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Taking care of the plant (by u/Green____cat, via @wholesomememes@botsin.space) (botsin.space)

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Perkeep - A set of tools and data formats to make sure that we can be in control of our data. (perkeep.org)

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

LOL....

Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games (kotaku.com)

Light is light 🤷 (sh.itjust.works)

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)

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....

Using Todoist as a cloud inbox for GTD in Emacs orgmode (srijan.ch)

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

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

Phoronix

Some wealthier Chinese say they can't afford marriage as economy slows (www.reuters.com)

Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/11100201...

Iran says it has launched attacks on what it calls militant bases in Pakistan (apnews.com)

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...

What it was like inside the last living room caucus (ghostarchive.org)

ghostarchive.org/…/15iowa-caucuses-living-room-01…Sharon McNutt spent much of Caucus Day on Monday baking fresh cherry-chip cookies, cleaning bathroom sinks and taking her coffee pot out of storage....

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)

Mini Fundraiser: Stream Deck Plus for Boatswain support (feaneron.com)

Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, the GNOME dev behind Boatswain, started a fundraiser to get the new Elgato Stream Deck Plus, so they can add support for it in the app, since Elgato offered no support for them.