Nintendo has intentionally implemented measures to restrict third-party accessories, including docks, hubs, and other accessories, from working with the new Switch 2. According to two accessory manufacturers who spoke to The Verge, the console maker is making use of a new encryption method as well as an encryption chip. Previously, a similar report by GamesRadar suggested that the change in power requirements (20V) on the Switch 2 has restricted accessory makers like Jsaux, from making docks for the new handheld hybrid console. However, it seems that the real reason is that Nintendo has made changes to the USB-C protocols, which now require “re-adaptation for both power delivery and video output."

Further investigation done by Sean Hollister, senior editor at The Verge, reveals more evidence. Traditionally, when a user plugs a dock or hub into a USB-C port on a laptop or tablet, a standardized set of structured instructions is sent out to enable successful communication between the host and the dock. The instructions first deliver the correct amount of power using the PD (Power Delivery) protocol and then enable other features like HDMI or DisplayPort video out, Ethernet, and so on.

Nintendo is restricting the Switch 2's USB-C port — most third-party docks and accessories won't work thanks to proprietary protocols

Third-party docks are locked out

^{Kunal Khullar (Tom's Hardware)}

IdeaLab is notifying individuals impacted by a data breach incident last October when hackers accessed sensitive information.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/idealab-confirms-data-stolen-in-ransomware-attack-last-year/

The world building and lore introduced in Secrets of the Atlas has set us up for expansions to come! We asked our Audio and Narrative Director Kane, to delve into some of the intricacies of piecing all of its components together.

Hello! Kane here. You may know me previously as the Audio Lead at GGG... Well I'm still one of those, but now also narrative falls under my wheelhouse. I often pinch myself as a reminder that I'm not dreaming because this is quite literally a dream combination of things I love... and let me tell you, it brings me a great deal of joy!

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Secrets of the Atlas. I should mention upfront, if you want to experience Secrets of the Atlas without spoilers, perhaps don't read this. It is a bit tricky to discuss its narrative development without going into at least some of the details.

As is the case these days, Mark (Neon) and I began with some bullet points for the basic narrative of what we'd be working towards. For Secrets of the Atlas, those were something along the lines of:

• Zana.
• ... Brother?!
• ...... THREE SHAPER-ESQUE BOSSES?! OMG!

After those initial conversations, I knew we were off to a strong start and I was hyped to get started and piece together the dialogue and events for the narrative design. The initial premise here was to uncover what Zana has been doing since we lost track of her in the Atlas. That expanded into three main components to the expansion's story, with Zana's plight at the core of it all.

The first component: Eagon

Introducing Eagon, a mysterious fellow claiming to be Zana's brother, gave us a lot of interesting angles to explore Zana's mission from. Like us veteran Exiles, he knows a lot about Zana and feels a connection to her, yet she is essentially a stranger to him. He believes that she simply must have all the answers to his burning questions about his heritage... and yet life is never so simple. He has spent his life trying to uncover and realize who he is and perhaps, why he is.

Working towards unraveling who Eagon is and helping him try to piece things together makes him quite relatable as a person. Despite his rather pompous sense of entitlement (we are all flawed), he just wants to understand who he is, his place in the world and to save who he believes to be his sister.

The Voice of Eagon

When casting this character, I knew we needed a voice actor who could fully embody Eagon's unique personality and portray it correctly. One audition immediately stuck out as the right fit. Leon Wadham brought Eagon to life in a perfect way.

The second component: Zana

Interestingly for this expansion, Zana doesn't exactly occupy screen-time a great deal. It is what she has created that we are able to explore, and trying to understand why she has done so is what drives the story forward. Eagon discovers that Zana has been experimenting with the Atlas and manifesting memories, and even ideas, into reality. But why?

We are able to see what has mattered most to her, in the very areas we traverse and the figures we fight. In many ways, this exposure to Zana is more effective than even talking to her directly. Her memory threads are split into 3 groups of paired themes, based on Loneliness and Neglect, Trauma and Fear, and Reverence and Dread.

Loneliness and Neglect

This is first touched on by encountering a form of Sirus at a time unfamiliar to us, exploring the deeper part of their connection and her regrets with what became of a relationship she neglected.

Once we defeat this part of the thread, we can enter the 'Moment of Loneliness' where we witness Zana as a child, trying and failing, to get her father's attention. This moment then transforms into the 'Incarnation of Neglect', where a permutation of her father is presented as a monstrous creation that we must overcome on her behalf.

Trauma and Fear

These themes are explored by her residual trauma from the Templars and how they treated her and her father, exemplified by the fight with the Cardinal of Fear.

This allows us entry into the 'Moment of Trauma' where we witness young Zana making her father quite cross. This moment then becomes the 'Incarnation of Fear', a frightening imagining of someone her father never truly was.

Reverence and Dread

This theme is shown in the form of Innocence, a God, taking the main stage as a revered but deceitful figure - yet another whose promises are to be broken. This thread line shows that even with good intentions, the grip of power can subvert even divine motivations.

