TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe (www.wired.com)
TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe::European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.
Anti-Putin Russians Kill FSB Border Guard During Cross-Border Raid (www.kyivpost.com)
LibreOffice 7.5.6 Office Suite Released with More Than 50 Bug Fixes (9to5linux.com)
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose (www.pcgamer.com)
Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/3417167
Saudi Man Receives Death Sentence for Internet Comments. (tipsandtricksbycent.medium.com)
This is why personal privacy & nyms are important, time to go somewhere else, but where can we remain anonymous in the digital world?
Kim Jong Un 'to visit Putin for weapons talks' (www.bbc.com)
I just realized there is absolutely no way to say 'i always lie'.
Scooter cleaning Bandit (lemmy.ninja)
Can I replace my shower controls? (i.imgur.com)
It seems like every shower has its own unique way of controlling water temperature and pressure. Of all the showers I’ve ever used, no two of which have ever been alike, I like my controls the least. Plus the faucet has started dripping lately....
Malaysia, India and Taiwan reject China's new territorial map (asia.nikkei.com)
Gabon officers declare military coup, President Ali Bongo detained (www.reuters.com)
Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and naming a new leader after the Central African state’s election body announced Bongo had won a third term....
Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision (www.pbs.org)
The goal is to avoid the pitfalls of Trump’s first years in office, when the Republican president’s team was ill-prepared, his Cabinet nominees had trouble winning Senate confirmation and policies were met with resistance.
Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With...
What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?
As per title. New releases especially are quite hard to find on other clients or p2p resources; what’s the best way to get them from the source so that I can share them back?
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises (learnbyexample.github.io)
Hello!...
Huge fire rages in China office building (www.bbc.com)
Nearly 300 firefighters were deployed to battle the blaze in the northern port city of Tianjin.
Lemmings, why did you decide to never confess to someone that you liked so much?
YSK a lot of open source Android apps have the option to locally backup/export your settings, statistics, and subscriptions
Simple Calendar Pro, Aegis, Feeder, and NewPipe are a few examples of open source apps available through F-Droid that allow you to easily export your data....
Seven killed, 90 wounded in Russian missile strike on Ukrainian city of Chernihiv (www.reuters.com)
Blue Jay in mid song [OC] (i.imgur.com)
Mid “song”… more like mid YELL TO EVERY BLUE JAY within 5 square miles
Just Remì and Pollo things (lemmy.ml)
Remì proceeded to bite Pollo, but Pollo invaded Remì’s private sleeping space (my bed) at least I captured a cute moment....