The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a “honeytrap” operation using the gay dating app, Grindr....
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed an increase in the number of smelly people out and about. In particular, it seems like there’s been a sharp increase in the number of people unable to clean themselves properly after going to the toilet....
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
I ll start : I have been following a pretty known tech/Linux journalist, and always found he is a fun dude to listen to, with interesting tech takes...
like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach,...
and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it’s so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it’s a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks....
Usually when I’m scrolling, the feed will have posts added to the bottom. Sometimes however, I’ll get to the bottom of the feed and there are no more posts. Sometimes if I drag up the posts up, more posts will then appear. Sometimes if I scroll up a bit and then back down, more posts will appear. However, sometimes neither...
Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...
Wow, 40% are happy with the UK staying outside the EU. That’s a lot of people, especially given the continuous stream of newspaper articles crying how terrible and disasterous brexit has allegedly been.
Many creators mentioning they lost hundreds of their patrons suddenly and patrons confused as to why their payments are being declined. Patreon is such an old company that hasnt done anything to improve their service for years while the CEO makes youtube videos and seemingly nothing with the company. I hate how much of a...
Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer’s resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider....
Light Saber | Transportation Security Administration (www.tsa.gov)
“Carry On Bags: Yes...
'Qatar targeted my brother on Grindr - I want him home’ (www.bbc.com)
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a “honeytrap” operation using the gay dating app, Grindr....
Anyone else noticed an increase in smelly people?
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed an increase in the number of smelly people out and about. In particular, it seems like there’s been a sharp increase in the number of people unable to clean themselves properly after going to the toilet....
Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age (www.theguardian.com)
The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System (www.nextplatform.com)
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021 (puri.sm)
"Bobby Kotick's decisions made our games worse," says former Call of Duty dev (www.eurogamer.net)
Upgrade Lemmy on feddit.uk to be able to export data?
Is it possible to upgrade feddit.uk to the latest release of Lemmy so that we can make use of this patch to export user account data?
Pope says priests can bless same-sex unions, requests should not be subject to moral analysis (apnews.com)
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
Biden ditches trade deal talks with Britain (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Joe Biden has shelved plans for a pact with Britain that could have paved the way for a full post-Brexit trade deal....
What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it?
I ll start : I have been following a pretty known tech/Linux journalist, and always found he is a fun dude to listen to, with interesting tech takes...
Bored With Bash? Change the Default Shell in Linux (itsfoss.com)
I hate how the holidays create all this extra responsibility and stress out of nowhere and then the media / culture also act like you're meant to be having such fun the whole time
like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach,...
The fact that drug tests are normalized for jobs is fucking insane
and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it’s so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it’s a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks....
Do we have enough coders to collaborate on an extension like this? (merv.news)
EDIT: the extension now supports Lemmy comments!...
Long-running Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales closes visitor centre with immediate effect (www.walesonline.co.uk)
Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org)
[meme] How would you rather see this land developed? (lemmy.world)
Why does scrolling to the bottom of the main feed sometimes load more posts and sometimes doesn't?
Usually when I’m scrolling, the feed will have posts added to the bottom. Sometimes however, I’ll get to the bottom of the feed and there are no more posts. Sometimes if I drag up the posts up, more posts will then appear. Sometimes if I scroll up a bit and then back down, more posts will appear. However, sometimes neither...
The Fairphone 5 released, is the sleekest repairable phone yet (www.androidpolice.com)
Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...
Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to (lemmy.ca)
LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns (www.youtube.com)
Six in ten people want UK to re-join the European Union (omnisis.co.uk)
Patreon having issues again causing thousands of people’s payments to be declined (i.imgur.com)
Many creators mentioning they lost hundreds of their patrons suddenly and patrons confused as to why their payments are being declined. Patreon is such an old company that hasnt done anything to improve their service for years while the CEO makes youtube videos and seemingly nothing with the company. I hate how much of a...
If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project (boinc.berkeley.edu)
Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer’s resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider....