Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner purchase kernel-level root access to your computer via purchase of Electronics Arts and their kernel anti-cheat
The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.
::: spoiler I posted this to /c/news where it was promptly removed of course
For good reasons of course
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df showing a full (99%) ssd, but du only showing a fraction of that? UPDATED
I noticed the root drive of my home server (Debian) is at 99% capacity, which was odd to be because I don't store anything on the root ssd. sudo df -h confirms that 99% of my 256gb drive is full. But sudo du -sh * all added up, only comes to about 30gb.
This is a pc that only runs docker containers and one virtual machine for home assistant. And yes I have restarted, Any ideas as to how to find the missing 200+ gigabytes?
EDIT: sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.
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Where are you running du -sh *? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I'm sure it's obvious, but can never hurt to check!
What does du -sh / show? (Generally, the * glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)
EDIT sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.
~~sudo du -sh / shows a list of three du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs' Permission denied and du: cannot access No such file or directory and a few cannot read directory invalid argument and at the end it shows 5.4T / which I assume is my root drive combined with what's in mnt.~~
North Korea to further strengthen ties with China, foreign minister says
The countries are traditional allies but their relationship has been complex and strained at times.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
North Korea to further strengthen ties with China, foreign minister says
The countries are traditional allies but their relationship has been complex and strained at times. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Tile’s lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking
Its anti-stalking features are reportedly too easy to circumvent.
Tile’s lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking
Tile could allow stalkers to exploit its network by intercepting the tracking information attached to its tags, according to research highlighted by Wired.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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American Airlines Airbus A321 Slams On Brakes During Takeoff As AeroLogic Boeing 777 Crosses Runway At LAX
A disaster was narrowly avoided at LAX thanks to the sharpness and quick thinking of pilots and the controller. Here's what happened and why.
Skyrim Grandma is Retiring Again
The popular Skyrim Grandma reveals that she is retiring from YouTube once again after returning to her channel earlier this year.
US | Cannabis company owner wins $1.9M verdict in lawsuit against the city and lawmakers have to pay out of their own pockets
The lawsuit follows an investigation from the media and federal officials into alleged corruption surrounding city of Baldwin Park’s legal cannabis licensing process
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Venezuela's Maduro grants military additional authority in case of invasion
Venezuelan President Nicolas Madura signed a decree increasing his authority over the military and certain public services, the Venezuelan VP said on Monday. The US has recently deployed warships in the Caribbean, leading Maduro's government to respond as if to an "undeclared war."
Archived version: archive.is/20250929224840/fran…
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Three EU states paid more for Russian LNG than they gave to Ukraine
Some EU member states paid more for Russian LNG than they gave in financial support for Ukraine, a new report by Greenpeace Belgium shows. With that €8bn Russia could have bought 270,000 Shahed attack drones.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/euobserver.c…
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Afghanistan hit by internet blackout as Taliban cuts fibre optic cables
Phone and internet connections are down nationwide after the Taliban cut fibre-optic connections to prevent "immorality".
Archived version: archive.is/20250929214715/bbc.…
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Remedy's FBC: Firebreak receives "systemic overhauls" and new content with first update
Remedy Entertainment has acknowledged the poor reception to its co-op game FBC: Firebreak and released its first major update aimed at softening its pain points.
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension
YouTube will pay $24.5 million to President Trump to resolve a 2021 lawsuit that claimed he was the victim of censorship when the site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters, according to federal court papers filed on Monday.
Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…
Sheinbaum announces expanded seed bank protection for Mexico's 64 corn varieties
The announcement is part of a larger agricultural program dubbed "Sin maíz no hay país," which aims to support corn producers.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/mexiconewsda…
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Sheinbaum announces expanded seed bank protection for Mexican corn
The announcement is part of a larger agricultural program dubbed "Sin maíz no hay país," which aims to support corn producers.MND Staff (Mexico News Daily)
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel
With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained' and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the treewww.phoronix.com
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Proposition 50: Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. [NOV 05 2025 | California]
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36665946
Proposition 50
Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.ANALYSIS OF MEASURE
BACKGROUND
U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress. The U.S. Congress is the part of the federal government that makes laws. Congress has two parts: the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives (House). Each of the 50 states is represented by 2 senators, with 100 senators in total. The House has 435 members. The number of representatives in the House for each state depends on how many people live in that state. Each member in the House represents an area of the state called a congressional district. California currently has 52 congressional districts. Voters who live in each congressional district elect one member of the House every two years to represent them. The next election for all 435 representatives will be in 2026.U.S. Census Counts States’ Populations Every Ten Years. The number of people living in an area goes up and down over time. Every ten years, the U.S. Census counts the number of people who live in the U.S. The last census was in 2020, and the next census is in 2030. This count is used to determine how many people live in each state and how many representatives in the House each state gets for the next ten years.
