Typically, people aren’t always bored, because otherwise, you are basically emotionally flat and depressed and soon will be suicidal. Have you seen kids that say they are bored? It just means they are not doing anything that interest them.
To get “unbored”, you most likely need to be doing something that is fun, and/or meaningful, and/or enjoyable, and/or worthy, and/or essential to survival (in a way, people who are bored may be having it too easy). It may be better to be doing something productive, personally or socially, than doing something just addictive.
Even being still meditating is doing something (like actively paying attention to the breath).
A very compliant cow who fell head first into a sinkhole in the UK was calmly hoisted out of the hole by its back legs by an equally calm group of helpers. Upon extraction, it laid still while the straps were removed before it rolled upright and was reunited with its herd seemingly none the worse for wear....
A photo of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has won this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London....
The eruption of Mount Etna in 2002 sent lava to devour this forest in Sicily. It was such a dramatic event that footage of it can be seen in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, as part of the landscape of the planet Mustafar....
Pegasus is a highly sophisticated and controversial spyware tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Pegasus is designed to infiltrate and infect mobile devices, including smartphones, and it allows the attacker to remotely monitor and collect a wide range of information from the compromised device. This...
In July 2022, Charlie Osborne of ZDNet suggested that individuals who suspect a Pegasus infection use a secondary device with GrapheneOS for secure communication.
Your Shot photographer Josselin Cornou says this shot was only possible under a very specific condition: “after sunset during a torrential rain.” She says that new inhabitants have found a home here, in what was once a busy train tunnel in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia. “A city of glow worms are populating this...
Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accident ( yle.fi )
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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX? – Krebs on Security ( krebsonsecurity.com )
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[Tor Project] Code audit for the Tor Project completed by Radically Open Security ( blog.torproject.org )
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[Lemmy-UI Bug?] 0.19.3 "Show Notifications for New Posts" doesn't get exported/imported
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[Corp Blog] What is an evil twin attack, and should they worry you? Alternate title: should you use VPN when connecting to the public WIFI? ( protonvpn.com )
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Hyundai's "E-corner" system ( www.youtube.com )
I am all for easy parallel parking and tight turn-around!
Stinky ( media.kbin.social )
How do you help somebody that always says they're bored?
IKEA has all your holiday needs met ( lemmus.org )
The perfect gift for a relative. Some assembly required.
Experts Detail Multi-Million Dollar Licensing Model of Predator Spyware; apparently, rebooting Android or iOS don't always remove the spyware ( thehackernews.com )
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Very convenient! ( i.imgflip.com )
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314 (Herbert von Karajan) ( youtu.be )
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - ‘The Blue Danube’ (waltz) scene
[Corp Blog] A big win for open Internet: Сourt sides with an ad blocker in a copyright case ( adguard.com )
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. ( www.neowin.net )
Emmanuel Pahud - Bach - Flute Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034: III - Andante ( youtu.be )
Flute: Emmanuel Pahud Cello: Jonathan Manson Harpsichord: Trevor Pinnock...
Elizabeth Wallfisch - Bach - Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 ( youtu.be )
Orchestra of the age of Enlightenment
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Crocodiles save dog stranded in river instead of eating it - in possible case of 'emotional empathy' ( news.sky.com )
[Classical] Seong-Jin Cho – Chopin - Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4 (Chopin Competition 2015) ( youtu.be )
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023: A paper nautilus takes a ride on a drifting wooden stick, by Jialing Cai, Philippines ( oceanographic.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com )
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Pizza, popcorn and pints: six surprising foods that may actually be good for us - Positive News ( www.positive.news )
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GitHub launches passkey support into general availability ( techcrunch.com )
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[Corp Blog] How attackers use inbox rules to evade detection after email account compromise ( blog.barracuda.com )
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[News] ThemeBleed exploit is another reason to patch Windows quickly ( www.malwarebytes.com )
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[EFF] New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy ( www.eff.org )
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Google Authenticator Blamed to have made one company’s network breach much, much worse ( arstechnica.com )
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Cow Fallen Head First into a Sinkhole, Calmly Rescued [UK] ( fb.watch )
A very compliant cow who fell head first into a sinkhole in the UK was calmly hoisted out of the hole by its back legs by an equally calm group of helpers. Upon extraction, it laid still while the straps were removed before it rolled upright and was reunited with its herd seemingly none the worse for wear....
Getting the Soil Right: How Carbon Farming Combats Climate Change ( reasonstobecheerful.world )
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Andromeda, Unexpected, by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty ( ichef.bbci.co.uk )
A photo of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has won this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London....
[US] Feds spread $1 billion for tree plantings among US cities to reduce extreme heat and benefit health ( apnews.com )
[Corp Blog] Are Electron-based desktop applications secure? ( www.kaspersky.com )
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[BBC] The bacteria that can capture carbon: Could minuscule organisms help the world meet its climate goals? ( www.bbc.com )
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Over the Line, Placido Faranda, National Geographic Your Shot ( i.natgeofe.com )
The eruption of Mount Etna in 2002 sent lava to devour this forest in Sicily. It was such a dramatic event that footage of it can be seen in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, as part of the landscape of the planet Mustafar....
Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus ( meduza.io )
Pegasus is a highly sophisticated and controversial spyware tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Pegasus is designed to infiltrate and infect mobile devices, including smartphones, and it allows the attacker to remotely monitor and collect a wide range of information from the compromised device. This...
[BBC] How coin tosses can lead to better decisions ( www.bbc.com )
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[CNN] How a sea otter became a serial surfboard-stealer ( youtube.com )
This has been on the news for a couple of months, but I haven’t seen it on Lemmy yet, so here it is....
[Neapolitan song] Robertino Loretti - Ernesto De Curtis - Torna a Surriento ( youtu.be )
Robertino Loretti (born in 1947) is an Italian singer, mostly known for songs he performed as a teenager.
Don't worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it'll build safe, trustworthy generative AI ( www.theregister.com )
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Mozilla Patched WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit in Firefox and Thunderbird: CVE-2023-4863 (heap buffer overflow flaw in the WebP image format that could result in arbitrary code execution) ( thehackernews.com )
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California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Right to Repair Legislation ( www.404media.co )
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'Absolutely astonished': Victor's dad lost his life savings to scammers, but the bank paid it all back ( www.abc.net.au )
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Glow Worms, Josselin Cornou, National Geographic Your Shot [Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia] ( i.natgeofe.com )
Your Shot photographer Josselin Cornou says this shot was only possible under a very specific condition: “after sunset during a torrential rain.” She says that new inhabitants have found a home here, in what was once a busy train tunnel in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia. “A city of glow worms are populating this...
[Classical] Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Mozart - Serenade No. 10 for Winds (Gran Partita) K.361 (3rd mvt, Neville Marriner) ( youtu.be )
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[Opera Aria] Diana Damrau - Mozart - Queen of the Night aria (The Magic Flute, The Royal Opera) ( youtu.be )
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)...
A female humpback whale Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve biologists know as #219 surfaces in the waters near the park. (NPS photo by Janet Neilson) ( www.adn.com )
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