Phoronix – AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop

Oct 062022
 

One of the rather elusive items on the Linux desktop is High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support… There’s been code in the works for years but across desktops and drivers, it’s still a long-term effort getting HDR support on the Linux desktop. Even going back to 2016, with NVIDIA’s cross-platform driver code the Linux desktop remained the bottleneck. There is at least some ongoing work to address this long-term issue with AMD this week presenting on the topic…

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Ars Technica – Adafruit’s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy

Oct 062022
 

The clever folks at Adafruit tested their Cheekmate chess-cheating prototype by embedding it in a slab of pork butt.
The Internet has been abuzz for weeks about a particularly juicy chess cheating controversy that erupted last month. The reigning chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, lost in the third round to a 19-year-old upstart, Hans Niemann, in what was widely considered to be a shocking upset. Carlsen withdrew from the tournament the next day, and his cryptic comments on Twitter fueled rampant speculation that Niemann had cheated. The fact that Niemann admitted to cheating in online chess matches didn’t help his case, but he steadfastly insisted he never cheated in over-the-board games.
The fierce debate eventually produced…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – IBEW acknowledges problems with ballots for rail contract but refuses to conduct re-vote

Oct 062022
 

According to multiple workers who belong to the IBEW and who personally spoke to IBEW Railroad Department head Al Russo via telephone in recent days, the IBEW has acknowledged that a significant number of ballots were not properly sent to workers.

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – New York Times acknowledges Ukraine behind assassination of Darya Dugina

Oct 062022
 

Can it be that the Times report indicates US concern over the political fallout from a more recent operation that is of far greater international consequence than the Moscow assassination? The unexplained bombing of the Nordstream pipeline comes to mind.

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Streetsblog.org – How The Traffic Violence Pandemic Is Creating A Silent Mental Health Crisis

Oct 062022
 

The global traffic violence pandemic that claims over a million lives every year is also spawning a devastating global mental health crisis that could itself be making traffic violence trends worse — and researchers say policymakers must do more to prevent car crashes and the psychological impacts that often follow them.
As part of a comprehensive literature review of 20 years’ worth of peer-reviewed studies from around the world, a team of Brazilian researchers found that road users are at significantly increased risk of post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety after surviving motor vehicle collisions — and those who experience more serious crashes experience more serious psychological impacts as well.
That might not seem surprising, given that researchers have…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – IBEW acknowledges problems with ballots for rail contact but refuses to conduct re-vote

Oct 062022
 

According to multiple workers who belong to the IBEW and who personally spoke to IBEW Railroad Department head Al Russo via telephone in recent days, the IBEW has acknowledged that a significant number of ballots were not properly sent to workers.

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Techdirt. – Court Strips Immunity From Cop Who Shot A Dog Within Seconds Of Arriving On The Scene Of A Non-Crime

Oct 062022
 

Cops kill dogs literally all the time. It happens so often even the DOJ has taken notice.

Laurel Matthews, a supervisory program specialist with the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (DOJ COPS) office, says it’s an awful lot. She calls fatal police vs. dogs encounters an “epidemic” and estimates that 25 to 30 pet dogs are killed each day by law enforcement officers.

So, when Loveland (CO) police officer Matthew Grashorn arrived on the scene of a non-crime, he did what cops do: he killed someone’s dog. This killing happened only 13 seconds after Officer Grashorn arrived, something confirmed by his own body camera recording.
Colorado residents Wendy Love and Jay Hamm had done nothing more…

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