“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
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Please be satire (sh.itjust.works)
How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.
The Yuzu repo is hosted on Radicle, an open source P2P GitHub alternative where repos are hosted and seeded across peoples locally running nodes (app.radicle.xyz)
Recognize the mother of Wifi (i.imgflip.com)
What’s your evidence, Richard Easton??!?
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations (fortune.com)
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell (www.entrepreneur.com)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous (apnews.com)
The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months....
This is not REAL capitalism! (lemmy.ml)
orange (lemmy.ml)
Let π = 5 (files.catbox.moe)
Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple has complied with the Chinese government’s request to remove several popular communication apps from its app store, including WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram, due to national security concerns. This action was taken following a directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These apps have been crucial...
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover (arstechnica.com)
NASA (mander.xyz)
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps like ReVanced (www.androidpolice.com)
What VPN should I get for Linux?
I’d prefer to get a VPN to avoid the risk of my internet getting shut down, but I’m not aware of what the options for Linux are. I figured this would be a good place to ask.
A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools (www.theverge.com)
Would a Raspberry Pi Zero be good for Radarr and Sonarr?
So I recently set up a home media server and was planning on setting up remote access using Tailscale which doesn’t work very well with VPN’s from what I have read....
that's how it works, right? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Description: A three panel comic often referred to as “No take, only throw.” The first panel is a dog biting a toy with the caption “I want to be good at my hobbies.” The second panel is the dog looking angry and refusing to let go of the toy when a hand reaches out to throw it for the dog again, and it has the caption...
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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Gen Z is choosing not to drive (www.newsweek.com)
Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store (bgr.com)
I was able to learn React though (lemmy.world)
Anon talks trash about S. Korea (sh.itjust.works)
Florida woman sues Hershey for $5 million, says Reese's candies don't have carved designs (www.cbsnews.com)
HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it....
Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun dies by suicide, drug scandal sweeps entertainment scene (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages (9to5google.com)
New Sidebar Rule:
We’ve had to create a new sidebar rule, we won’t be enacting it retroactively because that just doesn’t seem fair, but going forward:...
Proton VPN on Linux looks very different from Windows. How do you select one of their P2P options for faster torrenting?
Pretty much what the title says. I noticed that ProtonVPN Linux has an EXTREMELY limited interface compared to their program on Windows. I also do not appear to have the option to bind qBittorrent to ProtonVPN the same way that I did with MullvadVPN. Has anybody experienced ProtonVPN on Linux and successfully used it for...
Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine (www.vice.com)
Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine::Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (arstechnica.com)
Samsung Adds More Devices to Its Self-Repair Program, Including Foldables for the First Time (news.samsung.com)