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I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
It would be less dramatic though (startrek.website)
Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot (www.businessinsider.com)
Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It’s putting those people in an awkward spot::Big Tech wants to bring back some of the workers it laid off. The decision might come down to how a company handled the layoffs.
Under what conditions would you be OK with ads on your lemmy instance?
I’ll start:...
'Scandalous': Anger as BBC 'refuse to cover' anti-Brexit rally in London (www.thenational.scot)
THE BBC has been asked to explain why it has not reported on a large-scale anti-Brexit rally in the centre of London ...
A fair trade, wouldn't you say Captain? (looty.buckodr.ink)
Voice comments (lemmy.ml)
We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Developers of indie puzzle game Orgynizer have claimed that Unity said organisations like Planned Parenthood are “not valid charities” and are instead “political groups.”...
Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps (www.broadbandtvnews.com)
Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps::Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters are up in arms after Amazon demanded a 30% slice of any advertising revenue that passes through its FireTV devices. Financial Review said networks Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS had accused the parcels to showbiz company of a...
Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)
The difference (feddit.de)
0.30000000000000004 (feddit.de)
It's a mass extinction event (lemmy.world)
The EU has finally won this one! (feddit.de)
Perl still relevant in 2023/24?
hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different...
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC’s “predetermined decision.”
Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes?
Quick edit: If this is considered in violation of rule 5, then please delete. I do not wish to bait political arguments and drama....
Openreach Stops Selling New UK Analogue Copper Phone Lines (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Delta flight returns after passenger has diarrhea ‘all the way through’ plane (www.theguardian.com)
UK's "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill (www.wired.com)
I believe the “Online Safety Bill” should be renamed the “Online Exposure Bill,” and here’s why:...
I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it (www.digitaltrends.com)
What is your favorite domain name provider, and why?
Is it one that you just use and works just fine? Or one that has proven to be reliable and responsible if they do a mistake and only want to satisfy you as a customer?
X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes. (thehackernews.com)
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023....
Why does tech reporting seem so bad now?
Is everyone just using AI and not proof reading? I see this a lot lately. Even Tom’s Guide has bad editing, a good example is this article: www.tomsguide.com/news/pixel-8...
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Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren't left behind (www.techradar.com)
Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren’t left behind::There’s a need for more AI training, report finds
It's the truth (discuss.tchncs.de)
Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.
EU purchases of Russian LNG up 40% compared to pre-war levels, new study finds (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2121597...
PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
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Linux 6.5 has landed (www.theregister.com)
Commando: A Home Port Comparison (i.imgur.com)
Commando (released as Senjō no Ōkami in Japan, Wolf of the Battlefield) is a 1985 Capcom arcade shooter. Word to the wise: Commando isn’t based on the Schwarzenegger movie of the same name - that’s some false knowledge I’ve carried round with me for close to forty years… oh, how I’ve embarrassed myself at dinner...
Is using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?
Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?