Via Li Chen’s Mastodon.

Another more than $200 million in medical debt has been wiped out for Arizonans. And the recipients are going to know who to thank: Gov. Katie Hobbs.

I’ve had him getting uppercutted and Jake Paul’s knockout on repeat as background noise since last weekend

Saw a bartender wearing this one.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand plans to visit the Greenland community of Nuuk to open a Canadian consulate there early next year.

Rabat (AFP) – Organisers at the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco are allowing supporters in for free after kick-off in matches where stadiums are not full, a Confederation of African Football source told AFP.

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – Nigeria police said Thursday that they suspected a suicide bomber was behind the blast that killed several worshippers in a mosque on Christmas eve in the country’s northeastern Borno state.

Of the total area that is used by humans (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),

A unknown Chinese container ship has been caught carrying Multiple AESA Radars, CIWS and VLS Missile cells 1x 1130 CIWS 60x VLS 4x Decoy launchers

I’ve been running gaming benchmarks on Fedora, CachyOS, etc. With an RX 7900 XT at 6016x3384 (Apple Pro Display XDR) for the past few years. Over 700 games tested with MangoHud overlays showing FPS/frametimes and more. As far as I can tell, this is the only dataset of its kind - most benchmarks cap at 4K, and almost none test native Linux (vs Windows or Proton comparisons). I’m trying to figure out how to make this more useful to the community. Currently it’s all on YouTube (channel: GreenMinusBlue), but I’m working on extracting the raw data into a searchable format. Questions for the community:

Reece Lambert, from Reece’s Cafe, is again offering meals to anyone struggling this Christmas.

*Rebecca Joynes is currently serving a six and a half year prison sentence*

Die Forschenden vom Universitätsklinikum München stellten fest, dass sich in den Weihnachtstagen vom 24. bis 26. Dezember aller untersuchten Jahre 40 Penisfrakturen ereignet hatten, was 1,2 % aller Ereignisse entspricht. Die Inzidenz für einen Weihnachtstag lag bei 0,78 mit einem Inzidenzratenverhältnis von 1,43. Somit wären in Deutschland seit 2005 43 % mehr Penisfrakturen aufgetreten, wenn jeden Tag Weihnachten wäre. In den Silvesternächten des gleichen Zeitraums kam es dagegen nur zu 28 Penisfrakturen (0,8 %), was keiner gesteigerten Inzidenz entsprach.

An airplane has, for the first time, automatically landed itself after an in-flight emergency, according to the system’s manufacturer.

There are no roads through the Darién Gap. This vast impenetrable forest spans the width of the land bridge between South and Central America, but there is almost no way through it: hundreds have lost their lives trying to cross it on foot.

Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus during a raid on a Christmas party in Haifa, a civil rights monitor has said.

in the week before people were disappointed by a lack of snow… lucky us :)

Green tech is advancing faster than ever, offering practical, scalable solutions that drastically cut emissions and reshape how societies produce energy. Breakthroughs such as perovskite tandem solar cells and direct air capture show how sustainable technology can now reduce emissions up to 80% more efficiently than the systems used just a decade ago. These tools, once experimental, are rapidly maturing into real-world climate solutions capable of lowering global dependency on fossil fuels.

When you’re in a bad service challenge and your opponent is a multi billion dollar conglomerate.

I have posted about the L119/M119 before, but I will again because it is curiously largely ignored by the international community as a critical force multiplier in the Ukrainian military. Howitzers will be the bread and butter of ground armies long into the future no matter what armchair generals say about drones, missiles etc…

i.e. Almost all of Kupiansk has been liberated. A pocket of Russian forces is trapped.

The agreement allows for the potential supply of up to 500 RCH 155 self-propelled howitzers. Moreover, deliveries under this agreement may be made not only to the Bundeswehr but also to foreign customers. While 500 RCH 155s is an impressive number, the Bundeswehr probably does not need that many at present.

“six-seven” has taken over elementary and middle schools in America. It’s everywhere.

The inspection found that although half the required time F-35s couldn’t take to the air, and their maintenance didn’t meet requirements. Despite all this, the American defense department paid Lockheed Martin $1.7 billion for corresponding services.

This stereo rail consists of three 3D-printed parts, two 3/8” screws, 1/4” insert, and a 2020 aluminum profile. It puts the microphone capsules as close as possible together, on a vertical axis, and in a 90° angle to each other. Each mic capsule consists of a front and back membrane. The mics, two Austrian Audio OC818 have two outputs each - one for each membrane. This way, all directions are covered and I can generate all kinds of stereo and surround signals afterwards in my DAW.

The codename for this release series is Tenacious Tomato. Today’s release is a beta/RC. You can find it here: https://rsync.libreboot.org/testing/26.01rc1/ Or you can find it on a mirror.

At this rate, finding the last digit is probably just a few years down the road.

Kirsty is raising funds for mental health charity Mind by wrapping Christmas gifts for strangers.