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Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Qur'an burnings (www.ctvnews.ca)
World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events (apnews.com)
The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.
Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now (www.eurogamer.net)
On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it’s 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.
Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW (lemmy.ml)
How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours (www.thestar.com)
How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours::Canadian tech employers want the immigration ministry to extend the program launched last month — and it’s just common sense it should, David Olive writes.
The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained (www.pcgamer.com)
How Does a Country's Debt Affect its Citizens?
How Does a Country’s Debt Affect its Citizens?...
Thirty years of Debian! (vazaha.blog)
I want to switch to Linux but there are a few major hurdles.
So I have a situation. I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite as I am a graphic designer. Adobe is the golden standard for this industry (and likely to always be) so while Gimp and Inkscape might work, they are not feasible for my career. I also know that there will be...
I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China
In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the...
it's inevitable (lemmy.world)
new opponent unlocked
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....
Why would someone choose ubuntu server over a headless debian installation?
Unless it’s just a hardware driver issue?
Cult of the Dead Cow unveils 'Veilid', "a secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy" (www.theregister.com)
DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid (pronounced vay-lid), an open source project applications can use to connect up clients and transfer information in a peer-to-peer decentralized manner....
[KDE} I don't know why, but I made KDE look like Unity DE themed as MacOS. (lemmy.world)
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? (www.wired.com)
wired.com/…/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-f…
The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
Sweden All In On Nuclear Energy, Dumps Renewable Target (greeninvesting.co)
People who back into parking spots: Why?
To me, it seems objectively easier to pull into a parking space forward and then back out of the space when you are ready to leave. You don’t have to line up with the lines while driving backwards, and it’s easier to keep from hitting other cars as well. So why back in? To me, the only advantage I can think of is that you...
Being free from labor and being able to follow your dreams is the liberation of man. German
India's Defence Ministry to switch from Windows to locally built Ubuntu fork 'Maya' over security concerns (www.thehindu.com)
Due to increasing concerns over cyberattacks and malware, India’s Defence Ministry has decided to replace Microsoft’s OS with a locally made Ubuntu fork named Maya (meaning ‘deception’ in Sanskrit). Maya will have an interface similar to Windows to ease the transition, and an end-point detection and protection system...
Americans’ credit card debt hits a record $1 trillion (www.cnn.com)
Americans’ credit card debt levels have just notched a new, but undesirable, milestone: For the first time ever, they’ve surpassed $1 trillion, according to data released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
What is the maximum number of active users on an instance before the financial burden gets too high for the admins?
Pretty straight question....
Slow afternoon at the dog park. (lemmy.world)
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Neighbors say a Chicago man charged with killing an 8-year-old girl was upset over noise (apnews.com)
A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder after witnesses say an 8-year-old girl riding a scooter was fatally shot by someone upset over noise.
ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)
Update from Asus...
Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down (arstechnica.com)
GNOME’s Native Screencasting Feature is Taking Shape (www.omglinux.com)
The developer working on integrating network display functionality into GNOME Shell shared short video clip to the GNOME sub-reddit […] the feature adds a “screencast” button to the row of actions in the Quick Settings menu. Clicking this opens a modal picker where the user can select any Miracast or Chromecast compatible...
A drunk person wandering outside will always find their way back but a drunk bird probably won't.
Explanation: Random walk in 2D has a unity probability of making it back to the starting point as the number of steps approach infinity but random walk in 3D only has ~0.34.
Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’ (fortune.com)
Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’::Experts are starting to doubt it, and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a bit stumped.
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (www.theregister.com)
Proxmox HDMI output for one VM-container
Hi everyone, I’m planning to experiment with my first home server (jellyfin,nextcloud,bitwarden etc) running on a “old” Thinkcentre i5-7th. I’m thinking using proxmox in order to experiment with different configuration and I was wondering if it’s possible to have a single container/vr (with Libreelec) output HDMI to my...