Congressional Redistricting
Each State Draws Congressional District Maps Following the U.S. Census. Every ten years, after the U.S. Census is completed, states draw new congressional district maps to reflect their number of House representatives and where people live. This process is called “redistricting.” Each state decides what process to use to draw its new district maps. When drawing new maps, each state must follow federal laws. For example, each congressional district in the state must represent about the same number of people.
States Typically Do Not Redistrict Sooner Than Every Ten Years. States typically only draw congressional district maps every ten years, unless a court orders changes to comply with the law. In August 2025, however, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to adopt new maps for the 2026 elections without a court order. Several other states also are considering changes to their maps before the 2026 elections.
Congressional Redistricting in California. State legislatures draw congressional district maps in most states, but some states use commissions to do this job. Before 2010, the California Legislature drew the state’s congressional district maps. In 2010, California voters gave this job to an independent commission known as the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (Commission). The Commission includes 14 members: 5 Democratic members, 5 Republican members, and 4 members who are not registered with either of those political parties. When the Commission draws new congressional district maps, it must follow federal and state laws. For example, state law requires, among other things, the Commission to avoid splitting up neighborhoods or local communities of interest to the extent possible. State law also prohibits the Commission from considering political parties, current office holders, or people running for office when it draws the maps.
Current California Congressional Districts. The Commission drew the current maps for California’s 52 congressional districts. These maps were based on the 2020 U.S. Census and have been used since the 2022 congressional elections.
PROPOSAL
California’s Congressional District MapsUse Legislatively Drawn Congressional District Maps Until After the Next Census. Proposition 50 replaces California’s current congressional district maps with new, legislatively drawn maps. (The total number of districts would not change.) Proposition 50’s maps must follow federal law, but they are not required to follow the state requirements placed on the Commission. The state would use Proposition 50’s maps for congressional elections starting in 2026. The state would use these maps until the Commission draws new district maps, following the 2030 U.S. Census.
National Congressional Redistricting
Call for Change in Federal Law. Proposition 50 asks the U.S. Congress to change federal law and propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require redistricting be done by “fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide.” Proposition 50 expresses voter support for this idea, but does not change federal law or require any particular action of Congress or the California Legislature.
FISCAL EFFECTS
Minor One-Time Costs to County and State Elections Officials. Counties run elections, and the state oversees them. Because most congressional districts in California would change at least some under the new maps, county and state elections officials would need to update election materials. This would result in one-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide and one-time costs to the state of roughly $200,000. The state amount is much less than one-tenth of 1 percent (0.1 percent) of the state’s roughly $220 billion General Fund budget. (The General Fund is the account the state uses to pay for most public services, including education, health care, and prisons.)
CURRENT AND PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAPS
This section shows maps of the current and proposed congressional districts (1) statewide, as shown in Figures 1 and 2; (2) in the northern part of the state, as shown in Figures 3 and 4; and (3) in the southern part of the state, as shown in Figures 5 and 6. A description of the census blocks represented by each district in the proposed maps can be found at the following website: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac…
Figure 1 - Current Congressional Districts
Notice of Correction. Figure 2 in the analysis of Proposition 50 contained a typographical error. District 27, which is to the right of District 26, was incorrectly labeled as District 22. This typographical error has been corrected.
Figure 2 - Proposed Congressional Districts
Figure 3 - Current Northern Congressional Districts
Figure 4 - Proposed Northern Congressional Districts
Figure 5 - Current Southern Congressional Districts
Figure 6 - Proposed Southern Congressional Districts
YES/NO STATEMENT
A YES vote on this measure means: The state would use new, legislatively drawn congressional district maps starting in 2026. California’s new maps would be used until the California Citizens Redistricting Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census.
A NO vote on this measure means: Current congressional district maps drawn by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (Commission) would continue to be used in California until the Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census.
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S ESTIMATE OF NET STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL IMPACT
- One-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide. County costs would be to update election materials to reflect new congressional district maps.
BALLOT LABEL
Fiscal Impact: One-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide to update election materials to reflect new congressional district maps.^[[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250918004136/https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025]
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- Fixed hyperlink for [1]
Proposition 50 | Official Voter Information Guide | California Secretary of State
Official Voter Information Guide, November 4, 2025, California Statewide Special Election.voterguide.sos.ca.gov
Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD Foundation
Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD Foundation
The survey also underscored the importance of growing the next generation of contributors. While experienced developers continue to share deep expertise that keeps FreeBSD strong, it’s equally important to welcome fresh perspectives.FreeBSD Foundation
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Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner purchase kernel-level root access to your computer via purchase of Electronics Arts and their kernel anti-cheat Removed by mod
The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.