After beating this form of Innocence, we can enter the 'Moment of Reverence' where we witness child Zana watching her father deliver a speech in Oriath. This moment is then reshaped into the 'Incarnation of Dread', showing just how much her fathers notoriety and influence affected her.

The Voice of Zana

Zana is back, baby! It was fantastic to have Katherine Kennard back to reprise her role, and she did so quite effortlessly. It is quite amazing how actors can return to a role after some time and immediately lock-in and become the character again.

The third component: Valdo

At the core of Zana's plight is her father, as it has always been. But what do those memories mean to Zana? Moments that mean little to grown adults, but leave a permanent imprint on a child. Eagon construes these moments as mutations by the Atlas, overblown realisations of a child's memories - but are they? Or is this intentional on Zana's behalf? And why? Good questions!

The Voice of Valdo

That deep and rich presence and voice... Daryl Habraken returns, but not exactly as The Shaper. This time, we hear a little more from Zana's father, rather than who he became.

Who is the Originator?

Finally, at the end of this part of the story, we learn part of Zana's true ambitions. We learn that Eagon's situation remains further complicated. And most importantly: we learn that we have more to learn. And I for one, cannot wait to unravel these threads even further.

Hang on... who is the Originator again? It is Zana, right? Hmm...

Until next time, friends!

Facebook mogul’s sudden appearance is increasingly typical of freewheeling West Wing during Donald Trump’s second term, which president has reportedly nicknamed ‘Grand Central Terminal’

Air Force leaders learned that lesson earlier this year when they arrived for a top-secret briefing with Trump in the Oval Office, which according to NBC News was scheduled for them to discuss plans for America’s sixth-generation fighter aircraft, dubbed the F-47 in a nod to Trump’s status as the 47th President of the United States.

As the generals were going over the details of the super-stealthy plane, which Trump has called the most advanced, capable and lethal combat aircraft platform ever built, they were startled by the appearance of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg popping into the Oval Office.

According to NBC, White House officials became concerned that Zuckerberg, one of the wealthiest men in the world, lacked the security clearance required to be present for talks about such a sensitive national security matter.

Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report

^{Andrew Feinberg (The Independent)}

Fifty-eight percent of U.S. adults are extremely or very proud to be Americans, the lowest in Gallup's 25-year trend.

American Pride Slips to New Low

^{Jeffrey M. Jones (Gallup)}

Hello comrades, I recently started to selfhost my own VPN. I thought of using a regular VPN provider but I don't trust the cheap ones and the good ones are too costly for my needs. So I started to rent a cheap one core VPS (DMCA ignored of course) for 2,5€/month. Before that I tried some seedboxes from some cheap providers, but the amount of control you have there was absolutely terrible. If they have SSH access, you have no sudo permission.

One of those providers I tried just deploys docker containers and then using some fancy marketing they make a good amount of cash from something that one can do oneself with a little bit of technical knowledge. And then when something doesn't work; good luck my friend.

So that's why I choose a VPS where you have maximum control. Setting it all up including security measures and a custom OS is very fun.
My distro of choice is Devuan. I'm running a Debian based distro myself and having no systemd not only boosts the startup time, but saves some system resources, which is especially important on a server with 1 GB RAM.

Installing Devuan was quite an adventure. Navigating their website to find the right download is like cruising a wild jungle. After choosing a mirror to downloaded from, one has to check the name of the latest release. After that I selected "installer-iso". In there I grabed the netinstall. From there the real adventure began. Among the "standard stuff" I had to specify the DNS and netmask, nothing wild. I didn't installed a desktop environment of course, just the ssh-server components.

I then followed Wolgangs guide to setup SSH. Managing a computer without a desktop environment is something I never had done before and while on a desktop PC this can be a horrifying experience, it's really fun to operate a remote system via command line.
For enhanced security I activated and configured ufw. Many distros comes preinstalled with gufw, so setting up ufw wasn't a big deal.

Without systemd many Wireguard install script doesn't work, so I installed Wireguard via docker-compose with the help of Christian Lempas wonderful guide. Amazing guy.
I had to enter the DNS servers manually so that the actual DNS addresses of the server are used.

I tried to route IPv6 traffic through the VPN by entering the IPv6 address in brackets into the docker-compose.yaml, adding ::/0 in the AllowedIPs, but it all didn't worked. So I had to deactivate IPv6 on my system and in the network manager. This stopped all IPv6 leaks.

As killswitch I found this easy method. I tested it and it works. No IP-leaks anymore.

To prevent DNS leaks I found these commands: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP, sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DROP.
I tried the ufw equivalent sudo ufw deny out 53/udp, sudo ufw deny out 53/tcp, but it blocks internet access.
I make the iptables persistent with iptables-save since iptables-persistent conflicts with gufw and ufw.

With this setup I started my torrent client and saw that I'm barely seeding. That's not cool. I tried to set up port forwarding with a lot of iptables and routing tables like this one but when checking the port it's always closed.

