Santa's tired of giving out coal to those who are naughty [OC] (files.catbox.moe)
I took this with a new vintage lens I picked up with a crazy shallow depth of field....
‘Hard to breathe’: Myanmar communities forced to live among world’s trash (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
Exxon set to buy shale rival Pioneer for $60 billion in stock - sources (www.reuters.com)
Exxon, which was valued at $442 billion on Tuesday, is expected to make a pure stock offer valued at more than $250 a share for Pioneer, the people said on condition of anonymity because the details were not public....
Another quake strikes western Afghanistan; official says more homes destroyed (www.reuters.com)
There were no details on casualties so far, disaster management spokesman Janan Sayeeq told Reuters, but provincial officials said hundreds of homes had been destroyed....
What Linux options exist for passkeys?
I see Google and Apple really embracing passkeys lately and I’m trying to understand the hype, but it can be challenging. I also see that Bitwarden and 1Password are embracing them too. As far as I can tell, passkeys are just key pairs that behave like FIDO2 tokens (e.g. my yubikey) but are backed up to some cloud and usable...
Lords of the Fallen - Dark Crusader DLC Class Gameplay (youtu.be)
Italian financial corps crack down on Chinese money laundering (decode39.com)
Jewish diaspora mourns attack on Israel, but carries on by celebrating holidays (apnews.com)
The Jewish diaspora awoke to horror Saturday in what was supposed to be among the most festive times on the Jewish holiday calendar....
Good Cop Gets Bad Cop Fired and Arrested (www.youtube.com)
Amazon launches test satellites for its planned internet service to compete with SpaceX (apnews.com)
Amazon launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service on Friday as a rival to SpaceX’s broadband network....
Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless (The Verge) (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from !googlepixel...
Keep Bandcamp Great: Tell Songtradr to recognize and negotiate with Bandcamp United immediately (actionnetwork.org)
On September 28, Epic Games announced the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr, Inc. In an internal announcement to staff, Epic Games wrote that Songtradr, Inc. would be offering positions to some Bandcamp employees but not all. This comes amidst ongoing contract negotiations with Bandcamp’s staff union - Bandcamp United.
How safe it is to use I2P for torrenting? (geti2p.net)
Murena Two will have a a kill switch to prevent snooping (murena.com)
Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.
Russian strike on village kills 51, Ukrainian officials say, as Zelenskyy seeks more Western support (apnews.com)
Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory (torrentfreak.com)
*Russia’s incremental moves to eliminate online privacy regularly target VPNs. To ‘free’ itself from Google and Apple, in 2022 Russia launched its very own app store, which ironically offers dozens of VPNs. After the government recently announced the mandatory pre-installation of RuStore on tech gadgets, a draft law will...
What advice would you give a young adult about to move out?
I am asking this question because the young adult in question, is me. I am to move out in a few years, and it feels impossible to move far away from my hometown (which I want). I have no idea how to juggle both finances, a job, and the move itself. With the global inflation going on, it feels impossible getting hold of a decent...
The original Apple Watch lineup is officially obsolete (www.engadget.com)
Yes, including the 18-karat gold model....
Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 (lemm.ee)
There used to be a community for us foragers before - but it vanished out of thin air!?...
Britain has ‘run out of arms to send to Ukraine’. We’ve given away all we can afford and other countries should step in, says senior military chief. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Full article: imgur.com/a/m7QSJLU
Is webtor.io (or similars) the free and reliable way of torrenting I always wanted?
Just that, I found this web while looking on FMHY and this seems to be the perfect torrenting tool. Is it really?...
Persona 3 Reload New Gameplay No Commentary 4K TGS 2023 (youtu.be)
Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants following deadly Ankara blast (www.cnn.com)
Turkey’s military carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Sunday, just hours after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in the capital in the latest attack of its nearly four-decade long insurgency....