India vetoed Algeria BRICS+ entry at France's request: Report (new.thecradle.co)
Secure distro for daily use
Hi, Im searching for a secure distro for normal daily use for my laptop. Currently Im running arch linux with full disk encryption, secure boot, linux hardened, firewalld and most apps as flatpaks (with some disabled permissions using flatseal). I think its pretty secure laptop but it could be more secure....
Voice referendum: Australia to hold historic Indigenous vote in October (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2089850...
Tall grass silhouette at sunset [OC] (i.imgur.com)
Broadkill Beach, Delaware
Caste matters : Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu, India (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another case of caste-based violence among school students in Tamil Nadu, more than 20 caste Hindu students belonging to the Urali Gounder community attacked a Dalit student and his grandmother in Karur district on Saturday, August 26, for laughing inside a bus....
Steam Strategy Fest :: Aug 28 - Sep 04 (store.steampowered.com)
Everyday is like living through spring summer fall and winter.
I was just thinking that you could loosely look at each day being the four seasons. Morning is spring, afternoon is summer, evening is fall, and night is winter....
Ludwig II: Bavaria's 'fairytale king' and his dream castle (www.dw.com)
Perched on a cliff in the Bavarian Alps near Füssen, Germany, the Neuschwanstein Castle is the epitome of the idyllic. Its spires soar to the heavens, while the surrounding landscapes are an invitation to daydreaming. It’s the stuff of fairytales, so much so that the man who had it built is dubbed the “fairytale king” —...
Rubiales refuses to resign as Spanish FA president (www.bbc.co.uk)
Luis Rubiales refuses to step down as president of the Spanish football federation in the aftermath of his behaviour at Sunday's Women's World Cup final.
Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI (literature.cafe)
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence....
Prigozhin lives! Kremlin battles rumors Wagner chief faked his death (www.politico.eu)
If Russia’s propaganda machine seemed caught off guard by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny, its reaction to his death in a plane crash has been far more disciplined....
Larian drops Series S split-screen as "solution" to bring Baldur's Gate 3 to Xbox this year (www.eurogamer.net)
Should put this whole issue to rest (for a while, at least 😉).
Protest Songs: why do I feel like there were many more (and many more that were popular) in the 60’s and 70’s?
I’m a guy approaching 60, so I’ll start by saying my perception may be wrong. That could be because the protest songs from the late 60’s and early 70’s weren’t the songs I heard live on the radio but because they were the successful ones that got replayed. More likely, it’s because music is much more fractured than...
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin dies in plane crash in Russia (ABC News YouTube link) (youtu.be)
Anger in Spain after soccer chief kisses a player at Women's World Cup ceremony (www.npr.org)
A furor erupted after Luis Rubiales kissed player Jennifer Hermoso at a ceremony. "It was an unacceptable gesture and Mr. Rubiales' apologies are not enough," the acting prime minister said.
A Saudi Rolex Sold in a U.S. Mall Could Get Bolsonaro Arrested (www.nytimes.com)
It has been a bad 10 months for Jair Bolsonaro....
What's a book you really enjoyed, that you feel like no one else on lemmy has read?
I read some free kindle books back in the day, that probably only a few thousand other people have read, so very plausibly no one on Lemmy has ready....
[OC] Graveyard — Dead simple encryption (lemmy.ml)
After discovering Tomb, and a few personal issues with it, I decided to write a very similar program that doesn’t require root access and compiles to a single binary: Graveyard....
Georgia made it easier for parents to challenge school library books. Almost no one has done so (apnews.com)
Georgia Republican lawmakers passed a law to make it easier to challenge school library books as inappropriate, but few people are using it.
Does anyone have experience with playing Baldurs Gate 3 from GOG?
I have read it runs fine on steam but would rather buy it on GOG due to the lack of DRM.
Biden to sign strategic partnership deal with Vietnam in latest bid to counter China in the region (www.politico.com)
The new strategic partnership agreement opens the door to closer diplomatic, economic and technological cooperation with former foe — and China’s neighbor — Hanoi.
German archbishop 'disappointed' by diocese employees' attempts to access porn (apnews.com)
BERLIN (AP) — The archbishop of Cologne, one of Germany’s most important Catholic dioceses, expressed disappointment Friday that employees used work computers to try to access pornographic websites.
Eggs and Toast (lemmy.world)
Edit: I don’t know why that photo is side ways. It is in portrait mode on my phone