Study.

Young men were reached 2.3 times more than women across Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram, even if the ads were not directly targeting men.

The age group most exposed to gambling advertising was 25 to 34-year-olds, who accounted for over a third of all unique accounts reached, a total of more than 6.2 million impressions.

Google is trying to put an end to the copyright liability claim in its textbook piracy battle with several academic publishers. In a motion for partial judgment filed in a New York federal court, Google argues that the recent Supreme Court ruling in Cox v. Sony has effectively killed the copyright liability arguments. That is, unless the publishers can prove Google specifically "induced" infringement or built a service "tailored" exclusively for piracy.

The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

Mint is a goto debian distro, but I switched from Debian unstable to mint and my experience is worse. PulseAudio is wierd, when suspensing last 1 sec of audio loops, crashes, Mint is based on testing irc.

Today’s game is Unturned. I feel like this game has a pretty decent presence on the internet, but just to be safe, unturned is a Free Zombie survival game. It’s got some low budget graphics, but being free it’s got a surprising amount of depth to it I feel like. The developer supports it still from time to time, though I’m unsure if that’s including Major updates.

Nonetheless, I set up a server for me and my friends to play on. It was a surprisingly easy process, there’s a wiki out there walking me through it, and while it did require quite a bit of command line stuff I eventually got it set up.

The initial start is definitely the hardest part. It’s no Zomboid but if you get cocky you will probably die. I had issues with getting bit and bleeding to death, so definitely keep rags on you at all times. And don’t be like me and fill your inventory completely with weapons. You’ll be well armed but if you get hungry or injured it’s gonna be a bad time. It felt kind of like trying to get a grip on an icy cliff. Really hard but once you get up there you aren’t gonna fall down unless you start being stupid.

Me and my friend spent a while trying to meet up. We eventually ran into each other but split apart again after he started building a base and I went into Moscow for supplies. I found a bike I took into town, but it ran out of gas part way through and I had to walk around town.

Remember my advice about not getting cocky? Yeah. I learned that the hard way. It was a blood moon and I stabbed a zombie, pissed another one off and then had 6 more on me all while I was bleeding out. I died and dropped all my stuff. That was when I got off because I had a friend asking to play Stardew Valley.

Overall I think it’s a good time. Definitely better multiplayer, then again there is a bit of fun to be had single player, I know i definitely had a lot growing up.

Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages

Confrontées à la baisse des ventes et à la concurrence d’Amazon, les librairies indépendantes françaises demeurent pourtant des lieux essentiels de culture, de découverte littéraire et de diversité éditoriale.

Publié le 8 avril 2025, mis à jour le 28 avril 2026.

PS: By definition this was always going to attract downvotes, so I'll pay no attention to that. I just want to be clear about one thing: this proposed feature would (obviously) be read-only and opt-in. It is just a development of the existing block feature. It would affect nobody except those who choose to use it.

PPS: I was originally going to submit it to Lemmy issue tracker but I prefer not to use Microsoft Github so for now I'm putting it here instead.

This is a general proposal that concerns Lemmy specifically, but also other forum-alike software that uses ActivityPub, such as Piefed.

For me, the original sin of social media is downvoting (rant incoming). Specifically, its rampant misuse as a "Me no like!!" button. Apart from conveying totally uninteresting information (i.e. a subjective binary opinion), downvoting encourages schoolyard social dynamics and discourages heterodox views (and therefore debate). The nearest in-person equivalent (saying "shut up") is universally considered rude. At scale, the effect of downvoting is to brutalize a community that might otherwise be pleasant and welcoming. I believe this practice is almost always toxic and poisonous. Those who defend it (in good faith, I do not doubt) need to consider the possibility that it has helped to homogenize their communities into people like them (to caricature: insensitive males). Most ordinary people do not participate actively in social media. There's a reason for that.

No, this is not a popular position here (cf. selection bias) and so it will of course be... downvoted. But it's how I see it. I like to think that I've added some value to the fediverse with my contributions, but if there's one thing that regularly causes me to consider leaving, it's this. Going to Beehiv or Blahaj-whatsit is not a solution, because the communities I'm interested in are not there. Hiding downvote scores does not work because... it does not hide the downvoters.

Which gave me an idea. Given that the identity of downvoters is technically public, I propose a new setting: "Auto-block downvoters". That's it. Automatically hide comments (or posts, or anything) by users who have downvoted your contributions. Logical, no? They don't care for what I have to say, and I don't care for their inane negativity. It's win-win! Lots of possible variants:

• Hide [ subsequent | all ] comments by users who have downvoted [ a post | a comment | anything ] by you [ in this thread | on this post | in this community | everywhere]
• Hide [etc] by users with an upvote-downvote ratio lower than [ X ]% etc

Such a setting (especially #1) would immeasurably improve my experience of Lemmy. No exaggeration. I like to think it might also serve as a subtle incentive for users to be more generous and tolerant in their behavior towards others, but that is secondary.

Pussy

Let's hope it's actually true.

If you’re one of millions using element-data, it’s time to check for compromise.

On Friday, unknown attackers exploited the vulnerability to push a new version of element-data, a command-line interface that helps users monitor performance and anomalies in machine-learning systems. When run, the malicious package scoured systems for sensitive data, including user profiles, warehouse credentials, cloud provider keys, API tokens, and SSH keys, developers said. The malicious version was tagged as 0.23.3 and was published to the developers’ Python Package Index and Docker image accounts. It was removed about 12 hours later, on Saturday. Elementary Cloud, the Elementary dbt package, and all other CLI versions weren’t affected.

I always wanted to play this game as a kid but never played. At age 22 it doesn't give pleasure anymore lol.

Anyway, enjoy it:

https://archive.org/details/police-force-2

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8346878

https://x.com/wanderjegson/status/2048447115781632278

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41873102

Wizards have joined the party!