Jimmy Buffett, legendary 'Margaritaville' singer, dies at 76 (www.nbcnews.com)
Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August (gs.statcounter.com)
Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.
Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets (www.middleeasteye.net)
Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.
Taliban ban women from national park in Afghanistan (www.theguardian.com)
Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill renamed Fort Walker in push to remove Confederate symbols (abcnews.go.com)
Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill was officially redesignated Fort Walker on Friday morning during a ceremony on base, which took place on the eve of Women’s Equality Day....
New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power (www.pv-magazine.com)
New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power::In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy...
HistoryRuins - for sharing cool pics of ruins of the past! (lemmy.world)
In the spirit of !HistoryDrawings and !HistoryArtifacts, I figured there might be some use for HistoryRuins to share pics of the crumbling, ancient structures of the past!...
Revealed: Hawaii official refused to release water for Maui fires until it was too late (www.rawstory.com)
The fight over water is nothing new on Maui. But the impact on the county’s ability to battle fires is coming clear....
Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK (www.bbc.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/2Y3u6...
Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much (www.theguardian.com)
Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2852886...
Intentionally chose an open ecosystem for the smart relays in my house, now they crippled the app adding a $4 subscription (feddit.it)
If you don’t pay a subscription you can’t see the history of use, it’s limited to the latest 5 events. When I bought the ten devices (=I paid 150 euro for the hardware), it was 100 events
David Tennant Defends 'Good Omens' From Accusations Of Blasphemy: “People are very keen to be offended” (winteriscoming.net)
“People are very keen to be offended,” says Good Omens star David Tennant. Ah, he’s been on the internet at least once, I see.
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
Kevin Spacey found not guilty in sex offences trial - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again (www.ndr.de)
From the article: *Large SUVs were particularly affected. According to the police, notes were attached to the cars indicating that they were harmful to the climate. The tyres were not punctured, but merely deflated. The cars were parked in the area between the S-Bahn line and Elbchaussee around Kanzleistraße. *...
Netflix password crackdown has actually caused a growth in Subscriptions (www.bbc.co.uk)
I feel like other streaming platforms will follow the same process as they’ve proven it’s worked.
Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading (www.wired.co.uk)
Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.
City Ordinance Banning Public Homosexuality Reaches Rutherford County Libraries (www.erininthemorning.com)
In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. "When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys," says local activist.
Woman jailed after Rentahitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI (www.theregister.com)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains science (i.imgur.com)
Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to stop attacks on Gaza 'amounting to genocide' (www.reuters.com)
ANKARA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, which he said amounted to genocide, and urged the international community to work for a humanitarian ceasefire in the region....
Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game (www.gamesradar.com)
Something Wicked Games snatches another veteran for their horror-RPG
Fresno becomes second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination (www.nbcnews.com)
Fresno, California, has become the second city in the U.S. to ban caste discrimination, after the City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to incorporate two new protected categories into its municipal code....
