Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News (www.404media.co)
Ukrainian watchmaker fixes Newfoundland clock tower that hasn't told time in decades | CTV (www.ctvnews.ca)
DIY Espresso (www.fourbardesign.com)
High pressure, high forces, long lever arms...all of that meant heavy and strong (read: expensive) parts which I was not looking forward to having to fabricate. Instead, I settled on the simpler idea of harnessing the power of compressed gas. Instead of using a high mechanical advantage lever to push a piston, compressed CO2...
Patience (lemmy.zip)
It is very important that you all know that Sarah Silverman made out with Tim Russ during the time she was on Voyager. (www.cinemablend.com)
I kissed him [Robert Duncan McNeill] at the end of the episode, and he was standing on an apple box because God forbid you’re the same height as the girl. And then, I made out with him [Tim Russ] in real life....
"Beijing’s lack of good faith is the first problem:" China will try to manipulate a U.N. human rights review in January which may even worsen the situation in China, experts warn (thediplomat.com)
A United Nations review of China’s human rights record set to occur in January should shine a light on Beijing’s atrocity crimes, but China will play the game to their favor which may actually worsen rather than improve the human rights situation inside China, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) warns....
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' suggests woman died due to enslavement or suspected sorcery in colonial Indonesia (www.livescience.com)
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying. (slate.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/51 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
‘I’m very proud of him’: Sebastien Lai on Hong Kong, accountability and his father Jimmy’s trial (www.theguardian.com)
"There is that idea that we always thought China would liberalise economically, get freer and freer,” says Lai. “But I think Dad realised very early on, and he said in an interview, that wishful thinking doesn’t work. You’ve got to put the work in. And that’s what he did.”...
This week in KDE: Holiday bug fixes (pointieststick.com)
The Wine development release 9.0-rc3 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
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....
Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)
Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.
Guess this little piggy's age (lemmy.today)
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....
Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas: the Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war (www.thenation.com)
The intelligence failures that allowed the October 7 attack to take place have received some press attention—but have yet to be the focus of sustained political ire....
When you have a heart disease and will die alone and fat (lemmy.today)
ESP8266 Pinout : Comprehensive Guide to the GPIO Pins (azadtechhub.com)
The ESP8266 pinout refers to the arrangement and functionality of the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins on the ESP8266 module. The ESP8266 is a popular and versatile Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller board widely used in the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems projects. Its GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins...
Avistaz open to register (avistaz.to)
AvistaZ (AsiaTorrents) is a Private Torrent Tracker for ASIAN MOVIES / TV / GENERAL...
What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of? (kbin.social)
It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.
Gaza war's staggering toll reaches a grim milestone: 20,000 dead (apnews.com)
DeKalb Township (Illinois) awards $187K to local nonprofits to serve area residents (www.shawlocal.com)
It's got flair. (mander.xyz)
Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)
With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...
