Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
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World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest, most inclusive union | 500+ employees have organized across multiple departments, creating the first wall-to-wall union of its kind at the studio (www.theverge.com)
More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of employees across every department, including designers, engineers, artists, producers, and...
Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million and still lost....
RSS Feed Requests and Announcements - Get an RSS feed as a Lemmy community
Yesterday I posted about rss.ponder.cat, with communities automatically fed from a selection of RSS feeds. Today I made !meta, with:...
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)
Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18426215
Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat (www.vg247.com)
Whelp…I’m out. (I expected this to happen before they said anything though, honestly.)
Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit (www.webpronews.com)
at least we have competitions
Proton launches LLM and crypto wallet (proton.me)
proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant
Moms, if you were struggling with your child in public and a man offered to help, would you let him and why?
Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Apple’s rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again (lucvandonkersgoed.com)
As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I’ve been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn’t attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.
Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks (www.tomshardware.com)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a four-legged robot designed to jam the wireless transmissions of smart home devices. The robot was revealed at the 2024 Border Security Expo and is called NEO. It is built using the Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) and looks a lot like the...
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CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes (twiiit.com) Spanish
…according to a Twitter post by the Chief Informational Security Officer of Grand Canyon Education....
An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience (www.theregister.com)
IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface....
Appeals court halts return of net neutrality | The Sixth Circuit’s temporary stay comes only weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, weakening the FCC (www.theverge.com)
A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified....
What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it?
TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game (historyfacts.com)
AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15% (www.tomshardware.com)
Is everyone here leftist?
Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration?
25% of Housing Purchases in 2023 were Private Investors (youtu.be)
On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?
Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming | Companies like Comcast and Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join (arstechnica.com)
The cable industry has been in a nose-dive for years. Comcast’s Q1 2024 earnings report showed its cable business losing 487,000 subscribers. The cable giant ended 2022 with 16,142,000 subscribers; in January, it had 13,600,000....
Is there a chat/dating app that isn't complete shit and pay wall restricted?
Forgot to mention, apps that at least has a good following and matches in Europe.
What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)?
What happens to the election if Biden dies before it?...
In the US, did Amazon kill the mall, is everyone too broke, or a combination of other factors?
I watch a lot of Dead Mall videos on YouTube and I wanted to see what everyone’s thoughts are on why there’s so many dead malls now.
Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?
Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren’t filled with microtransactions? For example: easy puzzle games, match-3 games, low-difficulty adventure games, or clicker-style games....
Official Diabotical Rogue Trailer (www.youtube.com)