3.26.0d Patch Notes

Mercenaries League

• Lowered the damage of the following skills on Enemy Mercenaries (not when allied): Shield Crush, Intimidating Cry, Tempest Shield, Purifying Flame, Meteor, Flame Dash, Scorching Ray Totem, Reap, Corrupted Blade Vortex of the Scythe, Vaal Reap, Exsanguinate, Static Strike, Frost Blades, Vaal Burning Arrow, Burning Arrow, Absolution, Raise Spectre of Transience, all Reinforce skills.
• Fixed Mercenaries aligned with all three attributes (Str/Dex/Int) being unable to equip items with all three attribute requirements.
• Gilded Beam Width can no longer spawn on Mercenaries as a support for Unnerving Blast. It did not do anything and was mistakenly a valid option.
• Fixed a bug where the "Cross Contamination 6" Challenge was only counting Ore Deposit Encounters completed in Delirium Maps. It now also counts those completed in Delirium encounters created by Delirium Mirrors.
• Fixed a bug where completing an Abyssal Depth at level 81 or 82 would not award completion for Unreal Undertakings Challenge.
• Fixed a bug where Loreweave would not contribute towards the Peddler's Produce Challenge.
• Fixed a bug where defeating the Elder with an Active Mercenary did not complete the Paired Pinnacles Challenge.
• Updated the description for Mercenary Offering skills to clarify that they affect the minions of the Offering skills' owner, and not all allied minions.
• Improved Mercenary Inventory navigation in Controller UI.
• Fixed not being able to scroll down in the Mercenary Stats Panel in Controller UI.

Other Improvements and Fixes

• Changed the damage dealt by the Trial Horror monster variety to use standard damage scaling instead of percent life based scaling. This also applies to the spectred version of the monster.
• The Memory of Familiarity Petal Skill now converts all dropped non-unique items to be of the same type (previously unique items would be converted to the same type as well).
• Apparition Shrine Buffs from the Domination Scarab of Apparitions have had their damage increased back to where they were before, and now only apply to the buff gained by the player.
• Restored the Dancing Dervish interaction with Chains of Command unique that changed in 3.26. Instead of manifested Dervishes being considered animated only for that unique's modifiers without that being described, the item now specifies it works with animated and manifested minions.
• The following monsters have been fixed visually as spectres and have been enabled again: Despair Remnant, Pain Remnant, Twisted Recollection, Eternal Regret, Feral Memory, Screaming Loneliness, Vicious Memory
• Enabled The Bargain, The Mayor, Squandered Prosperity, Monochrome, Sambodhi's Wisdom, and the Underground Forest Divination Cards to be used on the Currency Exchange.
• Rare monsters are now limited to only display 8 modifier descriptions at most, with more (such as from the Allflame Ember of Propagation) showing as "...and X other modifiers."
• Expedition Remnants associated with a specific civilization in Logbooks now use a different minimap icon to regular Remnants.
• You can now open Dannig's "Exchange Items" screen using ctrl+alt+left click.
• Fixed a bug where Orb of Unravelling could upgrade crafted mods.
• Fixed a bug where Orb of Unravelling could be used on unidentified items.
• Fixed a bug where the 8 Modifier Corruption outcome on Originator Influenced Maps resulted in all Map Modifiers being Tier 17 Map Modifiers (rather than a mixture of Tier 16 and Tier 17).
• Fixed an issue introduced in 3.26.0 where the Shipping and Disenchant options were sometimes not visible for existing characters in Standard League, this can be fixed by using /recheck_achievements after the patch.
• Fixed a bug with The Trickster's Smile Unique Helmet where "When an Enemy Hit deals Elemental Damage to you, their Resistance to those Elements becomes zero for 4 seconds" would apply for self-inflicted damage.
• Fixed a case where a tree could appear on top of the crafting recipe in the Precinct Map.
• Fixed an issue where the Novamark Runegraft wasn't working with Blade Blast Skill variants.
• Fixed a bug where The Dark Monarch unique item could prevent you from having Totems, Traps, and Mines.
• Fixed a bug where the Temporal Chains curse effect was not correctly applying to players when using the Profane Proxy Unique Ring.
• Fixed bug where Tower of Ordeals could be obtained from a Voidborn Reliquary or Valdos Puzzle Box.
• Fixed the Totem limit from Cadigan's Authority Unique Sceptre also incorrectly applying to minions.
• Fixed the Sacred Blossom fragment not being tradable on the Currency Exchange.
• Fixed non-boss monsters in the Mastermind fight not giving drops or experience.
• Fixed a bug in Ruthless where Safehouse Trapped Stashes were not generating any items.
• Fixed cases of some Currencies failing to highlight or highlighting applicable items incorrectly when being used.
• Fixed a bug where the Voidborn Reliquary and Valdo's Puzzle Box were unable to reward Ritual-specific unique items.
• Fixed The Trialmaster being able to move and attack while the game was paused if he was encountered during an Ultimatum encounter.
• Fixed a bug where walls created by summoned map bosses in the Maven's boss fight would continue to block movement even after being removed.
• Fixed the description of Glacial Cascade to correctly state that the final spike has 100% more radius, rather than 100% more area of effect. This is purely a description change.
• Fixed a bug in Controller UI where the Annoint interface would not allow you to overwrite existing annointments.
• Fixed a bug in Controller UI where popups for socketed items would not always be displayed.
• Fixed a bug in Controller UI where the game would not always unpause after closing the Delve map interface.
• Fixed a client crash related to the Ring of the Demon Slayer microtransaction.
• Fixed 4 instance crashes.

