Just had the Steam Survey pop up and so as always decided to participate and quickly look at some of the stats. I was honestly a bit surprised to see Windows 11 drop by 10.43% in February. Year of Linux Desktop now lol?

NASA live: Follow live television broadcasts on NASA+, the agency’s streaming service, and NASA’s social media channels with this schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches and landings.

The King’s Guard adopted the penguin as their mascot in 1972 during a visit to Edinburgh for the annual Military Tattoo. The tradition has stuck and each time the Guards visit the city, Nils Olav is promoted and invited to inspect the troops once more.

Art by Seanseanseanse

I needed a square version of the progress pride flag, and this is what I came up with. Somebody from !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone recommended I post it here.

“These ships are undetectable by radar, highly mobile, and, in the event of enemy attack, can be easily replaced with a foot pump and a bit of patience,” he said.

It’s not over yet, but it’s inching nearer to the end.

James Broadnax has been locked up in a 6ft-by-10ft cell on death row in Texas for more than 16 years, and in that time he has developed coping mechanisms for passing the long and desolate days.

Luigi Mangione’s much anticipated federal trial stemming from the murder of a top healthcare executive on a Manhattan street was tentatively delayed to 5 October.

Did this as a background for my phone.

House Republicans announced today that they will pass a bill, advanced by the Senate last week, to end the record-breaking partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, which has lasted 47 days so far.

I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that.

Took this one near a waterfall off a service road at the base of Mt. Rainier.

A fake email. It reads: From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC] Remove IPv4 support from kernel, effective next merge window Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2025 10:42:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20250815-drop-ipv4@linux-foundation.org>

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116330105563818936

https://archive.ph/nWRiH

The Swiss government will ​continue to withhold payments to the ‌United States for a Patriot missile system order until Washington provides binding delivery dates, adding that terminating the purchase ​is an option, it said on Wednesday.

Not sure how long it had been there! It had no smell 🤔

T-4hrs from time of post

me eating popcorn and watching intensifies

Unfortunately for russia, NOT an April Fool’s joke headline.

You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019.

All of these issues are from today.

The diseases were removed from a list of tests the agency conducts for state and local health departments. Experts worry that with drastic staff reductions, the testing may not resume.

i can’t even block them on the client i use. wtf is this and how can we stop it?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66238085

Batteries have become much cheaper, making energy storage far more affordable.