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Four bendy buses managed to enter a roundabout at the exact same time from four different directions in Oslo yesterday afternoon and get properly stuck, each bus blocking the exit for the one behind it. #BigBusStuck
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Evidence suggests early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/
So, it is like software or firmware that comes with default instructions for building something useful using that app; however, here you can go on and build your own life with default set of instructions to understand the world. How cool is that? Can this info used to treat brain disorders? Can we fix bugs in the default instructions to improve life?
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On the 4th October, 1936, the British Union of Fascists had planned a march to the East End of London.
Despite the petition of East Londoners, with 100,000 signatures over two days, the Home Office declined to ban the march. Authorities refused to allow a counter-march by the Ex-Servicemen's Movement Against Fascism, because the fascists had organised their march first.
On the day, around 3,000 fascists turned up for the march, protected by more than double that number in police.
The fascists and police were resisted by over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND anti-fascists who erected barricades, chanting "They Shall Not Pass". Police attempted to dismantle the barricades and clear a path for the fascists, and were pelted with rotten vegetables, and the contents of chamber-pots thrown from upstairs residents.
There's a damn good reason why fascism had a hard time establishing itself in the UK; I'm pretty sure it wasn't the government nor the police.
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A Simple #WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
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Want to run old versions of UNIX for the PDP-11 on modern hardware and OSes like Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD? You can do it now for educational purposes and see how much Unix evolved over time. Ancient UNIX versions available for the PDP-11 include Version 1 UNIX, Version 5 UNIX, Version 7 UNIX, and 2.11BSD UNIX. Give it a try and experience the history once again.
Repo and build info is here https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix
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"There is an “elephant in the room,” he declares, an “inexplicable omission.” It stands unheeded in every meeting and report “narrowly set on carbon emissions and net-zero pledges.” The elephant at COP30 is ecosystem destruction, “the systemic sabotage of the planet’s most powerful climate control mechanism.” No one sees the elephant because it’s been continually “relegated to a mere footnote in the carbon story.”
https://theclimateaccordingtolife.substack.com/p/beyond-carbon-a-paradigm-shift-for
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Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.
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The Internet Archive survived major copyright losses. What’s next?
"We survived, but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive's founder says.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!
1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (raw editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura or Orca (3D printing)
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