Patch Notes - 3.26.0d Patch Notes - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

^{Path of Exile}

Secrets of the Atlas features three new Pinnacle Bosses which you face in order to uncover the secrets of Caeserius family. In this expansion we have also introduced the exclusive Watchers' Wrath Armour Set which you can earn by completing challenges in the league. For this news post we've gathered pieces of concept art for three new Pinnacles and the Armour Set. Check them out below:

Incarnation of Fear

Incarnation of Neglect

Incarnation of Dread

The Watcher's Wrath Armour Set

Eagon Caeserius

We'd like to provide an update on a few important things that have been happening in Path of Exile.

Server Issues

We've been very focused on improving DDoS protection for our servers. Unfortunately, some of the protective measures have blocked legitimate traffic, causing instances to unexpectedly close. We're working closely with our server providers to finish setting up protection and resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Compromised Accounts

There have recently been an increased amount of reports regarding players having their accounts compromised. We've looked into as many reports as we could, and will continue to do so, however we have found no evidence of any kind of security breach on our end. If you're not already, we strongly recommend using secure and unique passwords. If you login through Steam but previously used the Standalone client, your email and password is still a valid login method and you should ensure this password is secure and unique.

Visual Flickering

We're aware that gameplay elements and the game's UI will start to flicker in and out when gameplay gets a bit hectic. The engine team is urgently looking into this and we're hoping to have an update on this issue next week.

Thank you all for your patience as we work through these issues.

No expansion is complete without a soundtrack to set the tone, and the score for Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas certainly doesn't neglect this. Check out the tracks for the Secrets of the Atlas Original Soundtrack by Kamil Orman-Janowski and Michael James Collier in today's news post!

These tracks, along with the rest of the Path of Exile Extended Digital Soundtrack, are available for download with the purchase of any Supporter Pack here.

The Secrets of the Atlas Boss Kill Event for PC has now concluded! The race for the top 10 was close, and all bonus boss kills have been claimed!

Top 3 Placings - PC:

Congratulations to the top 3 racers, who will each get a Godslayer's Pride Amulet, a Divination Card design, and a Unique Item design for the newest bosses: The Incarnation of Dread, The Incarnation of Neglect and The Incarnation of Fear!

• Ben_#4007
• allexpleblord#4962
• nickexile11#5507

Top 10 Placings - PC:

Congratulations to the rest of the top 10, who will also get a Godslayer's Pride Amulet as well as a Divination Card design!

