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Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts (www.vox.com)

TL;DR: Norway subsidised electric cars a lot, that money went to the rich more than the poor, and left them with less money to spend on transit which delivers better outcomes for cities.

Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery are in early talks to merge (archive.today)

Googly LaForge (static1.srcdn.com)

They have a strong psychic connection (doomscroll.n8e.dev)

It's finally over. (scontent.find2-1.fna.fbcdn.net)

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

Suburban Cycling Myths Busted: It's Closer Than You Think (yt.artemislena.eu)

I hope I put the correct amount of eyes on in the morning. (lemm.ee)

Australian privacy watchdog refuses to investigate employer that allegedly accessed worker’s personal emails (www.theguardian.com)

Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)

A recap of the 2023 Noble Prizes (mander.xyz)

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Eight lucky ladies! (preview.redd.it)

SNW is good at least (sh.itjust.works)

Larian Studios Reveals Impressive Optimization Efforts for Xbox Series S Port of Baldur's Gate 3 - IGN (www.ign.com)

Larian Studios founder and CEO has shared a positive update on the Xbox Series S port for Baldur's Gate 3, revealing it has significantly decreased the amount of RAM and VRAM the game uses.

ESP8266 Pinout : Comprehensive Guide to the GPIO Pins (azadtechhub.com)

The ESP8266 pinout refers to the arrangement and functionality of the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins on the ESP8266 module. The ESP8266 is a popular and versatile Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller board widely used in the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems projects. Its GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins...

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Why there aren't ad blocking apps on Google Play (adguard.com)

The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.

Invisible 👌 (sh.itjust.works)

What Lies Beneath the Vatican of the Zapotecs? | NYT (www.nytimes.com)

D-Bus overview (fedoramagazine.org)

8-25-23 www.thefarside.com (lemm.ee)

NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America (www.planetizen.com)

New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....