[DISC] Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru ~Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan datta no ni, Taiseishita Deshi-tachi ga Ore wo Hottekurenai Ken~ - Ch 23 (gdscans.com)
Afghan girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)
The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets – were accused of “spreading and encouraging others to wear a bad hijab” and wearing makeup....
Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories (www.theguardian.com)
Predictably, it’s the 15-minute-city conspiracy crap.
Tachiyomi War begins (twitter.com)
libcamera v0.2.0 released! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
[DISC] Onna no Ko ga Iru Basho wa - chapter 2 (mangadex.org)
More Than Half of the World Will Be Obese By 2035, Report Says (time.com)
Discovery of immense fortifications dating back 4,000 years in northwestern Arabia (phys.org)
The North Arabian Desert oases were inhabited by sedentary populations in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. A fortification enclosing the Khaybar Oasis—one of the longest known going back to this period—has just been revealed by a team of scientists from the CNRS and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU)....
[DISC] Chainsaw Man — Ch. 152 — Massage (mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp)
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat — is climate change making it worse? (www.nature.com)
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)
Medieval grave of 'very, very powerful' man and his 4-foot-long sword unearthed in Sweden (www.livescience.com)
Armed gang storms Ecuador TV station as state of ‘internal armed conflict’ declared (www.theguardian.com)
Truly the most important stuff is Culture War (lemm.ee)
How difficult is it to understand (lemm.ee)
Solene'% : NovaCustom NV41 laptop review (dataswamp.org)
Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated in any way to any of the parties involved in this review. I just enjoy reading Solène’s writings in general and found myself to be especially in fond of this specific article. I share this in the hopes that others might somehow benefit from this as well!...
[DISC] Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World chapter 186 - 187 (survivaloftheswordking.com)
Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight Android keyboard. (github.com)
The gesture support for additional signs is quite nice, but probably annoying if you are used to swipe keyboards.
[Crosspost] "Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex..." (lemmy.world)
Skeletor loves you and wants you to live (lemmy.cafe)
"The Mandalorian & Grogu", a new Star Wars film directed by Jon Favreau, will enter the production phase later this year. (www.starwars.com)
What do we make of this?
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: ‘Putin does not want a frozen conflict, or peace’ (english.elpais.com)
On February 1, the EU will again discuss a €50 billion financial lifeline for Ukraine — currently blocked by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — while another similar aid package remains frozen in Washington. Kuleba believes the funds will come. “We do not have a plan B,” he insists.
The many faces behind remittances: ‘Every week I sent them money so that they could eat what we were not able to’ (english.elpais.com)
In 2022, the last full year on record, remittances from migrants to their countries of origin amounted to $647 billion, according to the World Bank, which estimated $656 billion for 2023 last June. These figures showed no sign of abating during the pandemic and nor will they decrease in the coming years, according to the...
