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KDE KWin Merge Request For Triple Buffering (invent.kde.org)

Phoronix: www.phoronix.com/…/KDE-KWin-Triple-Buffering-MR...

Animal shelter in Pennsylvania empty for first time in 47 years (www.theguardian.com)

Just in time for Christmas, Adams county SPCA adopts out 598 animals and reunites 125 with their owners...

New York court: Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors (english.elpais.com)

A court in New York has ruled that UC Global and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) violated the constitutional rights and privacy of U.S. citizens when they met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London....

Sold to Salafism: The millions for which Golf-pro Jon Rahm sold himself to Saudi Arabia hide tortured citizens, executed minors, women sentenced to perpetual confinement, and enslaved foreign workers (english.elpais.com)

They will tell us that they are just athletes chasing or hitting balls, but by agreeing to do so in exchange for the huge amounts of money paid to them by Saudi Arabia, they are becoming political actors in a regime that spreads its anti-democratic values throughout the world....

For Tampa Bay seniors with nothing under the Christmas tree, a wish granted (www.tampabay.com)

Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages' | CBC (www.cbc.ca)

A Guide to PGP Encryption on Windows (purplerabbit.gitlab.io)

Well, the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Fed to the station and I hit the ground running (static1.srcdn.com)

Jjimdak (Korean braised chicken) (crazykoreancooking.com)

Fantastic dish. I made this tonight. Oddly enough I never had this dish growing up. I subbed in daikon for the potato since we had it on hand....

Because I said so (mander.xyz)

Florida Man Wants $2 Million From Rockstar Over Parody Appearance In GTA6 Trailer (www.techdirt.com)

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1870s. (lemmy.world)

Excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge has always been an icon. When its massive stone towers began rising in the early 1870s, photographers and illustrators began documenting what was considered the most daring and astounding engineering feat of the era....

GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads (noyb.eu)

Steam Workshop: New Quality of Life Workshop Features (steamcommunity.com)

Blazed Cloud - Your Simple and Minimal Cloud Storage Solution (blazedcloud.com)

Thoughts on this....

Ghosts on the Glacier (www.nytimes.com)

'Signs of life': Sycamore Gap tree will live on, experts say (www.npr.org)

I like Leonard Nimoy's sense of humor. (www.slashfilm.com)

It seems that the makeup artists on “Star Trek,” without asking beforehand, shaved off Craig’s eyebrows before applying her makeup. Craig was merely laying still in the makeup chair, so it seems the makeup artists could have sandblasted her face and she wouldn’t have noticed. Craig had never shaved her eyebrows before,...

The “Hunt for Hamas” Narrative Is Obscuring Israel’s Real Plans for Gaza (www.thenation.com)

America’s media and political class is analyzing, debating, and shaping a narrative in Gaza that’s entirely different from the one being discussed in Israeli media and among Israeli political leaders. This gap, born from casual racism, deliberate credulity, and reflexive alignment with the US government’s party line, is...

Techrights — The Effort to Silence (Squash) GNU/Linux Advocates and Press Coverage (techrights.org)

THE Google ‘News’ (Gulag Noise [1, 2]) mentions of “Linux” diminish again, partly because sites that used to cover GNU/Linux every day suddenly stopped a few weeks ago (our coverage of it had struck a nerve, attracting about 3,000 readers). No need to shame the publisher or anything (it had done a great job until it...