US existing home sales fall to lowest level in more than 13 years (www.theguardian.com)
The median existing house price increased 3.4% from a year earlier to $391,800, the highest for any October.
"The Next Subnautica" aims to deliver underwater survival spooks in early 2025 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory" (lemmy.world)
This is an idea I’ve been toying with for a bit. There is a ton of media that includes unimportant information that doesn’t need to be stored pixel perfect. Storing large portions of the image data as text will save substantial amounts of storage, and as the reality of on-device image generation becoming commonplace sets in...
Charlie Kirk defends Elon Musk's antisemitism: "Some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans" (www.mediamatters.org)
For more on Musk's remarks, see here and here.
Let's talk travel/insulated mugs.
So can we talk mugs? I tend to make a half liter (~17 oz) of coffee in a French Press in the morning. I run into the problem that I get about a half hour to 45 minutes (I’ve never timed it this number might be wildly off) in before the, “Crap! Its getting cold!” moment and feel like I have to accelerate my consumption to...
leng - a fast DNS server with adblocking, built for self-hosting (github.com)
A few months ago I went on a quest for a DNS server and was dissatisfied with current maintained projects. They were either good at adblocking (Blocky, grimd…) or good at specifying custom DNS (CoreDNS…)....
Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Since launching in early 2022, former President Donald Trump‘s Truth Social took in $3.7 million in net sales, and lost $73 million....
Firefox (finally) enables Wayland by default on their builds (phabricator.services.mozilla.com)
New 'joint employer' rule could make it easier for millions to unionize - if it survives challenges (apnews.com)
The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act....
An unusual scene (startrek.website)
I fell for it
These blueberries are getting expensive! (lemmy.world)
Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote (insideclimatenews.org)
Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 (ghacks.net)
This may be the dumbest thing I've made yet. Sorry, Risa. (startrek.website)
Its like Mr bones wild ride (lemmy.world)
How are films recorded
I always hear people/actors/directors say, this tape or film is x meters long, it is this size, etc. do they really still use physical film? If so why aren’t they using terabytes of storage in a way more compact form?
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status (techcrunch.com)
Home heating from datacentres - good use of waste energy or a waste of money? | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Ever wonder what else they ask the computer? (startrek.website)
Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate (www.politico.eu)
‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny....
Lazy people are just very efficient people
Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work (www.nature.com)
Simple but modern website
I want to make my own website, like a blog where I talk about tech and tutorials and such. Something like kerkour.com and lukesmith.xyz. Any ideas for simple but modern design?
Macron opposes gender-inclusive spelling as he inaugurates language museum (www.france24.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland....