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No great revelation here, I know. I doubt any of them are ex-pats.

/trumpets and fanfare

Welcome, one and all, to the opening ceremonies of the 3rd Annual Owl of the Year!

They've delighted, educated, and entertained you for the last 12 months, and now we see which owls have captured your heart the most.

We've taken the top 16 from last year's event and ranked them by their average scores. Previous winners, White Faced Owl and Saw Whet Owl are still the top of the game, but it is anything but certain who is going to come out on top this year.

Even with just these competitors, there are going to be some bitter matches in the early rounds. But it's no free ride for the previous owls - they must compete against some looking for rematches and some newcomers to shake things up, and that is why we are here now!

Today I will be putting up 4 groups of 6 for you to vote on. The bottom 2 owls will be eliminated, and the winners of all groups will be ranked based on their final scores.

To vote is easy - just upvote any and all owls you like. Downvotes don't count, so don't try. I'll leave this open for the week, ending sometime Saturday (I'll be on vacation so I get to it when I can!) and then the official games will begin!

Good luck to all your favorites, and may the best owl win!

People who joke about legos haven't stepped on this bad boy

Domino meme

Amerikanischer Präsident weigert sich eine Bärin zu erschießen

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It's gotta be ROUGH being MAGA right now. Nothing but losses, scandals and controversies hitting day in and day out every day, for well over a week. Then, they learn that an extremely large part of their movement doesn't even exist and was never real at all. Yeeesh. When do we get to the part where he shoots himself in the bunker?

Are y'all done winning yet? 🙄

"In an attempt to expose liberal bots, Elon ‘Moron’ Musk launched a new “About This Account” feature, which reveals a user’s real country based on their IP address.

Within hours, an estimated 70% or more of America-First Pro-MAGA accounts had been exposed as being run by foreign agents instead."

Source: UN.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39345295

I wanted to share an interesting statistic with you. Approximately 1 out of every 25 people with a Google Pixel phone is running GrapheneOS right now. While it's difficult to get an exact number, we can make educated guesses to get an approximate number.

How many GrapheneOS users are there? According to an estimate released by GrapheneOS today, the number of GrapheneOS devices is approaching 400,000. This estimate is based on the number of devices that downloaded recent GrapheneOS updates. Some users may have multiple devices, such as organizations, and some users may download and flash updates externally, but it's the best estimate we have.

How many Google Pixel users are there? Despite Google's extensive data collection, this one is surprisingly harder to estimate, since Google hasn't released an exact number. There's a number floating around that Google has 4-5% of the smartphone market, which is between 10 million and 13.2 million users in the United States. I can't find the source of where this information came from. That number is problematic, too, because Japan supposedly uses more Google Pixel phones than the United States. The Pixel 9 series was also a big jump in market share for Google. I couldn't find any numbers smaller than 10 million, and it made the math nice, so that is what I went with.

Putting the numbers together, it means that 4% of Google Pixel users are running GrapheneOS. That means in a room of 25 Google Pixel users, 1 of them will be a GrapheneOS user. If you include all custom Android operating systems, that number would certainly be much, much higher.

To put it into perspective, each pixel in this image represents ~5 Google Pixel users. Each white pixel represents that those ~5 people use GrapheneOS:

Even with generous estimates to Google's market share, GrapheneOS still makes up a large portion of their users.

Korn post

The number of people leaving the emergency department across the country has been on the rise in recent years.

About a half a million Canadians left emergency departments before being seen by a doctor in 2024, according to a data analysis by CBC’s Marketplace.

Because B.C. and Quebec report these figures based on the fiscal calendar (and include parts of 2025), that number is likely a lot higher.

https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor

Currently it supports AppImage, but Flatpak version will possibly be available in future: https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor/issues/1

https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor

Currently it supports AppImage, but Flatpak version will possibly be available in future: https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor/issues/1

Christmas creep was happening 100 years ago, thanks capitalism.

Israel carried out an airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war.

The strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed five people and wounded 25 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.

Hezbollah did not immediately comment. Earlier, it said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended that Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened an escalation of attacks — just days before Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to visit Lebanon on his first foreign trip.

“We will continue to act forcefully to prevent any threat to the residents of the north and the state of Israel,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.

TOS s3e2 "The Enterprise Incident"