Apple has refused to provide the calibration tool for the sleep sensor to independent repair people. A German repairman has beaten Apple and developed a calibration tool....
Yeah, but that means people are going to want to wait until it’s open source which means less people will buy it initially. Maybe enough will buy before someone or something else comes along.
An embattled Louisiana police department has been hit with a second lawsuit alleging officers from a street crime unit dragged detainees to an unmarked warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave,” where they were assaulted, stripped and subjected to body cavity searches....
The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized....
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
Assume you’re life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you....
Seriously though, drugs are the quickest easiest way to make a quick buck. Used to be able to scam the check cashing places pretty easy but it’s mostly electronic now.
The former Florida surgeon general is rebuking claims by the DeSantis administration that updated COVID-19 vaccines have “not been proven to be safe or effective” and that the shots should not be recommended for individuals under the age of 65....
Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said Friday, citing a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities....
You’re actually making an argument that government officials and authority figures need more training or different officers that can actually handle this shit.
An Apple "iPhone16,1" was put through the Geekbench 6.2 gauntlet earlier this week—according to database info this pre-release sample was running a build of iOS 17.0 (currently in preview) and its logic board goes under the "D83AP" moniker. It is interesting to see a 16-series unit hitting the test phase only a day after the...
The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico....
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that a regulation intended to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, delivering a major blow to the Biden administration....
My instance has (already) decided to not block a particular instance, which in the majority I find to be divisive, at best. I keep missing the instance source in the user names, and it’s the single biggest source of bad lemmy experience....
I was just curious what other limitations you’ve encountered. Didn’t need to name them all if it’s a lot, lol. I use WSL2 on occasion but I’m not super familiar so i was curious what things could be gotchas.
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night. A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach. State media said 632 people had been killed and another 329 injured, citing an updated initial toll from the Interior Ministry....
(CNN) — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled...
What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?
I don’t see it as being “out”. The webpage only has a preorder option and I’ll never preorder anything. I’d wait and see what the general consensus is before buying anything. Things can look good on paper. All that being said, if it’s actually decent then it seems like a pretty good deal.
Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield....
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away....
Following the death of the purveyor of laid-back, beachside rock, his fans, known as Parrotheads, paid tribute by lifting their glasses at locations of his Margaritaville empire.
As thousands of people remain unable to leave the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated their campsites with ankle-deep mud Saturday, authorities say they are investigating a death at the event....
The city is now moving forward with a massive floodwall project to protect itself, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project will include tide gates, levees, pump stations and nature-based features like oyster reefs and vegetation along the shoreline. It’s one of the biggest infrastructure efforts in...
Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots....
Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and...
While China’s particulate pollution levels are within its national standards, they “significantly exceed” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines
Still not exactly great but at least it’s progress.
…During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website…
With their consent, I had entered the rider’s credit card information—data that is often easy to buy from criminal marketplaces, or which might be trivial for an abusive partner to obtain—and punched that into the MTA site for OMNY
I understand all of the logistics for needing them around the globe. So they purchase the land? I’d have guessed a lease. Surprising the host nations aren’t helping with costs or anything.
Right to Repair - We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! (www.youtube.com)
Apple has refused to provide the calibration tool for the sleep sensor to independent repair people. A German repairman has beaten Apple and developed a calibration tool....
Baton Rouge woman says she was 'sexually humiliated' by police in 'torture warehouse' (www.nbcnews.com)
An embattled Louisiana police department has been hit with a second lawsuit alleging officers from a street crime unit dragged detainees to an unmarked warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave,” where they were assaulted, stripped and subjected to body cavity searches....
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Free COVID test kits are coming back. Here's how to get them. (www.cbsnews.com)
“Four free tests will be available for each household to request through the government’s COVIDTests.gov portal beginning on Monday, Sept. 25.”
Attorney for Alabama band director arrested after football game says tasing was unacceptable and left students traumatized (www.cnn.com)
The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized....
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
You are diagnosed with cancer but have no money for treatment. You've no option but to steal the money somehow. What's your plan?
