Masks are out at In-N-Out after burger chain bans employees from wearing them in 5 states (apnews.com)
In-N-Out will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor’s note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media last week.
Experts: Jack Smith’s latest move means Trump can’t use Judge Cannon to prevent pre-election trial (www.salon.com)
D.C. judges are "fed up" with "Trump's maneuvers and sensitive to need to move quickly," ex-prosecutor says
White Supremacist Nick Fuentes Calls for “Holy War” Against Jews (newrepublic.com)
The far-right influencer, who once sat down for dinner with Donald Trump, made the comments at an “America First” rally.
Linux Mint 21.2 Released with Gesture Support, UI Changes & More (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Netflix Anti-Sharing in USA - It's Here (kbin.social)
My family shares our Netflix account. We live in different states, but all in the United States....
A relatively easy way to disable the "random posts" or "random threads" sections (desktop web browser) + suggestions for sidebar (kbin.social)
Step 1: Install uBlock Origin on your web browser....
AAA pulls back from offering insurance in Florida, following Farmers (www.cbsnews.com)
More insurance companies are fleeing the state because of the growing threat from natural disasters.
idea for discussion: federation of individual communities across instance (kbin.social)
I was thinking about how there are similar communities on different instances. In some cases that is desirable/ok but maybe it would be cool to have another option....
UK teachers want cash skills to replace religious studies lessons, study finds (uk.news.yahoo.com)
BRITAIN wants personal finance lessons to replace religious studies on the school curriculum, new national research reveals.
Big list of specialized instances (kbin.social)
Updated 2023-11-12...
kbin Enhancement Suite: a community-curated script manager that lets you customize your kbin experience (kbin.social)
A couple of weeks ago, @shazbot made this post about a project that they were working on. Since then, @shazbot, @ori, @minnieo and I have been hard at work, and we are excited to finally announce the official release of kbin Enhancement Suite (KES)!...
Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone (www.birds.cornell.edu)
A new study finds steep, long-term losses across virtually all groups of birds in the U.S. and Canada
Changes you would love to see in PHP?
To lighten up some discussion here, I would like to ask what features or changes you would love to see in future PHP versions? We know that in recent versions a lot of nice adjustments were added, but I bet most of us dreams for more....
The revolt against reality: Harassment of scientists is escalating (onlysky.media)
From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
Defederation, Threads and You (kbin.social)
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
UFOs can ‘fly underwater and defy physics’ claims US congressman (www.express.co.uk)
East Tennessee's Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to "turn us into a charcoal briquette".
Kbin keeps logging me out, while I'm actively using the site - I go to make a comment or something and it doesn't work; logging back in automatically redirects me to the front page. (kbin.social)
This is really annoying. Does anyone else have this problem?
Kbin notifications (kbin.social)
After some time missing an app, I managed to really like Kbin even on my browser, specially with some mods (my favourites are Kbin Usability Pack and Kbin Subscriptions Panel), but I really miss notifications for interactions on my posts and comments....
The cool way consoles/terminals work on the Hurd (floss.social)
It’s been a wild week for the open social web (dev.to)
Kbin.cafe on Blocking Meta's New Threads App (kbin.cafe)
For those who aren't aware, Kbin Cafe is a Kbin instance I run. Cross-posting our stance on Threads for visibility....
We really need a way to block communities on mobile without having to actually enter them. (kbin.social)
I’m sure there are ways to do this on desktop, but in mobile, as far as I can tell, if I come across a nsfw community on my thread and I want to block I, I can’t do that without first clicking on the link to the community feed.
Small list of userscripts that improve the Kbin experience (kbin.social)
I've been trying out several userscripts for Kbin recently, which have made the website way more enjoyable than it already was. I wanted to share them with my fellow Kbin users....
Is Kbin defederated from Lemmy.ml? (kbin.social)
I noticed that a lot of the communities that are hosted on there only have posts from a week ago. Thought they were just a bit dead, but checked on their original instance and saw they're more lively than that it's just not showing up on Kbin.