Sprites kbin instance - a private kbin install

Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

LOL....

Light is light 🤷 (sh.itjust.works)

Wine 9.0 is now available (gitlab.winehq.org)

Starting in the middle ages, they used to catch ducks and other waterfowl with a special building that was a big trap. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance (nitter.net)

Phoronix

Cat and Girl in "4,000 of My Closest Friends" (lemmus.org)

Cat and Girl for 16 January, 2024.

The AirDrop flaw exploited by China, explained (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

The news was already posted here last week, but I found this great technical explanation of the flaw. Long story short: Apple is using bad cryptography. They got alerted by researchers back in 2019 but didn’t fix it.

'I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid.' - Amol Rajan on how a University Challenge question spawned a remix craze (www.bbc.com)

Meta-Shit (lemmy.zip)

LibRedirect - privacy-friendly Redirector (libredirect.github.io)

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to their alternative privacy friendly frontends...

XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Even if your distro is using Wayland by default, the Xwayland implementation is probably still used for compatibility with X11 apps, so you still need to patch your systems and make sure that the latest version is installed.

On the Road to Plasma 6, Vol. 5 – Kai Uwe's Blog (blog.broulik.de)

Zero Jet Aircraft Crashes: 2023 Was One Of Aviation’s Safest Years On Record (simpleflying.com)

Re: Why don't people fight for their pirating rights? (www.reddit.com)

i was just banned from reddit for 3 days for “threatening violence” in this comment...

Just sayin (mander.xyz)

Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (aus.social)

plan for the now completed port of fish to rust

[es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites (cadenaser.com)

Age verification without name and surname: this is the way to avoid minors to watch porn.

Part of Hadrian's 1,800-year-old aqueduct and rare Greek coins unearthed near Corinth (www.livescience.com)

Archaeologists in Greece have unearthed part of one of the largest hydraulic projects from the ancient world: an aqueduct that the Roman emperor Hadrian built to supply water to the city of Corinth....

Display blacks out while opening and closing applications on Wayland KDE. (i.imgur.com)

I just got a AMD RX6600 because I was having issues with my old gtx 1660 super. It’s not a big upgrade but I got this card for $120 (and it was only lightly used for 5 months by the seller)....

‘It’s difficult to survive’: China’s LGBTQ+ advocates face jail and forced confession (www.theguardian.com)

In recent years, China’s LGBTQ+ community has been swept up in the Chinese Communist party’s broader crackdown on civil society and freedom of expression. In May 2023, a well known LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Beijing announced it was closing due to “unavoidable” circumstances. Last February, two university students filed a...

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