Seoul police chief charged over deadly 2022 Halloween crush (www.dw.com)
Critically endangered woylies making a comeback in south-west Western Australian's Batalling State Forest (www.abc.net.au)
Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
[Platform Tilt] tracks technical issues in major software platforms which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser. We consider aspects like security, stability, performance, and functionality, and propose changes to create a more level playing field....
Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol (www.phoronix.com)
The Linux DMA-BUF protocol for Wayland is widely used these days and supported by multiple compositors for negotiating optimal buffer allocation parameters between clients and compositors. The current fifth version of linux-dmabuf was marked as stable with it working out well and no need for any other changes before removing the...
Cape Verde reaches malaria-free milestone (www.bbc.com)
Cape Verde is an island nation off the coast of Africa. They are malaria free.
10,000-year-old burials from unknown hunter-gatherer group discovered in Brazil (www.livescience.com)
bpftime: Extending eBPF from Kernel to User Space (eunomia.dev)
Clarifying Misunderstandings of Slowroll (news.opensuse.org)
In Search of Anonymity: How to Ensure Freedom of Expression Online (www.thecanary.co)
The cat is staring at me again! (lemmus.org)
Mutts by Patrick McDonnell for 19 January, 2024.
Rights group calls for pressure of international community on Iranian regime to "halt imminent execution" of four ethnic Kurds (iranhumanrights.org)
In the midst of a surge in executions in Iran, four ethnic Kurds are on the brink of execution following 18 months of incognito detention since their arrest in July 2022....
Number of North Korean defectors entering South Korea more than triples in Jan.-Sept. 2023 period (m.koreatimes.co.kr)
After escaping the North, 139 North Koreans reached the South in the January-September 2023 period, sharply up from 42 from the same period 2022, according to Seoul’s unification ministry. In the third quarter, 40 defectors ― three men and 37 women ― came to the South....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/03 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Goodix Fingerprint Drivers (including 550a) - Found them! (github.com)
Out of frustration after hours digging and finding them, I want to share with anyone that needs them the working drivers for all the (ones I know) Goodix fingerprint drivers, usually found on Lenovo IdeaPad (like the IdeaPad 3 Slim) but also on other laptops....
The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians (www.nature.com)
Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia (www.nature.com)
Weekly Updates from Fedora's Marketer ‒ Week 1 (ko-fi.com)
Hey guys, I’ve finally started exploring talking about the work I’m doing with the Fedora Project as part of the marketing team and now as part of the design and magazine teams too! I really enjoy the “This Week in” style of weekly reports on all the work that is being done, so I’m looking forwards to sharing it like...
StarUML-Watermark-Removal | A tool for removing watermarks from diagrams created by StarUML™ software. (github.com)
[DISC] Rebuild World - Ch. 53 (mangadex.org)
Romanian farmers, hauliers ramp up protests, block Ukraine border access (libranet.de)
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when white people hear Boards of Canada ‼️ (farside.link)
Fingertip oxygen sensors can fail on dark skin — now a physician is suing (www.nature.com)
Remains of ‘lost’ bronze age tomb discovered in County Kerry in Ireland (www.theguardian.com)
The remnants of a bronze age tomb once thought to have been destroyed and lost to history have been discovered in County Kerry on the Atlantic coast of Ireland....
The history of the term Generation X is complicated and confusing. Boomers were the original Generation X. (en.wikipedia.org)
The term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth. In the early 1950s, Hungarian photographer Robert Capa first used Generation X as the title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately following World War II. The term first appeared in print in a December 1952 issue of...
Shiyu discovery reveals East Asia's advanced material culture dating to 45,000 years ago (phys.org)
Shiyu provides us with an opportunity to look into the life of the skillful hunters from northern China 45,000 years ago. The people inhabiting the region had a remarkably advanced tool kit, with a range of innovative tools from the Upper Paleolithic, including end-scrapers, awls, and tools of former times, including Middle...
