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just a reminder! (feddit.de)
Are you cancelling streaming services?
With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services....
What is the most impressive music video you've ever seen?
Most music videos, especially modern ones, are pretty boring.
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
Used coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger (www.livescience.com)
Swapping some of the sand in concrete for spent coffee grounds could increase the strength of concrete by nearly 30%, a new study suggests....
US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say (arstechnica.com)
The biggest Internet service providers will dominate a $42.45 billion broadband grant program unless the Biden administration changes a rule requiring grant recipients to obtain a letter of credit from a bank, according to a joint statement from consumer advocacy groups, local government officials, and advocates for small ISPs....
Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)
Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating...
ReiserFS is now “obsolete” in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025 (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft to unbundle Teams in Europe in bid to avoid EU antitrust fine (www.engadget.com)
The Fairphone 5 released, is the sleekest repairable phone yet (www.androidpolice.com)
Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...
Google "leak" gives first official look at the Pixel 8 Pro (www.androidpolice.com)
The Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro have leaked extensively in the last few months. These phones should officially debut in just over a month since Google typically announces new Pixels in early October. Leaked renders and hands-on images have already given us a good look at the Pixel 8’s design. Now, Google itself has accidentally...
iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it (arstechnica.com)
McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the...
YouTubers can take training courses to remove warnings from their permanent record (www.engadget.com)
Google just made it a lot easier for people to begin automating their smart home (www.engadget.com)
Google has really tried to go all in on automation since the rollout of its redesigned Home app in May. There’s been the introduction of a new script editor, Nest Cam Indoor integration and, now, a whole slew of new routines to use. The company has announced 18 new routines — half starters and half actions — immediately...
Google Pixel 8 will get more OS updates with longer lifespan than Samsung (9to5google.com)
While the Pixel 6 ushered in three years of major Android OS version updates and an additional two for security patches, that’s still nowhere near the longevity of the iPhone. Google hopes to change that on the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro with noticeably more OS updates.
Scientists Use Extreme Heat and Pressure to Create Strongest Glass Ever (www.extremetech.com)
The modern smartphone came about thanks to numerous technologies, including more powerful mobile processors and enhanced mobile networks, but we cannot discount the effect of hardened glass. Materials like Corning Gorilla Glass made it possible to carry a glass sandwich in your pocket without getting shards of glass stuck in...
Qualcomm's Next Smartphone Chip Will Be Built for Generative AI (www.extremetech.com)
Generative AI is slowly worming its way into every facet of technology, and next up is your smartphone. Qualcomm says that its next flagship mobile chips are going to be built specifically to run generative AI on the silicon, reducing reliance on the cloud. Running an AI on your phone could be a boon for privacy, but is...
[Mint] My first try with Cinnamon (jlai.lu)
I’m a window user and trying to take care of my privacy!...
Gender Surgeries Nearly Tripled From 2016 Through 2019, Study Finds (www.nytimes.com)
The number of gender-affirming surgeries, intended to align patients’ physical appearance with their gender identity, nearly tripled in the United States between 2016 and 2019, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday....
why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread?
Latest Android Runtime (ART) update led to apps starting 30% faster (9to5google.com)
British nurse refuses to appear to be sentenced for murdering seven babies (www.cnn.com)
A British nurse refused to appear in court on Monday to be sentenced for the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of six others at the UK hospital where she worked....
Trader Joe’s crackers recalled because they might contain metal (www.cnn.com)
Trader Joe’s is recalling a type of cracker because the crackers might contain metal, marking the second significant recall the budget grocer has made in recent weeks because of foreign objects in their food.
New school bus route is a 'disaster,' Kentucky superintendent admits. Last kids got home at 10 pm (www.fox2detroit.com)
Gene-therapy drops restore teen's vision after genetic disease left his eyes clouded with scars (www.livescience.com)
Porkchop Sandwiches (www.youtube.com)
Florida Has Approved PragerU ‘Curriculum’ for the Classroom (www.thedailybeast.com)
Why are flies so attracted to poop?
I’m sure there’s something “nutritional” there for them but?
18+ AI South Park: Fable shows off their AI tech to write, produce, direct animate, and voice an entire episode (fablestudio.github.io)
Google throws its weight behind yet another messaging standard (www.androidpolice.com)
TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump (www.pcgamer.com)
Solenoid Keyboard Sounds Very Much Like A Typewriter (hackaday.com)
Add Lemmy to Reddit r/place (feddit.de)
For anyone who still has the reddit app: Lets convert some Redditors to our side by replacint one of the fuckspez to “join-lemmy.org”
If you think about it, Africans are the real "pure blooded" people, because they didn't interbreed with the Neanderthals like Europeans did after migrating out of Africa.
Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK (www.engadget.com)
Does The Kentucky Attorney General Go To Work? An Investigation. (www.huffpost.com)
An open records request shows Daniel Cameron hasn’t used his key fob to get into the state Capitol for the last three years. His office won’t say why.
Ukraine takes down massive bot farm, seizes 150,000 SIM cards (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Valve adds ability to see Steam Deck verification in desktop Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Google Home’s new home panel is finally rolling out for Pixel phones (www.androidpolice.com)
Is there a way I can force my garage open from the outside?
I locked myself out of my detached garage. The remote to open it no longer works....
400,000-year-old mammoth tusk found sticking out of the ground in English quarry (www.livescience.com)
Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
WASHINGTON — Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the...
Pay Raises Are Finally Beating Inflation After Two Years of Falling Behind (www.wsj.com)
Wages rise more than 4% while consumer prices increase 3%...