Analysis of ancient Scythian leather samples shows two were made from human skin (phys.org)
A multi-institutional team of anthropologists has discovered that two pieces of ancient Scythian leather excavated at sites in Ukraine were made from human skin. In their project, reported on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group tested an account by the Greek historian Herodotus regarding certain behaviors of ancient...
An update on HDR and color management in KWin (zamundaaa.github.io)
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (www.nytimes.com)
A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.
'Unique' cave art discovered in Madagascar hints at connections with ancient Egypt and Borneo (www.livescience.com)
Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar....
The two party system is broken (lemmy.zip)
Jennifer Wojcik (@JenWojcik@mastodon.social) (mastodon.social)
[RECIPE] Holiday Stuffed Sweet Potato - with bacon, pecans & sage (www.recipetineats.com)
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'Complex' study into potential rock art damage raises concerns as researchers call for more time (www.abc.net.au)
GitHub - RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended: lidarr-extended :: Lidarr application packaged with multiple scripts to provide additional functionality (github.com)
This is gold. A script that automatically downloads music
1 Week After ‘The Day Before’ Launches, Fntastic Closes Its Doors For Business (www.techdirt.com)
Rust for Linux — in space [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
An EEVDF CPU scheduler for Linux [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (ubuntu.com)
In collaboration with Polar Signals we have committed that beginning with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, our GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) package will enable frame pointers by default for 64-bit platforms. All packages in Ubuntu, with very few exceptions, will be rebuilt with frame pointers enabled, making them easier to profile and...
In a First, Nations at Climate Summit Agree to Move Away From Fossil Fuels (www.nytimes.com)
Black Trowel Collective: Anarchist Archaeology Collective (blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com)
Social: archaeo.social/
At COP28, 12,000 surveillance cameras are causing privacy concerns (www.euronews.com)
Another source for officially translated light novels and manga (server.elscione.com)
I didn’t see this in the megathread but found this source. Seems to be regularly updated....
Epic Win Against Google (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Huge win for Epic Games in their court case against Google. The court decided that Google’s Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly and the case also challenged the transaction fees of up to 30% that Google imposes on Android app developers....
What Really Happened to JFK? (nymag.com)
Stop the surveillance power grab. Tell Congress to OPPOSE HPSCI’s Horrific Surveillance Bill and SUPPORT real reforms! (getfisaright.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/9011376...
Earliest Carpenters: The 476,000-year-old log structure predates the appearance of the first modern humans by some 150,000 years and was likely the handiwork of Homo heidelbergensis. (www.archaeology.org)
Long thought to be extinct in Kenya, giant pangolins are now being helped back from the brink (www.theguardian.com)
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Hungarian revolutionary holds a captured AK rifle in 1956. (lemmy.world)
The 1956 Hungarian revolution was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK rifle, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows an anti-Soviet Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes with a captured AK....
