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RIF will also shut down on June 30th (old.reddit.com)

After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.

Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update (www.reddit.com)

Robot dog sniffs out fire ants without the painful sting (www.popsci.com)

Apollo for Reddit is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

whelp, there it is

Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (is.mpg.de)

They Used To Be A Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More (hackaday.com)

Glad I moved away at version 7 to kicad, but it's sad to see. Don't think anyone is surprised though

From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You (themarkup.org)

Free online courses/YouTube series on the technologies of the Industrial Revolution?

The most in-depth video I was able to find regarding the invention of the steam engine spends 15 minutes on the topic. I can safely say that steam, iron, coal and pistons are involved, but I never learned what a piston is (I know they exist and are in engines) in school, so I can't grok the engine as a whole because of the...

Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances (public.flourish.studio)

A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances.

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him (www.eff.org)

SimpleX messenger / secure messaging (social.lol)

Techlore gives an interesting short video on why he doesn't recommend SimpleX right now....

Apollo will close down on June 30th. (www.reddit.com)

The Rise and Fall of the Norwegian Computer (www.youtube.com)

What are some Gemini and Gopher sites that are good?

Looking to find more indie/small-web content to replace big tech sites. I enjoy Lemmy and Mastodon, but does anyone know any good Gemini and Gopher protocol sites that actively post content?

Going for broke: How Twitter under Elon Musk makes plain the limits of luck (roadmapmag.com)

Pakistan’s 4-day internet shutdown was the final straw for its tech workers (restofworld.org)

Pakistan is becoming a case study on how tech workers are impacted by political instability. Many now want out.

Watch a ‘flying fish’ drone hover in the air and then swim underwater (www.popsci.com)

Android’s distribution numbers remain as depressing as ever (www.androidpolice.com)

Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?

First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?