Russia: Drone video shows highest ever levels of flooding (www.bbc.com)
Miami shows how a new kind of gentrification is coming to US cities, climate change plays a role (www.businessinsider.com)
The Future of America’s Biggest Spy Program Is Being Decided Right Now (www.wired.com)
Goodbye EndeavourOS ARM (endeavouros.com)
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! (blog.beeper.com)
Beeper was also acquired by Automattic
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app....
NPM - What services need what toggled? (slrpnk.net)
Hiya, just got NPM installed and working, very happy to finally have SSL certs on all of my serivces and proper URLs to navigate to them, what a breeze! However, as I am still in the learning process: I am curious to know when to enable these three toggles and for what services. I assume the “Block Common Exploits”, can...
Transgender Catholics say new Vatican document shows no understanding of their lives (apnews.com)
Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex....
International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in landmark climate case brought by 2,000 women (www.cnn.com)
An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland’s failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe....
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms (www.theguardian.com)
In a first, the state has purchased shoot houses designed for indoor gun training to help school staff ‘respond to active shooter’...
I just noticed the Australian man from Spa 5 is also on Osiris 4 in a later episode (lemm.ee)
I’ve seen this show thousands of times. I have most of it memorized to the point where I can recite it from memory, but I still catch new things all the time. That’s one of my favorite things about this show....