• Sarge2#0184
• Dsfarblarwaggle#7862
• Wyrm_GG#3008
• akuryo#0061
• Kunagi_JP#6612
• CARNDARAK#3163
• 김겨울#7178

Bonus Prizes - PC: The following players were the first to slay the bosses listed below, allowing them to design a Unique Item for that boss:

• First Catarina Kill: allexpleblord#4962
• First Uber Uber Elder Kill: Ben_#4007
• First Uber Shaper Kill: Ben_#4007
• First Uber Sirus Kill: Ben_#4007
• First Uber Cortex Kill: CARNDARAK#3163

As we stated during launch weekend, we will be running an additional Boss Kill Event for PC where the prize structure will be exactly the same as the first event. The postponed Console Boss Kill Event will also be run at the same time.

More info on when this will start will be provided soon, so keep your eye on the news.

Congratulations again to all winners of the first Secrets of the Atlas Boss Kill Event!

We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the third experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.92.1. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.

The release can be found on SourceForge and should show up on Flathub Beta shortly.

If you don't want to use the Flathub Beta method, there are build instructions in the README for building a flatpak locally or installing into a meson devenv. Both methods avoid installing directly to your OS installation which is preferred as there is no easy way to uninstall.

About

Just like Experimental 1 and 2, this is a milestone release. It is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but it is not meant for end users.

Most things are not implemented, the user interface has not been polished at all, and there are so many bugs. As such we are asking that packagers please do not package this for your users yet as the potential support requests will be too much for us to handle at this time.

This release isn’t quite what we wanted as things just didn't align well this cycle, but there’s still a lot of good progress.

Looking forward, Experimental 4 is scheduled for 2025-09-30 and will have a version number of 2.93.0.

We have a bunch of tickets entered for Experimental 4, and you can keep an eye on the Burndown Chart for Experimental 4 to stay informed. As always, priorities and possibilities can and will change, so even if something is listed for this release that doesn't mean it will be in the release until it's actually completed.

Highlights

The main highlights for this release are preferences! We've finally added some much need new sections named Appearance, Privacy, and Development. There's not a whole lot in these three yet, but there's a bunch we want to drop in here in the future.

Appearance Preferences

Right now the appearance preference just lets you toggle formatting of message which affects all messages and can be easily restored. We have a number of things to add here in the future, but if there's something you'd like to see, let us know in the comments below!

Privacy Preferences

Just like appearance the privacy preferences page is meant to help you keep your personal information personal. In the future we'll be adding options for how Pidgin should identify itself when queried and a few other things.

Development Preferences

The development preferences are meant to make the development of Pidgin and plugins easier. Developer mode itself does a number of things right now including showing the Bonjour and XMPP protocols which are not yet functional. This way developers can work on them easily and end users won't get confused by something that's not implemented.

ChangeLog

In the past we've tried to filter the ChangeLog to just the bits that might be interesting, but going forward we're just going to include everything that was done for the release.

General

• Add a native file for macos on arm (RR 3956) (Gary Kramlich)
• Run scour over all of the svgs (RR 3990) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add discrete options for protocol plugins (RR 3994) (Gary Kramlich)
• Fix a typo in POTFILES.in for the privacy preferences (RR 3998) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add an in-development tag to all protocols that are still early in development (RR 4007) (Gary Kramlich)
• Update the flatpak to gnome 48 and to the matching birb version (RR 4038) (Gary Kramlich)

libpurple:

• Add GListModel versions of purple_account_manager_get_{disabled,enabled (PIDGIN-18067) (RR 3952) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
• Remove GList versions of purple_account_manager_get_{disabled,enabled} (RR 3955) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
• Update the convey plans (RR 3975) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add Purple.ContactInfo:external for tracking external contacts (PIDGIN-18090) (RR 3973) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add Purple.Conversation:url (PIDGIN-18091) (RR 3974) (Gary Kramlich)
• Make Purple.ProtocolConversation.join_channel_finish return a conversation (RR 3982) (Gary Kramlich)
• Move the connection-state implementation to Purple.Account (PIDGIN-17988) (RR 3964) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add a Purple.Account::connection-state-changed signal (PIDGIN-18087) (RR 3965) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add Purple.Presence.primitive-changed signal (PIDGIN-18025) (RR 3966) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add Purple.Contact.is_own_account (RR 3985) (Gary Kramlich)
• Create purple_core_new_settings (RR 4000) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add Purple.Protocol:tags and add unit tests for protocol properties (RR 4006) (Gary Kramlich)
• Update to birb 0.4 and use the testing helpers in libpurple (RR 4014) (Gary Kramlich)
• Remove some unused markup functions (RR 4029) (Gary Kramlich)

