C’era questo gioco intrigante (e non mi è ancora chiaro se sia spassoso o meno, ma senza dubbio è intrigante) uscito all’inizio di quest’anno… una roba che se fosse anonima e uscisse dal nulla, con personaggi mai visti, probabilmente nessuno se la sarebbe cagata neanche di striscio, ma il caso ha voluto che fosse del […]

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minioctt

2025-04-08 17:58:31

“pirateria hello kitty”

C’era questo gioco intrigante (e non mi è ancora chiaro se sia spassoso o meno, ma senza dubbio è intrigante) uscito all’inizio di quest’anno… una roba che se fosse anonima e uscisse dal nulla, con personaggi mai visti, probabilmente nessuno se la sarebbe cagata neanche di striscio, ma il caso ha voluto che fosse del franchise di Ciao Gattino: Hello Kitty Island Adventure. 🤯

E quindi boh, tutto qui, probabile GOTY. Ne avevo sentito parlare non ricordo se poco prima o poco dopo l’uscita, ma fatto sta che costa quanto un tripla A dei vecchi tempi, e quando lo cercai questi mesi fa non lo trovai aggratis, quindi me ne dimenticai… fino a qualche giorno fa, in cui mi è tornato in mente, e dunque oggi l’ho cercato: ancora non è stato crackato per PC, perché c’è di mezzo il Denuvo di merda, ma si da il caso che sia disponibile per Switch… e quindi disponibile gratis a casa mia, ops. 🏴‍☠️
t.me/c/1519410362/374253 — ifunny.co/picture/hello-kitty-…
L’ho dunque scaricato, installato, avviato, e boh (di nuovo), ora se non mi passa la voglia lo proverò un po’ meglio. Potrebbe diventare un nuovo #meme, per quanto è particolare, chi lo sa… le premesse sono varie e tutte buone:

• Potrebbe rivelarsi estremamente difficile — hardcore, persino — e quindi inevitabilmente picco #gaming. Ho percepito la tremenda difficoltà quando sono atterrata sull’isola, ricevendo a schermo una notifica di dover cercare Hello Kitty, e ho impiegato 10 minuti per trovarla, perché la mappa si sblocca subito dopo questa missione e io giustamente senza guida ho scelto la strada sbagliata, per esplorare…
• Al di là del gaming, associare Hello Kitty alla #pirateria (che diviene automatico in questo caso, visto che questo è il modo in cui mi sono procurata il gioco) ha quello stesso vibe da ragazza Tumblr edgy, che la associa al sangue, all’autolesionismo, alla violenza e più in generale alla malattia mentale… E mi sento come Spongebob che viene urlato in faccia da Squiddi che rimarca come tutto ciò non sia vero… quando io sono certa che lei nasconda cose molto oscure sotto quell’aspetto così innocente……

#gaming #HelloKitty #HelloKittyIslandAdventure #meme #pirateria

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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration diverted $10 million in state settlement money last year to the charity arm of a welfare initiative led by his wife.

The unusual injection of cash was part of an undisclosed settlement agreement involving Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. The money went to the Hope Florida Foundation, a nonprofit that was established by the state to help realize Casey DeSantis’ vision to reshape welfare.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration's firing of 16,000 probationary federal employees to go forward, at least for now.

In an unsigned opinion and without addressing the question of whether the terminations themselves were lawful, the court said the nonprofits that brought the case did not have legal standing to sue over federal employees' firings.

The vote was 7 to 2. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have kept the firings paused while the case plays out in the lower courts, according to the order.

The federal agency now headed by former television host Mehmet Oz announced Monday that it is substantially boosting payments to privately run Medicare Advantage plans, a boon for an industry notorious for overcharging taxpayers and denying patients necessary care.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it is jacking up payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by more than 5% for 2026—an increase of over $25 billion. That's more than double the increase proposed by the Biden administration.

Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion

"Privatized Medicare plans are denying patients the care they need, while defrauding the government of billions a year," said one advocacy group. "Donald Trump is giving them even more taxpayer money."

