At COP28, 12,000 surveillance cameras are causing privacy concerns (www.euronews.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode is traumatizing players: “My heart couldn’t take this” - Charlie INTEL (www.charlieintel.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 players are shocked by how difficult Honour Mode turned out to be, especially for those who love to role-play.
Google loses antitrust case vs Epic Games. Jury rules Google Play store constitutes an illegal monopoly (www.theverge.com)
Predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions to automatically redirect popular sites to privacy friendly frontends (github.com)
It supports both links and embeds and is available on firefox for android. List of sites is on github. I’m the main developer so you can ask questions.
New attempt at a fediverse Buttcoin (awful.systems)
By popular local demand, we’ve started a Buttcoin over at awful.systems. I’m not sure federation to/from kbin.social works without glitches yet, but here’s hoping, cross fingers etc. We do know it federates OK to other Lemmy instances and some Mastodon instances.
Romanian Presidential Administration Refuses to Disclose Costs of Iohannis’ Africa Tour, Citing Classified Information (www.romaniajournal.ro)
romaniajournal.ro/politics/pre…
Understanding Intersectionality through LGBTQIA+/Queer Narratives in Azerbaijan | Feminism and Gender Democracy (feminism-boell.org)
Ramil writes about the urgency of intersectionality by studying the narratives of Azerbaijani LGBTQI+/queer individuals who have been facing multi-layered discrimination in Azerbaijan.
Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Woman Who Sought Court-Approved Abortion (www.nytimes.com)
Hours before the ruling, a group representing the woman, whose fetus received a fatal diagnosis, said she was leaving Texas for an abortion.
GitHub - G-dH/vertical-workspaces: V-Shell is a GNOME Shell extension that allows you to customize the layout and behavior of the Shell UI. (github.com)
Yesterday I made a post about PaperWM which is a scrollable tiling window manager extension for GNOME. Today, I had "lookup ‘window always on top’ " on my to do list for boring days. I couldn’t find anything and after 2 minutes I wondered why I am still searching for it because with the tiling window manager, I do not need...
The Term Alpha Male Is All A Lie (www.iflscience.com)
Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Law Banning Conversion Therapy (www.nytimes.com)
Washington State, like more than 20 other states, bars licensed therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors in their care.
If The world was divided into two Hemispheres each with their own faction. One being Shreks and the Other being Onions which one would you choose and why? (kbin.social)
I have to fill this out to? This thing has so many layers.
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....
‘Saw XI’ Announced By Lionsgate Along With 2024 Release Date (deadline.com)
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....
Roman 'backwater' bucked Empire's decline, archaeologists reveal (phys.org)
What Really Happened to JFK? (nymag.com)
Cartoons For Phobic People (ia800705.us.archive.org)
Baldur’s Gate 3 player blames Scratch for “embarrassing” Honour Mode loss - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
A BG3 player disappointingly failed their Honour Mode run thanks to Scratch deciding to go fetch at the worst possible moment.
Time for Plan B (lemmy.zip)
How cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger became the scents of winter holidays, far from their tropical origins (theconversation.com)
WatchMojo (lemmy.zip)
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)
Writing 101 by Behr, Moore, and Taylor (imgur.com)
I’m pretty sure i stole this joke, but it was definitely only about O’Brien. I’m here to expand that notion with my evidence of “The Visitor”.