Pidgin

• Port PidginApplication to purple_account_manager_get_enabled_model (PIDGIN-18067) (RR 3952) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
• Convert PidginAccountsDisabledMenu to the list model (PIDGIN-18067) (RR 3952) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
• Convert PidginAccountsEnabledMenu to the list model (PIDGIN-18066) (RR 3954) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
• Remove a dead assignment in Pidgin.ConversationMember (RR 3962) (Gary Kramlich)
• Fix Pidgin.Application.get_active_window to only return Pidgin.DisplayWindows (RR 3972) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add keybinding support to the channel join dialog (RR 3971) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add a preference for toggling whether or not to show formatting (PIDGIN-18081) (RR 3970) (Gary Kramlich)
• Start of the appearance preferences (PIDGIN-18082) (RR 3996) (Gary Kramlich)
• Remove the conversation preferences (RR 3995) (Gary Kramlich)
• Create a Privacy preference page with the send typing notification preference (PIDGIN-17450) (RR 3999) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add a Pidgin.PresenceIcon to Pidgin.ConversationMember (RR 4004) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add a Developer Settings preference pane (RR 4005) (Gary Kramlich)
• Update Pidgin.ProtocolChooser to hide in-development protocols (RR 4008) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add the operating system to the runtime information (PIDGIN-18005) (RR 4015) (Gary Kramlich)

Demo

• Use EionRobb's typical handle (RR 3967) (Gary Kramlich)
• Fix EionRobb's avatar (RR 3976) (Gary Kramlich)
• Fix some unbalanced G_BEGIN_DECLS (RR 3989) (Gary Kramlich)

IRCv3

• Fix privmsg going to the status window before registration is complete (RR 3963) (Gary Kramlich)
• Set the presence to offline when we receive a quit message (PIDGIN-18089) (RR 3969) (Gary Kramlich)
• Add support for away-notify (PIDGIN-18088) (RR 3968) (Gary Kramlich)
• Do a who after joining a channel (PIDGIN-17936) (RR 3981) (Gary Kramlich)
• Handle the WHOTOPIC and CHANNEL_URL messages (RR 3983) (Gary Kramlich)
• Check if a member is in a conversation before adding them (RR 3987) (Gary Kramlich)
• Handle formatting in server messages (RR 3991) (Gary Kramlich)
• Handle RPL_NOWAWAY and RPL_UNAWAY messages (RR 4003) (Gary Kramlich)
• Remove versioned API (RR 4030) (Gary Kramlich)

SIP

• A stubbed out SIP protocol plugin (RR 3988) (Gary Kramlich)
• Disable SIP by default and update the protocol summaries to reflect what will be built (RR 4028) (Gary Kramlich)

Thank You!

Thank you everyone for your continued support of Pidgin, it means a lot to us!

If you’re interested in contributing, you can check out our Contributing Guide to get started.

Also be sure to check out our merch store as well as our sticker store!

And if you’re feeling generous, you can learn how to donate to the project on our Donation Page.

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Session is pretty neat considering that it doesn’t require a cell phone number, unlike Signal messenger, which beats the purpose of anonymity.

I just purchased $20 in tokens. Perhaps one day in the future more people will start using it and nodes will start springing up all over, making the service much faster.

Has anyone else used or still uses Session? What are your thoughts? I think it has potential if more people have it a go.

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=42614

Can't we just ship Cruz off to Cancun permanently at this point?

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers. The plan would benefit AT&T, which is based in Cruz's home state, along with Verizon and T-Mobile.

Cruz's proposal revives a years-old controversy over whether the entire 6 GHz band should be devoted to Wi-Fi, which can use the large spectrum band for faster speeds than networks that rely solely on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would require spectrum to be auctioned off for full-power, commercially licensed use, and the question is where that spectrum will come from.

When the House of Representatives passed its so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," it excluded all of the frequencies between 5.925 and 7.125 gigahertz from the planned spectrum auctions. But Cruz's version of the budget reconciliation bill, which is moving quickly toward a final vote, removed the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions. The Cruz bill is also controversial because it would penalize states that regulate artificial intelligence.