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

The Supreme Court has granted a request by the Trump administration to temporarily block a lower court order requiring that a deported Salvadorian man be returned to the US.

Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to pause a ruling that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be brought back from El Salvador by midnight on Monday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: US Supreme Court pauses order requiring return of deported man

The Trump administration argues that El Salvador cannot be compelled to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian migrant, to the US.

^{Kayla Epstein (BBC News)}

Summary:

The federal agency now headed by former television host Mehmet Oz announced Monday that it is substantially boosting payments to privately run Medicare Advantage plans, a boon for an industry notorious for overcharging taxpayers and denying patients necessary care.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it is jacking up payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by more than 5% for 2026—an increase of over $25 billion. That's more than double the increase proposed by the Biden administration.

Health insurance company stocks jumped in response to the news of the Trump administration's payment hike, with shares of UnitedHealth Group—the largest provider of Medicare Advantage plans—rising more than 6% following the CMS statement.

Oz, whom the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed in a party-line vote last week, previously reported holding tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in companies with interests before CMS, including UnitedHealth.

Social Security Works, a progressive advocacy group that campaigns against Medicare Advantage, said Monday that "privatized Medicare plans are denying patients the care they need, while defrauding the government of billions a year."

"Trump is giving them even more taxpayer money," the group wrote on social media. "Trump-Musk don't care about 'efficiency.' They care about stealing our money."

Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion

"Privatized Medicare plans are denying patients the care they need, while defrauding the government of billions a year," said one advocacy group. "Donald Trump is giving them even more taxpayer money."

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-mass-firings-02e218d2b7ee59925ddcb597b6b0a4fe

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-mass-firings-02e218d2b7ee59925ddcb597b6b0a4fe

Archive: archive.is/2025.04.07-144241/t…

In a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in Delhi’s Nehru Place, the air hums with the sound of whirring drills and the crackle of soldering irons. Sushil Prasad, a 35-year-old technician, wipes the sweat off his brow as he carefully pieces together the guts of an old laptop. It is a daily ritual — resurrecting machines by stitching together motherboards, screens, and batteries scavenged from other trashed older laptops and e-waste — to create functional, low-cost devices.

“India has always had a repair culture … but companies are pushing planned obsolescence”

“Right now, there is a huge demand for such ‘hybrid’ laptops,” Prasad says, his hands swapping out a damaged motherboard. “Most people don’t care about having the latest model; they just want something that works and won’t break the bank.”

The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets

Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.

^{Hanan Zaffar (The Verge)}

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/20547061

The new furnaces — which run on climate-friendly hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal — would have extended the life of the plant and given the steel company a foot in the future.

But those grants, which would have created over 100 permanent jobs and 1,200 construction jobs in Middletown alone, are slated for termination under the Trump administration

Part of the reasoning behind the structure of the Inflation Reduction Act was that Republicans wouldn't cut off their nose to spite their face. They turned out to have a lot more spite than expected.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/climate/steel-project-federal-cuts-middletown-ohio/index.html

Summary

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices to co-sign key parts of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s blistering dissent in a 5-4 ruling allowing Trump to resume deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

The four female justices warned the deportations could “have life or death consequences” for detainees sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison without judicial review.

Right-wing figures erupted, branding Barrett a “DEI hire” and “disgraceful.”

Influencers like Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk accused her of betraying conservative values despite past praise.

Amy Coney Barrett Joins Liberals to Defy Trump—Again

The conservative justice got blasted by MAGAworld for an earlier ruling against the Trump administration, but the backlash didn’t stop her from doing it again.

^{Julia Ornedo (The Daily Beast)}

Lemmy 0.19.11 (which I've just upgraded AZ to) has a new feature to allow regular federation, but require users be logged in to view content.

I'd like to gauge feedback from users on this. It will not add privacy, or limit the propagation of posts/comments etc. But it will limit AZ server resource consumption by users that are not logged in.

Thoughts/concerns on enabling this feature?

Nonostante ci sia stato un aggiornamento ieri a 0.19.10 oggi è uscito l'aggiornamento 0.19.11 e dato che si porta dietro un security fix ho deciso di farlo subito, quindi ora siamo sulla 0.19.11.

