The US mall is not dying (www.cnn.com)
Retail experts have long sounded the alarm on malls in the US....
With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them (www.techdirt.com)
XPipe status update: SSH tunnel and config support, many new features, and lots of bug fixes (github.com)
Hello selfhosted community,...
Returning to Xfce 4.18 after years of Gnome 3/4 (xfce.org)
After years of using Gnome 3/4 with a modified setup on Debian, I returned to Xfce, and am quite impressed by the state of Xfce 4.18....
In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile (www.ft.com)
Games console industry tries to adapt to rise of free-to-play titles...
Chrome extension maker tells of pressure to sell out (www.theregister.com)
Taiwan will not back down in face of threats, William Lai says on US trip (www.aljazeera.com)
Taiwan’s vice president has declared that the self-governed island will not back down in the face of authoritarian threats after China pledged to take “forceful and resolute measures” following his stopover in the United States....
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server (jvns.ca)
Julia Evans (@bork) writes about her experience of running and using a single-person Mastodon server. The post also links to other people’s experiences in-between.
The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids” (www.eff.org)
Niger's ousted president is said to be running low on food under house arrest 2 weeks after coup (apnews.com)
Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend (arstechnica.com)
Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend::US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.
Investigating the 'spiritual healers' sexually abusing women (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1184128...
Jamie Foxx apologizes to the Jewish community for social media post (www.cnn.com)
Foxx’s message was in reference to a prior post, no longer found on his feed, which read, “They killed this dude named Jesus… What do you think they’ll do to you???!” He ended the post with the hashtags #fakefriends and #fakelove.
How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’ (variety.com)
Forcing your computer to rat you out (pluralistic.net)
"When we let corporations decide who is allowed to speak, they act with a mixture of carelessness and self-interest, becoming off-the-books deputies of authoritarian regimes and corrupt, powerful elites....
The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project (www.bbc.com)
The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project::One day in Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another.
Denmark to seek legal means to prevent Quran burnings (www.aljazeera.com)
The Danish government will try to find legal means that will enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Quran in front of other countries’ embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has said....
NASA is launching a new 'Plus' streaming service (www.theverge.com)
You’ll be able to watch live coverage of future launches, documentaries, and brand-new original series the agency is producing exclusively for NASA Plus. The agency is looking to “better tell the stories of how NASA explores the unknown” and connect with more people by transforming its digital presence...
The kids (lemm.ee)
This is a pic of Charlie and Pearl, back when they were just youngsters. How time flies…
Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)
Thomas Gleixner aims for "decrapification" of Linux APIC code, longs for removing 32-bit code (lore.kernel.org)
Thomas Glexiner of Linutronix (now owned by Intel) has posted 58 patches for review into the Linux kernel, but they’re only the beginning! Most of the patches are just first steps at doing more major renovations into what he calls “decrapification”. He says:...