JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck ( jalopnik.com )
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 ( lemmy.world )
Source: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. ( lemmy.world )
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing ( www.techradar.com )
Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches ( www.wishtv.com )
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal? (How to Geek article) ( www.howtogeek.com )
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here ( www.ghacks.net )
The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC ( arstechnica.com )
Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash ( www.patrick-breyer.de )
"Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?" ( media.kbin.social )
Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus....
Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms ( www.nola.com )
History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says ( theconversation.com )
By Tinglong Dai, Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University...
Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...
Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data ( blog.mozilla.org )
Winamp is going open source ( feddit.uk )
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software....
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use" ( futurism.com )
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" for users — and he has examples of just what kind of "stuff" he means....
I found a worm on my USB
This is probably not the right community but I haven't found a better one....
Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Suggests Religion Is Used To Manipulate People ( wisportsheroics.com )
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema ( threema.ch )
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government ( www.theregister.com )
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand ( newatlas.com )
