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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.

Introducing The Lemmy Overseer (overseer.dbzer0.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95652...

Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?)

hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to

Here's what the internet might look like without Reddit (mashable.com)

Bethesda Releases Full List Of Starfield PC Specs (www.kotaku.com.au)

Starfield PC Specs and System Requirements...

Email is the oldest Federated service.

I was struggling to wrap my head around how federated social media works until I realized that email has basically been doing the same thing for 30 years. Different email servers are like instances of a federated network. You can send emails to people from within a single server or you can send emails to people on any other mail...

In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)

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What do you think of foldable phones?

Seems like foldable phones are taking over (e.g. Motorola Razr making waves) and only Apple is missing an entry in this form factor now. Almost everyone who can afford one swears by it with the exception of weak build quality....

At the Olympics, AI is watching you (arstechnica.com)

Given the shutdown/attack today, which targeted stations far from the capital, this, ah… did not go well....

Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again (lucvandonkersgoed.com)

As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I’ve been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn’t attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.

"Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ (restofworld.org)

Bing’s translation and search engine services in China censor more extensively than Chinese competitors’ services do, according to new research....

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