Retired .NET enterprise software developer and computing nerd.
Bachelor of Arts dual-degrees in Mathematics and Psychology.
Neurodivergent and “medically frail”.
Pakistani-Irish-American, Radical Moderate, and (illiterate) Muslim.
Occasional enjoyer of kayaking and sport touring by car or motorcycle.
Connoisseur of science fiction and national-chain pizza.
Looking for ways to give back to the community.
HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Mastodon monoculture problem (rys.io)
KDE Plasma 6: Better Defaults (pointieststick.com)
Plasma 6 looks to be shaping up quite nicely already! Some really nice quality of life style updates, and I'm quite shocked (though the reasoning makes sense) to see them moving to double-click actions by default instead of single-click.
New research aims to bring odors into virtual worlds (www.technologyreview.com)
Talk about having a 200ms ping... (lemmy.ml)
Millennials and early Gen Z of Lemmy, what did you do for fun before phones became such a huge part of our lives?
I keep cutting out things like social media from my lifestyle, but I'm finding it hard to fill the time. Reading can only go so far, there's never anything on TV, and my friends all live twelve miles away....
FOSS App Store for iOS?
I've been hearing a lot about Apple being forced to allow sideloading on iPads and iPhones in Europe, which of course opens up opportunities for developers to use non-WebKit browser engines and to use non-permissive software licenses (such as the GPL), as they are no-longer restricted by the App Store....
A company in Germany specialised on building fences now also builds solar fences ☀️ (www.reddit.com)
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are. (www.theguardian.com)
‘Staggering number of adults turning to petty theft’ amid rising food prices (www.inverness-courier.co.uk)
KDE Plasma 5.27.5 Improves Flatpak Permissions Page, System Settings, and More (9to5linux.com)
Clouds Carry Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, New Study Finds (medium.com)
New Surveys of Asian Americans Show Persistent Racism and Hardship: Almost 80% of Asian Americans didn’t fully feel they belong and are accepted (archive.ph)
The colonization of Hawaii, told by an actual Hawaiian (twitter.com)
The latest BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index shows food prices soared by 15.7% in UK, the highest on record, in April. (www.standard.co.uk)
Your boss has no idea what productivity means (www.vox.com)
r/technology
Benefits of Drupal Gutenberg for Content Editors (www.amazeelabs.com)
Enhance your Editorial Experience with Drupal Gutenberg. Simple to implement, cost-effective and fast to load, it's evolving rapidly, bringing huge EX improvements.
Looming behind antibiotic resistance is another bacterial threat – antibiotic tolerance (theconversation.com)
Trump is now a legally defined sexual predator – will it affect his 2024 bid? (www.theguardian.com)
A mystery of Donald Trump’s US presidency was the absence of a major sex scandal. The thrice-married billionaire who boasted on Access Hollywood that women let him “grab ’em by the pussy’” seemed to commit every abuse of power except the kind that nearly brought down Bill Clinton....