Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Indefinite strike at Samsung enters second week (peoplesdispatch.org)
Schools receive third — and potentially final — round of federal funding for homeless students (apnews.com)
From the start of the 2023-24 school year to its conclusion, the number of students experiencing homelessness in Kalispell’s public school system jumped from 293 to 365. Assistant Superintendent Sara Cole said the increase reflects a growing trend in her district, one driven primarily by the soaring cost of living in the wake...
A prison union's big spending on Gavin Newsom: Is it an ‘800 pound gorilla’ or a threatened species? (apnews.com)
A year after he took the top job in 2019, the president of one of California’s largest and most powerful unions said in a newsletter that he wanted to be “the 800 pound gorilla” in Sacramento politics....
Ask Neil deGrasse Tyson
Welcome to Ask Neil deGrasse Tyson!...
Crow chasing a coyote out of his neighborhood (youtu.be)
Former Israel Defence Minister says soldiers plagued by nightmares, economy in collapse (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.com)
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Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)
Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.
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Least favourite day of the week
My least favourite day has gotta be Wednesday, whether you’re working or not, it’s right slapdash in the middle and you just FEEL you’re at the end of the tunnel but not quite…...
Ray Lynch - Celestial Soda Pop [ New Age/Alt Pop/Instrumental | United States | 1984 ] (youtu.be)
A bubbly Monday to the lot of you.
NewPipe stopped working?
Newpipe hasn’t worked on my Android for several days now. Has YouTube blocked the app, or did an update break it?
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video) (youtu.be)
Pigbutt (lemmygrad.ml)
Finally, some good fucking news.
What are the best communities to ask questions on lemmy?
Which are you? (pomf2.lain.la)
Seems reasonable (lemmy.world)
Does anyone else have experience with koboldcpp? How do I make it give me longer outputs?
I switched from llamacpp to koboldcpp. Koboldcpp is really really fast because it can use gpu. The problem is that I’m having a hard time to get it to generate long enough outputs....
Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about (www.youtube.com)
Insight into One of Life’s Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study (www.bristol.ac.uk)
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.
How the war in Ukraine is reviving Russia’s rustbelt (www.ft.com)
archive.ph/UGtAT
Testimonies From the Mawasi Massacre: 90 People Buried in the Sand (scheerpost.com)
Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from Itch.io (lemmy.world)
This is a list of text-based IF’s that I and another user from itch.io, xSai or Bladed-Barbwire on Discord, made on itch.io, and I thought I’d share this here with you guys in case anyone is interested. All the credit goes to xSai for coming up with the idea. Also, note that, neither I nor xSai own the rights to any of these...
What do you prefer to selfhost?
I’ve been around selfhosting most of my life and have seen a variety of different setups and reasons for selfhosting. For myself, I don’t really self host as mant services for myself as I do infrastructure. I like to build out the things that are usually invisible to people. I host some stuff that’s relatively visible, but...