Instead of excluding the 6 GHz band from auctions, Cruz's bill would instead exclude the 7.4–8.4 GHz band used by the military. Under conditions set by the bill, it could be hard for the Commerce Department and Federal Communications Commission to fulfill the Congressional mandate without taking some spectrum away from Wi-Fi.

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi

Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/30/the-north-atlantic-treaty-organizations-hallucinations/

Easy to moderate
7 mi out and back or short walk to falls only
1,496 ft elevation gain
Hiked 6/1/25

Located in the Thompson Falls recreation area not too far from Golden BC this is a great waterfall with an ok trail that could be shortened to maybe half a mile or so of a mild slope. Falls were way overfull at time of hike, but appear to be a worthwhile stop, perhaps while camping in the area.

Another view of Thompson falls from a little further away, which better shows the shelf under the rushing river.

The uppermost section of falls along the trail, looks like it would have been a small cascade on the far side with a rapid on the near. Currently very blown out, the downed trees on the farside are stuck.

A jumble of fallen trees suspended in the forest. (Marge voice: I just think they're neat!)

Bluesky link to post with Videos of the falls

https://www.top.org.nz/citizens-voice

https://neuters.de/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-loses-bid-dismiss-us-smartphone-monopoly-case-2025-06-30/

Israel's Knesset House Committee voted to advance the impeachment of prominent lawmaker Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, on Monday, over comments he made earlier this year, which were perceived as being pro-Palestinian and against the war in Gaza.

Lawmakers from both the ruling coalition and opposition Yesh Atid and National Unity parties voted 14-2 in favour of impeachment, while two Knesset members from the Palestinian Ra'am and Ta'al parties opposed the move.

Odeh had earned the scorn of several Israeli lawmakers earlier this year when he welcomed a long-awaited ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

"I am happy about the release of the hostages and prisoners. From here, both peoples must be freed from the yoke of the occupation. We were all born free," Odeh wrote on 19 January after Hamas released three Israeli women after 471 days in captivity.

Israel's Knesset votes to impeach Palestinian lawmaker Ayman Odeh

^{Middle East Eye}

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5371548-hog-dnc-young-progressives-democrats-future/

Hello! How are folks self-hosting online storage, similar to Google Drive?

Some options I've found:
- filebrowser.org/ (maintenance-only mode)
- seafile.com/en/home/ (weird disk layout scares me)
- tinyfilemanager.github.io/ (i like simple!)
- github.com/mickael-kerjean/fil…

A bunch more: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/…

I mainly just need basic file management features. I don't plan to share files outside of my tailscale VPN. I do need to support multiple users though.

I'm not considering Nextcloud because that seems too big. I'm also not considering syncthing for this project because I don't want copies on multiple devices.

I'm currently just using ssh+nautilus and that's worked great for just me, but something similar to Google Drive would be easier to onboard my family.

GitHub - mickael-kerjean/filestash: :file_folder: A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ...

:file_folder: A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ... - mickael-kerjean/filestash

^GitHub

cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/219242

From Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera via this RSS feed

Dutch memorial honours Palestinian children killed in Gaza

Thousands of shoes were laid out in the Dutch city of Almere to commemorate Palestinian children killed in Gaza.

^{Al Jazeera}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32194427

GodlessCommie

2025-06-29 02:17:31

Capitalism ends poverty

U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.

Data from this instrument also reveals sea ice extent, and that can't be allowed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/climate/noaa-hurricane-data-offline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.kqbU.j0qTfurfIEkT

On the wall of the League of Social Democrats office, the Chinese characters for freedom are spelt out with court admission slips.

Members of the party take turns speaking into a microphone connected to a loudspeaker. They stand in front of a banner that reads "rather be ashes than dust", written in Chinese. Founded close to 20 years ago, the party is known as the last protest group in Hong Kong.

"The red lines are now everywhere," Chan Po Ying, the chair of the party, tells the BBC. "Our decision to disband was because we were facing a lot of pressure."

One of Hong Kong's last major pro-democracy parties disbands

It is the third major opposition party to disband this year, ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Beijing-imposed national security law.

^{Danny Vincent (BBC News)}