Assume you’re life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you....
Former Florida surgeon general rebukes DeSantis administration’s claims on COVID vaccines (abcnews.go.com)
The former Florida surgeon general is rebuking claims by the DeSantis administration that updated COVID-19 vaccines have “not been proven to be safe or effective” and that the shots should not be recommended for individuals under the age of 65....
Kansas will no longer change trans people's birth certificates to reflect their gender identities (apnews.com)
Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said Friday, citing a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities....
Apple A17 Pro SoC Within Reach of Intel i9-13900K in Single-Core Performance (www.techpowerup.com)
An Apple "iPhone16,1" was put through the Geekbench 6.2 gauntlet earlier this week—according to database info this pre-release sample was running a build of iOS 17.0 (currently in preview) and its logic board goes under the "D83AP" moniker. It is interesting to see a 16-series unit hitting the test phase only a day after the...
Family of man killed by police responding to wrong house in New Mexico files lawsuit (www.cbsnews.com)
The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico....
Cleveland police officers who pulled people over and robbed them sentenced to prison (www.nbcnews.com)
Their arrests are connected to a wider investigation into the East Cleveland Police Department for corruption....
Federal judge again declares Obama-era DACA program unlawful (www.cnn.com)
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that a regulation intended to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, delivering a major blow to the Biden administration....
Client that supports blocking instances?
My instance has (already) decided to not block a particular instance, which in the majority I find to be divisive, at best. I keep missing the instance source in the user names, and it’s the single biggest source of bad lemmy experience....
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Powerful earthquake in Morocco kills more than 600 people (www.reuters.com)
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night. A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach. State media said 632 people had been killed and another 329 injured, citing an updated initial toll from the Interior Ministry....
‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma (edition.cnn.com)
(CNN) — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled...
Pipewire vs PulseAudio, general question
What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?
Is the fairphone really worth it?
The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…...
For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia. Now it’s drawing outrage. (www.inquirer.com)
Russian forces are using car tires to try and protect Tu-95 bombers (www.pravda.com.ua)
What is the best way to respond to "You have an answer for everything", "You always have to be right", or "You always need to have the last word"?
Fatal police shooting of pregnant Ohio woman raises concerns over firing at moving vehicles (apnews.com)
Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield....
Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers (apnews.com)
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away....
Fans flock to Jimmy Buffett's eateries to toast the Mayor of Margaritaville (www.nbcnews.com)
Following the death of the purveyor of laid-back, beachside rock, his fans, known as Parrotheads, paid tribute by lifting their glasses at locations of his Margaritaville empire.
1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains (www.cnn.com)
As thousands of people remain unable to leave the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated their campsites with ankle-deep mud Saturday, authorities say they are investigating a death at the event....
Starfield on Steam Deck (day 1 early access) (www.youtube.com)
Are US politicians too old? Voters weigh in (www.bbc.com)
A recent health scare for Mitch McConnell has raised concerns about the age of America's politicians.
At risk from rising seas, Norfolk, Virginia, plans massive, controversial floodwall (www.npr.org)
The city is now moving forward with a massive floodwall project to protect itself, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project will include tide gates, levees, pump stations and nature-based features like oyster reefs and vegetation along the shoreline. It’s one of the biggest infrastructure efforts in...
Mushroom pickers urged to avoid foraging books on Amazon that appear to be written by AI (www.theguardian.com)
Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots....
What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand? (sh.itjust.works)
Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and...
Jimmy Buffett, legendary 'Margaritaville' singer, dies at 76 (www.nbcnews.com)
Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to 'war on pollution,' report says | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2137470...
Egypt Planning To Drill 35 New Natural Gas Wells (menafn.com)
…the Nargis-1 exploration well […] holds about 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas…...
Will you be/have you done Burning Man? What worked, or didn't for you?
I think a little of it would go a long way for me, personally, but I’m curious about others experiences.
Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert (www.nature.com)
I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’ (www.404media.co)
…During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website…
NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network (arstechnica.com)
DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn’t getting the budget