A blueprint for writing introductions in technical tutorials (jamesg.blog)
Introduce the main concept being discussed in an article, with relevant background....
Apple is cutting off social media support! (en.shiftdelete.net)
Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Temporary Internet Outage on All U-M Campuses (umich.edu)
On the eve of classes starting for the fall term, the University of Michigan has decided to cut the internet connection of all campuses....
[Corp Blog] AnonAddy has rebranded as addy.io (addy.io)
Summary...
Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel (www.vulture.com)
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE. #HotUnionSummer #UnionStrong
4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search (beehaw.org)
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....
Installing Firefox... With Custom Profiles! (yewtu.be)
Link if you rather use YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC5CwEgr_g
A Discussion of Mastodon's Potential Growth Needs (erinkissane.com)
The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article’s body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we...
AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache (www.phoronix.com)
AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Meta's Llama 2 is not open source (www.theregister.com)
Battery for Lenovo ThinkPad T470s T480s - EU Location (lemmynsfw.com)
Can someone recommend reliable battery source for Lenovo Thinkpads for EU? I am particularly looking for aftermarket battery and for those specific models at the moment. However, it can be extended to general laptop batteries.
Bookwyrm - Decentralized network to discover and track your book read (joinbookwyrm.com)
BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.
EU commission clears acquisition of VMware by Broadcom (ec.europa.eu)
Figma Is A File Editor (digest.browsertech.com)
A high level but interesting write up of how Figma (a browser-based collaborative design tool) behaves like a file editor (their term), and how it overcomes the natural affinity of web apps to RDBMS-backed CRUD persistence patterns.
Lemmy bot to automatically reply to YouTube links with Piped ones
cross-posted from: feddit.rocks/post/3214...
Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes (newatlas.com)
Mastodon and Lemmy
It’s my understanding that Mastodon and Lemmy work together well in the Fediverse. I CAN see my Beehaw account from Mastodon, as well as other user accounts, but have difficulty understanding how I can specially find and follow Beehaw and/or other Lemmy instance content via Mastodon....
Batteries in electric vehicles have more mileage in city driving rather than highway driving (techxplore.com)
Reddit And Twitter: The New Giants Of Anti-Social Media (www.forbes.com)
This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen (www.theverge.com)
Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private (www.theverge.com)
All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)
I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
Meta and Mastodon: What’s really on people’s minds? (ianbetteridge.com)
A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.