So what now? My goal is to torrent over the I2P. I see a lot of potential in the I2P. It is basically what people envisioned the internet to be in the 90s. Since the internet is a military technology, freedom was never implicated, so even with a lot of obfuscation and circumvention, there is always some trouble when using clearnet. My intention with the VPN is to port over clearnet torrents to I2P. Thus the reliance on VPNs can be decreased.

Save iptables Rules After Reboot

Learn how to save iptables rules after reboot using iptables-persistent, iptables-save, and netfilter-persistent. Fix common issues like service iptables-save not working or iptables-save permission denied.

^{Haikel Fazzani}

Le origini del calcio femminile sono legate alla patria del football, la Gran Bretagna. Ma c'entra anche la Seconda rivoluzione industriale: le squadre di calciatrici inglesi nacquero infatti come dopolavoro per le operaie.

@calcio@diggita.com

#football

#calciofemminile

Eurepei di calcio femminile: ma quando è nato il calcio femminile?

Scopriamo le origini del calcio femminile, proprio mentre si aprono i campionati Europei 2025.

^Focus.it

FairPhone AMA is happening right now:
old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/com…

Vote on questions you'd like answers to, or ask your own.

cross-posted from: pawb.social/post/27451562

Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven't looked back.

store.steampowered.com/hwsurve…

Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner.

Search engines operating in Australia will need to implement age assurance technologies for logged-in users in "no later than six months”, under new rules published on Monday.

While only logged-in users will be required to have their age checked, many Australians typically surf the web while logged into accounts from Google, which dominates Australia’s search market and also runs Gmail and YouTube; and Microsoft, which runs the Bing search engine and email platform Outlook.

If a search engine’s age assurance systems believe a signed-in user is “likely to be an Australian child” under the age of 18, they will need to set safety tools such as “safe search” functions at their highest setting by default to filter out pornography and high impact violence, including in advertising.

Currently, Australians must be at least 13 years of age to manage their own Google or Microsoft account.

Australians to face age checks from search engines

Logged in to Google or Microsoft? Age assurance is coming.

^{Information Age}

How it started:

I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.

It's now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now:
BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS
Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich
ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS

How it's going:

With the heatwave in Europe I've now installed cooling to keep my HDD's from heating up.

I know it's Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I'll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.

It's a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2840456…

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Giovedì 3 luglio alle 18.30 inaugura al Fontanone di Faenza GROTTESCA, mostra personale di Roberto Coloma Nadal a cura di Enea Mazzotti. L’artista propone un viaggio visivo tra mondi surreali e ironici, ispirato alla pittura a grottesche riscoperta nel Rinascimento. Le sue opere, dense di simbolismo, sono popolate da diavoletti esili, creature antropomorfe e architetture fluttuanti, in un linguaggio decorativo rielaborato con sguardo giocoso e personale.

Le composizioni sono abitate da piccoli personaggi e visioni bizzarre che intrecciano ironia e meraviglia. La pittura diventa così uno spazio onirico, dove lo spettatore è invitato a perdersi lentamente nei dettagli.

A seguire, alle 19.30, il Trio La Rosa proporrà Mediterraneo d’Amore, concerto che attraversa le sonorità e le lingue delle coste mediterranee. Un repertorio che celebra emozioni e storie d’amore, con brani da Grecia, Turchia, Egitto, Spagna, Balcani e Nord Africa, eseguiti con strumenti tradizionali.

La mostra rientra nella rassegna estiva La Prospettiva estiva per il Fontanone, a cura dell’associazione Fatti d’Arte con direzione artistica di Veronica Bassani.

📅 Eventi in calendario:

Giovedì 10 luglio, ore 18.30 – Parole e movimento: presentazione del libro Buio Dentro di Edoardo Lughi con musica di Alex Bertozzi e performance di danza a cura di Anna Clara Conti per WAM! Festival.

Giovedì 17 luglio, ore 18.30 – Finissage: visita guidata con l’artista e il curatore Enea Mazzotti, seguita dallo spettacolo teatrale Sogno Today degli allievi di Fatti d’Arte.

📍 Fontanone, Faenza
🎟 Ingresso libero
📧 infofattidarteassociazione@gmail.com
📱 Instagram: @fatti_darte – Facebook: Fatti d’Arte

Fatti d’Arte, attiva dal 2015, promuove la cultura con progetti che intrecciano teatro, pittura, fotografia e riflessione sociale. Dal 2022 anima il Fontanone con eventi estivi dedicati alle arti.

GROTTESCA, mostra di Roberto Coloma Nadal al Fontanone di Faenza (Ra) - ViaggieMiraggi

AL FONTANONE DI FAENZA ARRIVA “GROTTESCA” LA MOSTRA DI ROBERTO COLOMA NADAL TRA ARTE, MUSICA E VISIONI ONIRICHE Giovedì 3 luglio alle ore 18.

^{Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)}