I like OSS, Linux, art, signs, democracy, climate action. Slava Ukraini he/him
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I like OSS, Linux, art, signs, democracy, climate action. Slava Ukraini he/him
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Disapproval of Elon Musk is top reason Tesla owners are selling, survey says (electrek.co)
The disapproval of Elon Musk is the top reason Tesla Model 3 owners are selling their electric vehicles and going for another brand, according to a new survey of 5,000 Model 3 owners.
Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
Disney raises streaming prices as CEO Bob Iger warns of password sharing crackdown (finance.yahoo.com)
'A very retro, family-oriented message': New ads aim to reframe Poilievre (www.ctvnews.ca)
With a steady lead in the polls and a healthy war chest of political donations, the Conservative Party is rolling out a trio of new advertisements that are being viewed as aiming to redefine and soften Pierre Poilievre's image and messaging.
Biden to reinstate labor rule shelved by Reagan, giving construction workers a pay boost (www.usatoday.com)
In a nod to labor unions, President Joe Biden is moving to boost wages for construction workers on projects paid for with federal funding, a step that would appeal to a key constituency ahead of next year’s presidential election and potentially shrink the pay gap between northern and southern states.
ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)
Bill Maher Bashes ‘Barbie’ as a “Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The 'Real Time' host ran down his issues with the Greta Gerwig film, while insisting "I'm not the one who's out of step."
Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Wayne Brady Comes Out as Pansexual: 'I'm Doing This for Me' (people.com)
Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users (lemm.ee)
Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K (www.forbes.com)
To see war end as soon as possible, Ukraine needs long-range missile systems, aircraft, an expert says (www.ukrinform.net)
I'm so sick of distro hopping!
I need to just pick a distro, install it on all my laptops, and become an expert on that one. Forget the rest!...
‘He’s alone’: Trump arraignment sees no family, no posse, no protests (www.msnbc.com)
“There’s no posse and there’s no retinue and there’s no family,” says Chris Hayes on Trump’s arraignment. “The guy is alone. He is solo rolling with the lawyers who hope his checks clear.”
What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain (www.politico.com)
Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
Torvalds is a true genius (feddit.de)
Trudeau government steps in to bully port workers (thenorthstar.media)
Just re-read Jack L. Chalker's Well of Souls and Four Lords of the Diamond books as well as Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series, looking for more that combine magic and sci-fi in interesting ways.
If you haven’t read those books, give them a go!...
Facebook removed COVID-19 posts, bowing to White House pressure: report (nypost.com)
Facebook files that looks to shows the Biden administration’s efforts to censor COVID information online. Documents appear to show the administration pressured Facebook to remove posts about COVID vaccines and the possibility it originated in a Chinese lab.
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (www.theguardian.com)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers
Trump was just indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election (www.vox.com)
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.
‘Show up’: Vancouver Pride Festival kicks off with call for celebration, allyship - BC | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased (apnews.com)
Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms....
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Second ex-Mountie named as co-conspirator in Chinese interference case - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
That makes two treasonous ex-cops conspiring for the Chinese communist government. How many more will there be?
Anyway to filter out Elon Musk,Twitter and Reddit from my feeds
What the title says. I use “Liftoff on android” and I’m setting my feeds to be sorted by “top six hours” if that helps. I’m tired of those tree poisoning my feeds everytime I open lemmy, so I’m kindly asking if there is anyway to filter thise out from my feeds.
Analysis | Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
Downtime
Sorry about that! Service ran out of memory for some reason and I took some time to investigate....
Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)
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"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos. (lemm.ee)
About 8 months ago I got pretty tired of seeing billionaire spam online. I could not bear to read about yet another rich guy who launched themselves (or their $200,000 car) into outer space 🚀 . I did not care about their expert opinion on the latest meme coin back then. I do not care about their expert opinion on the dangers...
Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned (www.cnn.com)
CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )...
‘There’s nothing American about promoting violence’: country star Jason Aldean criticised for anti-protest song (www.theguardian.com)
Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community