Coral kickstart: Reefs get injection of funds at COP28 to stave off extinction (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Conlangs — A community for discussing constructed languages and language creation (kbin.social)
This magazine has existed for a while, but it's now under new moderation. Come over to share & discuss conlangs!...
MFW They Say I Came From Another Dimension (youtube.com)
Little known fact (imgur.com)
It’s a Christmas Miracle — You Can Now Use Raspberry Pi OS in Dark Mode (www.raspberrypi.com)
It’s now been a little under two months since the release of the Wayland-based Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm. Whenever we do a major version release like this, we invariably spend the next few weeks fixing all the bugs that real users have found but our pre-release testing didn’t, and then make a bug-fix release with them...
How 'listening' to archaeological sites could shed light on the past (phys.org)
Until recently, archaeologists have mostly relied on what they can see at the sites of ancient ruins to unlock the secrets of the past. But lately, new methods have started to allow researchers to use other senses to explore these sites in different ways....
Reno Is Beating the Odds in Solving Homelessness (www.wsj.com)
The “Biggest Little City in the World” is earning a new distinction: one of the few cities in the West to get large numbers of homeless off its streets....
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion (www.phoronix.com)
Friday’s release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It’s coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time....
Dealing w/ Gov requests for push notifications (simplifiedprivacy.com)
We posted a recent Vice article about the US government requesting nearly all Apple and Google push notifications:...
Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed twin temples built on top of each other. The newer, Hellenistic temple dates to the fourth century B.C. and may have a link to Alexander the Great....
Ancient Balkan genomes trace the rise and fall of Roman Empire's frontier, reveal Slavic migrations (phys.org)
A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic change....
New Surgeon General Advisory Raises Alarm about the Devastating Impact of the Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation in the United States (www.hhs.gov)
Alpine Linux 3.19 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS and Raspberry Pi 5 Support (alpinelinux.org)
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Inhabited Beauty - For beautiful pictures of still-inhabited towns, cities, and other architecture (kbin.social)
Inhabited Beauty...
100 Million Firmware Updates Supplied By The LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes (blogs.gnome.org)
Nepal calls on Russia not to deploy its Gurkhas in Ukraine war (www.independent.co.uk)
Afghan Hazara refugees live in fear of being deported by Pakistan (www.bbc.com)
Global Conflict Tracker l Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org)
Israeli forces battle Hamas in southern Gaza, humanitarian concerns grow (www.reuters.com)
Switzerland returns marble head around 2,000 years old to Libya (www.africanews.com)
(Romanian) Ex-PM Florin Cîțu heard at the DNA in the Vaccine Case: I Complied with the Legislation In Force (www.romaniajournal.ro)
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