Ecco le novità, traduzione automatica da qui:

Backend

• Rimuovere le chiamate non necessarie di pictrs purge (#5566)
• Finestra di dialogo per le donazioni (#5559)
• Inviare email dopo la registrazione negata, email confermata (#5553)
• Cambiare l'impostazione dell'istanza privata per consentire la federazione (#5530)
• Proxy post. url se è un'immagine (#5545)
• Quando si crea una comunità, copiare le lingue consentite dal profilo del creatore (#5490)
• Includere il testo alt dell'immagine nella ricerca dei post (#5449)
• Aggiungere l'opzione di configurazione per abilitare la registrazione json (#5471, #5557)
• Incorporare le immagini nei feed RSS (#5488)
• Correggere la federazione dei post appiccicosi (#5593)
• L'utente cancellato non dovrebbe rompere la casella di posta in uscita della federazione (#5443, #5573)
• Correggere alcuni incorporamenti di immagini con l'escape del testo alt (#5506)
• Federare correttamente i commenti di distinzione (#5586)
• Aumentare il limite di registrazione predefinito a 10 all'ora (#5600)
• Rimuovere il ratelimit di debug usato in produzione (#5551)

Frontend

• Implementare la finestra di dialogo per le donazioni (#3034)
• Nascondere le immagini nei rapporti dei messaggi privati (#3053)
• Non renderizzare le immagini nei messaggi privati (#3043)
• Cambiare il testo della casella di controllo “Solo i moderatori possono postare in questa comunità” da legenda a etichetta nella pagina Crea comunità (#3046)
• Attivare l'errore di toast in caso di fallimento della richiesta di comunità (#3045)
• Aggiungere il link locale accanto a fedilink nei post (#3033)
• Aggiungere i badge per i messaggi e i commenti vietati (#3030)
• Linkare le menzioni @ degli utenti (#3029)
• Aggiungere la possibilità per i mod di visualizzare i voti. (#3027)
• Le icone “upvote”, “downvote”, “view source” e “favorite” diventano più grandi quando vengono premute per migliorare la visibilità sugli schermi in scala di grigi (#2960)
• Migliorare il contrasto del colore della mini-sovrapposizione nell'angolo in alto a destra delle miniature dei post con link o immagini (#2961)
• Migliorare l'accessibilità degli screenreader aggiungendo un elemento principale a più pagine (problema #2891) (#2944)
• Usare un gruppo di input per i pulsanti ‘allowed’ e “block instance”. (#2905)
• Spostare le impostazioni di totp e di cancellazione degli account nelle proprie schede. (#2907)
• Nascondere il campo NSFW per il modulo di creazione dei post, per le comunità NSFW. (#2887)
• Modificare la logica per l'aggiunta dell'URL dopo il caricamento di un'immagine, posizionando l'URL dell'immagine dopo il cursore. (#2804)

Purging users or communities or banning users can delete images they didn't upload/exclusively use

### Summary An improper uploaded media ownership check can result in inadvertent deletion of media when a user is banned with content removal or purged. This can lead to deletion of media that was...

^GitHub

cross-posted from: lemmy.asudox.dev/post/188744

The attacker seems to be the admin of those two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.

Edit: It is now open for both of them, or was already. I checked the Fediseer page for both instances and it still says that their registrations are closed.

Though it is suspicious that no captcha, email confirmation or manual approval is required for both of these instances. The admin of lemmy.doesnotexist.club seems to be inactive since their account creation yet this instance is still running. If the admin is the attacker, it could also be that they are the one behind the recent nicole spam.

gui.fediseer.com/instances/det…

gui.fediseer.com/instances/det…

cross-posted from: hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are

• lemmy.doesnotexist.club
• chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts
:::spoiler bot-list

