This week in KDE: an unfrozen panel for NVIDIA Wayland users (pointieststick.com)
The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.
A grasshopper made from old typewriter parts (ibb.co)
The building where I work is decorated exclusively with art donated by local artists. I think this one is super cool.
Google Pixel 8a leaks absurdly early with rounded design [Gallery] (9to5google.com)
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims (www.theguardian.com)
The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
Adidas chief exec: Kanye West ‘didn’t mean what he said’ with antisemitic comments (www.theguardian.com)
Bjørn Gulden, chief executive of Adidas, has lamented the end of the company’s lucrative partnership with Kanye West, saying, “I don’t think he meant what he said,” regarding the rapper’s antisemitic comments in October 2022....
Are you really smart? Are you really dumb? Are you average? How did you come to your conclusion?
What’s up with China’s disappearing senior military officers? (www.vox.com)
Li Shangfu is the latest officer to fall victim to Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive.
1-Year-Old Dead and Man in Custody After Opioid Exposure at Bronx Day Care (www.nytimes.com)
The call came in Friday afternoon: Three children at a tiny, ground-floor day care in the Bronx could not wake up from nap time....
Russian hawks push Putin to escalate as US crosses more ‘red lines’ (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Andromeda, Unexpected, by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty (ichef.bbci.co.uk)
A photo of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has won this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London....
Alright... (lemmy.world)
What are some games that "spin" failure states?
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...
Fact check: Biden falsely claims he was at Ground Zero 'the next day' after 9/11 (www.cnn.com)
He did it three times in a single speech last month – falsely claiming to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh in 2022 (he actually visited the site more than six hours after the collapse), falsely claiming his grandfather had died just days prior to his own birth at the same hospital (his paternal grandfather died...
FDA clears new Covid boosters: 5 things to know (www.nbcnews.com)
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday greenlighted updated Covid boosters from Pfizer and Moderna. The shots, which are formulated to target the XBB.1.5 subvariant, are expected to be available later this week, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signs off....
X updates its terms to ban crawling and scraping (techcrunch.com)
The new terms, which are effective from September 29, ban any kind of scraping or crawling without “prior written consent.”...
Chile marks 50 years since Pinochet’s brutal coup (www.aljazeera.com)
Retroid Pocket 2S (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4790038...
Microsoft to Drop Support for Third-Party Printer Drivers on Windows (petri.com)
“With the release of Windows 10 21H2, Windows offers inbox support for Mopria compliant printer devices over network and USB interfaces via the Microsoft IPP Class Driver. This removes the need for print device manufacturers to provide their own installers, drivers, utilities, and so on. Device experience customization is now...
First Instance of Actual Computer Bug Being Found was on September 9th, 1947 (Or was it?) (education.nationalgeographic.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/517037...
Should you apologize to someone you ghosted before if there is a chance you might run into them?
Say you went out on like 2 dates and said person was too clingy and you ghost em, now you might have to face them due to work. Apologize or not? And if apologize, do it preemptively or upon meeting?...
What's the best vacuum cleaner in your opinion?
I’m looking for a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t need dust bags and gets its power from the wall socket with a cord. The suction power has high priority for me...
Can I keep fried eggs in fridge?
How long? Does it change the concistency or taste?...
Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories::Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space.