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vividspecter@lemm.eeto
Android@lemdro.id•[F-Droid Blog] NGI Mobifree funds client app overhaulEnglish
2·10 months agoYou could recommend droidify which is a bit more straightforward as a client.
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Aussie Enviro@aussie.zone•Why Australia’s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate
25·10 months agoLater at the same meeting, Boyce said blackouts were “a big political opportunity” and that he had urged fellow MPs to adopt a “do-nothing strategy” that would allow power outages and build opposition to net zero policies.
Right out of the conservative playbook. Make things objectively worse, blame the “left” for it, then pretend you have a better solution for it.
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Aussie Enviro@aussie.zone•Scientists urge Peter Dutton to get up to speed on escalating climate risks | Climate Council
14·10 months agoHe’s an outright climate change denier. No amount of evidence is going to change this guy’s mind (that or he wants to pander to the denier contingent, probably both).
The scientist in Philadelphia signaled that he believes Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, is responsible for the NIH’s turn against mRNA research.
The FT source seems to be behind a paywall, and this article seems to be jumping between a bunch of possibly unrelated issues (focusing on young adult cognitive decline but looking at whole population reading rates and numeracy ability).
vividspecter@lemm.eeto
World News@lemmy.world•Canada ‘will never be part of the US’, says new PM Mark Carney amid trade warEnglish
2·11 months agoThere’s also an election coming up in Australia and the position of the conservative opposition is to give Trump whatever he wants. So contarianism is alive and well there.
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Games@lemmy.world•Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight ClubEnglish
4·11 months agoIt’s still in early access, to be clear. Looks like it’s already in a good state, however.
vividspecter@lemm.eeto
News@lemmy.world•Only Works as a State’: Trump Vows Not ‘To Bend’ On Tariffs Until Canada Is Absorbed Into The U.S.
10·11 months agoAnd as a respected media personality I can help round up others so they may toil in your underground
sugarmaple syrup caves.
vividspecter@lemm.eeto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Tailscale has messed up my internet connectionEnglish
1·11 months agoYou can also set --accept-dns to false with the commandline client although magic DNS etc won’t work.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For WineEnglish
1·11 months agoEssentially, although it depends on the specific issue. I don’t think hardware decoding with Wine is well supported either, so this should help with performance in the case of slow CPUs (or very high resolution / frame rate video).
If nothing else, the wrapper can just focus on translating to Vulkan Video, which should simplify things significantly.
vividspecter@lemm.eeto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly OutbreaksEnglish
28·11 months agoChuckles I’m in danger!
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Linux@lemmy.world•AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language ModelsEnglish
1·1 year agoIs it still a mess? I thought it was reasonably well supported on Linux with GPUs from the past few years.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Cancelled Sega Neptune Rises From The Dead, Gets Its Own Promo VideoEnglish
71·1 year agoAstronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
vividspecter@lemm.eeto
News@lemmy.world•RFK Jr sparks alarm after backing vitamins to treat measles amid outbreak
19·1 year agoAlso they don’t work. Therefore, they have no value to society.
Of course, Republicans are working to make sure that children are sent to the factories and mines once more.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Digging into claim that Obama created DOGE and Trump just renamed itEnglish
8·1 year agobut gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts
s/find the receipts/gut the government
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News@lemmy.world•Dow tumbles more than 600 points, S&P 500 posts biggest loss since December as Trump says tariffs will proceed
4·1 year agoDon’t forget infrastructure week. Surely this will be the week?
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What is the best looking retro console or PC?English
3·1 year agoThe headphone port on the Model 1 was so ahead of its time. Although I was stuck without an extension chord for my Koss Porta Pros (so couldn’t actually use it), it was my first taste of relatively high quality sound.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What is the best looking retro console or PC?English
18·1 year agoThe Sega Saturn, especially the Japan version:

Although I never owned this model myself, I recently picked up an 8bitdo replica (M30 bluetooth) of the Japan controller and it looks and feels great, although not strictly a direct copy of the original.
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News@lemmy.world•Vice President JD Vance is skiing in Vermont, and the locals have opinions about that
19·1 year agoYeah, see the temper tantrum he threw during the meeting with Zelensky. They were just desperate to get a rise out of him, and they couldn’t even manage that.














They are violating the GPL by not including source code for their modifications. I’m not sure about using the word “stolen” in this context though, but I suppose language evolves.
A dick move in any case.