LightIsland@chinese.lol
MagnificentRow@chinese.lol
FondKnowledge@chinese.lol
SillyTowel95@chinese.lol
HelplessDear@chinese.lol
SomberBrain@chinese.lol
InexperiencedCloset@chinese.lol
NecessaryPerson11@chinese.lol
ClosedEmployment@chinese.lol
CoarseHair420@chinese.lol
BurlyChampionship49@chinese.lol
ZigzagNatural@chinese.lol
QuestionableDirt@chinese.lol
ProudDeparture@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
JoyousDouble@chinese.lol
UnitedPatience@chinese.lol
MajesticArea@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
SinfulConference@chinese.lol
MoralDivide96@chinese.lol
LeadingCarry65@chinese.lol
FrillyOpinion38@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
LimitedDiscount49@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
ForkedScreen@chinese.lol
MediumChemistry13@chinese.lol
xXxLawfulGrassxXx@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
VisibleSentence@chinese.lol
AcidicLawyer90@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
PriceySink14@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
ExcellentBeach@chinese.lol
VivaciousNews@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
LankyIndependent32@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
SpeedyFault@chinese.lol
ConcreteHall89@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
WorthyPoint12@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
SurprisedAdult99@chinese.lol
FlashyCrack@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
MasculineBeing@chinese.lol
RichWeird@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
DryCash97@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
AuthorizedChair@chinese.lol
SlimKiss@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
AromaticRoof78@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
BewitchedInterview@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
ImaginaryDraw@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
PertinentGround@chinese.lol
SinfulAssumption@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
AwkwardAnybody30@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
UnwillingRestaurant@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
InsubstantialOven@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
:::

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)

Summary

A new YouGov poll reveals widespread disapproval of President Trump's recent tariff policies, with 51% of Americans viewing them as "the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history."

The survey shows 50% disapprove of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs announced April 2nd, which imposed a baseline 10% levy on all imports with additional tariffs on specific countries.

Trump escalated tensions by threatening China with 50% additional tariffs if they don't withdraw their retaliatory measures.

Even Ted Cruz expressed concern, calling tariffs "a tax on consumers."

Donald Trump's Polling After 'Liberation Day' is Disastrous For Republicans

More Americans want tariffs on foreign goods to decrease than increase according to a new YouGov poll.

^{James Bickerton (Newsweek)}

Gli Stati Uniti ritireranno i propri soldati e il proprio equipaggiamento militare dalla base di Rzeszów, nel sudest della Polonia, vicino al confine dell'Ucraina, per riposizionarli in altri siti del Paese.

Lo ha annunciato oggi il Comando dell'esercito statunitense in Europa e Africa.

Nel comunicato viene riportato che i militari verranno ricollocati in altri siti (sempre in Polonia) e che il comando della base di Rzeszów sarà affidato alla guida polacca e della NATO.

L'operazione permetterà ai contribuenti americani di risparmiare decine di milioni di dollari (sic).

Non si tratta quindi di un ridimensionamento, ma di un riposizionamento, hanno sottolineato il presidente polacco Duda e il ministro della difesa Kosiniak-Kamysz, che hanno subito voluto gettare acqua sul fuoco.

Il problema è che questo annuncio giunge in contemporanea con una notizia rimbalzata dalla NBC, e finora non confermata né smentita, di un possibile ridimensionamento del numero di militari americani nell'Europa orientale, circa 10mila tra Polonia e Romania.

Questa mossa cozzerebbe con tutte le rassicurazioni fatte fin qui da Washington circa il suo impegno nella regione, e creerebbe forte instabilità nell'area. Vale la pena ricordare come tra poche settimane proprio Polonia e Romania si recheranno alle urne per due tornate elettorali estremamente importanti.

Pentagon considering proposal to cut thousands of troops from Europe, officials say

Pentagon officials are considering a plan to withdraw as many as 10,000 troops from Eastern Europe, according to six U.S. and European officials.

^{Gordon Lubold (NBC News)}

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/trump-politics-tariffs-backlash-republicans-00007065

Alt text:

Tweet saying: My bf was slow cooking ribs and I guess they were done in the middle of the night. So this man wakes me up at 3 am and goes "here babe, i brought you a rib." So we sat in bed and ate ribs. I've found my soulmate.