Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com)
Is it possible to make the taskbar with multiple monitors behave like Windows?
I, like many others, have been getting worn down by Microsoft’s awful changes to Windows over the years, and I finally said enough is enough and moved to Linux....
Today I got greeted on a Tor friendly website (lemmy.ml)
It was at the Securedrop website. How did I end up there ? I read something about Sequoia and encryption and then wanted to see what Securedrop entailed....
Flathub new home page (lemmy.ml)
Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants (apnews.com)
New Hampshire's GOP are taking a stand—against the polio vaccine (www.motherjones.com)
Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF (www.bbc.com)
An influential global body has forecast Russia’s economy will grow faster than all of the world’s advanced economies, including the US, this year....
Web Devs: is there a phone-number-less AUTH that still prevents bots?
I make websites...
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th
Whatcha all been playing! I got the itch for outer wilds again, which I can’t really play anymore (😭)...
Fallout games from Fallout 76 to Fallout New Vegas have surged in popularity across all platforms following the release of the Fallout TV show. (twitter.com)
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China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)
US officials said that China provided more than 70% of the $900m (£723m) in machine tools – probably used to build ballistic missiles – imported in the last quarter of 2023 by Russia....
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. (www.thefp.com)
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Trump Media stock erases all gains since it began trading as DJT shares fall again (www.nbcnews.com)
*Permanently Deleted* (www.vanityfair.com)
U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska (www.aptnnews.ca)
non-Euclidean filesystem
I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I’m using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don’t even have 2.8 TiB of storage...
Every time (lemmy.world)
Just let me eat my cheese
Wanted American man flees to Russia, signs military contract (www.themoscowtimes.com)
A former American city council member who is wanted in the United States on child pornography charges appears to have fled to Russia and joined the Russian military, according to footage shared by regional authorities in the northern Khanty-Mansi autonomous district....
Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/28549378...
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
Trump and GOP use a fake panic about a "trans" Easter to justify their Christian nationalism (www.salon.com)
It’s easy to roll one’s eyes as the self-serving dramatics of MAGA voters using false claims of victimhood as cover for their ugly views. But, as the threatening language in Greene’s tweet shows, this “woe is us” act is deeply dangerous. The hyperbolic conspiracy theories and dehumanizing language serve to convince...