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kamila 🌸: Google Pixel Watch 2 marketing material (twitter.com)

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Paris Hilton is getting a special deal to post on X (www.theverge.com)

GitHub - Asudox/LemmyCTTS: A program to convert Lemmy comments to a video (github.com)

I basically made this program to convert Lemmy comments to videos just like those Reddit videos on YouTube. I know that there are a few bugs here and there, I will fix them later. For now, the most obvious one is the transition effect video not showing up during transitions, only the audio does. There also might be issues when...

October: kbin.social planned technical outage (kbin.social)

This week (at the latest at the beginning of next week), there will be a several-hour technical break. A banner with detailed information about this will appear 24 hours before the planned work....

The real truth (sh.itjust.works)

Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)

cross-posted from !google...

Assassin's Creed Mirage's narrative director fought to include the Alamut because it's so important for the lore (www.gamesradar.com)

Meta Trained Its AI Using Your Public Facebook and Instagram Posts (www.pcmag.com)

Humane Ai Pin is shaped like Google Clips and won’t need a paired phone (9to5google.com)

Peppermint Introduces PepMini: Minimal OS with Debian (debugpointnews.com)

From DebugPoint

What do you think the bare necessities of the current world is? (beehaw.org)

Years back, it was more simple. Food, shelter, and water. But now, as technology, advances and people get stressed out more and more from life getting too complicated, needing manuals for almost everything. What do you guys think the bear necessities are now?...

easy peasy (sh.itjust.works)

"I mean, I once told my mom that Stalin did nothing wrong" -- "I think he hurt gay people and was antisemitic but libs dont talk about that because I guess that implies homophobia was bad" (sh.itjust.works)

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Navy Will Start Testing SEALs for Illicit Drug Use (www.nytimes.com)

For generations, the Navy SEALs have attracted top athletes who compete for slots on elite teams and take on harrowing missions, but never in all those years did the Navy regularly test the force for illicit steroids and other drugs that could boost performance. Now that is about to change....

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)

The configuration of the device allows water to circulate in swirling eddies, in a manner similar to the much larger “thermohaline” circulation of the ocean. This circulation, combined with the sun’s heat, drives water to evaporate, leaving salt behind. The resulting water vapor can then be condensed and collected as pure,...

Epic's Layoffs Should Be Blamed On A Quixotic Pursuit Of The Metaverse (www.forbes.com)

Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.

xdg-ninja: A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories. (github.com)

xdg-ninja is a shell script that checks for unwanted files and directories in the user’s home directory and suggests moving them to an appropriate location. The script uses a configuration file that contains rules for identifying unwanted files and directories. The configurations are from the arch wiki page on XDG_BASE_DIR,...

"Our Wire Mothers" - It's important for us to be careful that our technology does not supplant the human need for socialization. (www.staygrounded.online)

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