Venezuela opposition calls for global protests – DW – 08/12/2024 (www.dw.com)
cliff dive into lake (clips.twitch.tv)
Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support (arstechnica.com)
Back in July 2022, when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and well-regarded Nova Launcher for Android, the app’s site put up one of those self-directed FAQ posts about it. Under the question heading “What does Branch want with Nova?,” Nova founder and creator Kevin Barry started his response with, “Not...
Young Jewish man stabbed in NYC by attacker yelling ‘Free Palestine’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
A young Jewish man was stabbed early Saturday morning near the Chabad movement’s headquarters in New York City by a man yelling “Free Palestine,” according to a local rabbi who said he knows the victim, as well as CCTV footage of the incident published online....
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Developer Deep Dive (youtu.be)
Good hunting, Stalker.
US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Mallu Magalhães - Velha e Louca [WP says indie folk, MPB, pop, but I'm also getting nice Rickie-Lee-Jones-"Chuck-E.'s-in-Love" vibes from it] (2011) (vimeo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18461837...
Zelensky confirms Ukrainian troops are fighting inside Russian territory (www.cnn.com)
CNN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed Kyiv’s troops are fighting inside Russia, days into the surprise Ukrainian cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region that has become a major embarrassment for the Kremlin....
Lorde - Royals cover in Old English. Bardcore/Medieval style (www.youtube.com)
Fortunate son - Creedence Clearwater Revival (A medieval cover) (www.youtube.com)
Why Kevin Conroy’s Batman Is Peak (www.youtube.com)
How to install .deb on Pop_OS
Could never figure it out, same with anything that isn’t a flatpak from the popshop
The Putin Magnet: the GRU spy and the women who loved him - VSquare.org (vsquare.org)
All of Poland heard about his arrest and expulsion, and moreover, there was global media interest in González. What no one knows is that there is an important element missing from the spy story: it involves someone else, too....
Prank calls don't really exist anymore with caller ID and everyone sending unknown numbers to voicemail.
I was listening to a Weird Al song about prank calls and realized you can’t really do them anymore now. Also it was funny that he mentioned dialing 7 digit numbers instead of 10
NBC archive footage shows Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992 (youtu.be)
Israel spokesperson accuses BBC’s Mishal Husain of pro-Palestinian bias (www.theguardian.com)
I'm at a loss on what server to buy
I’m pretty new to self-hosting, and the NAS I’m using right now has been a pain since the moment I bought it. The Synology DS220+ just doesn’t have enough CPU power for my needs, and I’ve recently used up all the disk space I installed, so I’m looking for a new server....
When meme meets real world…
Silver-Spotted Skipper
A little butterfly I spotted on a hike.
Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year – study | Continent is warming at much faster rate than other parts of world, leading to fires, drought and health problems (www.theguardian.com)
The study is here
is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google?
MOM PLEASE I NEED IT (rape.pet)
Far-right disorder had ‘clear’ Russian involvement, says ex-MI6 spy (www.theguardian.com)
There is “clear” Russian involvement in the far-right riots and security services will be looking closely at the instigators, a former head of the MI6 Russia desk has said....
OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)
Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?
What languages do you speak?
Alternatively, in the languages I speak:...