Of course, immediately removed by mods of /c/news
Does anyone know how to Find and uninstall ALL steam games from my computer and ensure they are never accidentally installed again ?
Fortnite disables Peacemaker emote that might resemble a swastika
Epic will “inquire into our partner’s creative intentions” before making a final decision.
Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent
Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say
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Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search
Brave Software, the creator of the privacy-focused web browser and search engine, has introduced a new subsystem called Ask Brave that unifies search and AI chat into a single interface.
Harrods suffers new data breach exposing 430,000 customer records
UK retail giant Harrods has disclosed a new cybersecurity incident after hackers compromised a third-party supplier and stole 430,000 records with sensitive e-commerce customer information.
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[Announcement] Play the Path of Exile 2 Boss Rush Event at Brasil Game Show 2025
Next week, Path of Exile 2's Boss Rush Event will be available at Brasil Game Show 2025! If you're attending the expo, be sure to visit our booth and challenge yourself against 15 bosses. Check out this announcement to find out more about the event.
Brasil Game Show 2025 - Tickets are still available!
- When: 10 October -- 12 October 2025, from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Where: Booth PO02 - Distrito Anhembi Av. Olavo Fontoura, 1209 - Santana, São Paulo
Good luck, Exiles!
Early Access Announcements - Play the Path of Exile 2 Boss Rush Event at Brasil Game Show 2025 - 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
California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53
California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53 | TechCrunch
SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblower protections for employees at those companies.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
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This is fluff. SB 243 is the real deal, which he already vetoed once.
The governor is also weighing another bill – SB 243 – that passed both the State Assembly and Senate with bipartisan support this month. The bill would regulate AI companion chatbots, requiring operators to implement safety protocols, and hold them legally accountable if their bots fail to meet those standards.
Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
An independent reporter claims that more than 1.7 million paying subscribers canceled their plans to DIsney streaming services.Anna Washenko (Engadget)
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F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid sees Google’s plans as a threat to FOSS apps.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
[Feed] BSD-related users and communities
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Argentina’s soy exports to China soar, angering US
Argentina’s soy exports to China soar amid US bailout, fuelling tensions in Trump camp
China’s soybean buyers turn to Argentina after tax drop, leaving US farmers sidelined and Washington unhappy.Igor Patrick (South China Morning Post)
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My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival | David Cross
My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival
I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here.Official David Cross Online Store
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Democrats leave White House with no deal
With just over 24 hours before the government is set to shutdown, Donald Trump and congressional leaders from both parties emerged from a high-stakes White House meeting on Monday with no agreement, setting the stage for large swaths of the federal government to close after midnight Wednesday.
The impasse came after closed-door talks between the four top congressional leaders and Trump in the Oval Office, where lawmakers appeared to trade blame but make little progress towards a deal. “There are still large differences between us,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the meeting, claiming that Republicans refused to engage on their core demands around health care and restoring previous funding cuts.
“Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input,” he added, taking aim at a House-passed seven-week stopgap funding bill that Senate Democrats rejected last week. “That is never how we’ve done this before.”
https://time.com/7321745/government-shutdown-trump-meeting-democrats/
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China highlights achievements of water infrastructure during 14th Five-Year Plan period
China highlights achievements of water infrastructure during 14th Five-Year Plan period
China has built the world's largest, most comprehensive and most populous water infrastructure system, said officials from China's Ministry of Water Resources on Monday at a press conference about the achievements of the country's water conservancy d…CGTN
Over 40 percent of US citizens believe backing Israel ‘not in national interest’: Poll
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6276729
Snip:A new poll released by Quinnipiac University on 24 September has revealed that support for Israel continues to drop significantly across the US.
Only 47 percent of US citizens believe that backing Israel is in Washington’s interest, the poll shows. Forty-one percent believe it is not, and 12 percent did not respond. This marks a drop from December 2023, when Quinnipiac polling showed that respondents supported Israel by a 69–23 margin.
The poll also found that 49 percent of US voters have a negative view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Only 21 percent hold positive views on the premier.
It also found that 56 percent of US voters disapprove of US President Donald Trump’s handling of the Gaza war.
Over 40 percent of US citizens believe backing Israel ‘not in national interest’: Poll
The poll shows that half of US voters have a negative view of Netanyahu, while a majority believe Trump has ‘mishandled’ the situation in Gazathecradle.co
How the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Legitimized Stephen Miller
Miller’s role, The Guardian notes, helps account for the shaky legal justification the administration has provided for the attacks: The Trump administration claims the president was using his authority under Article II of the Constitution, based on the notion that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a foreign terrorist organization. This recalls Miller’s repeated assertions that TdA is “running Venezuela” in his argument for deporting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
The revelation about Miller’s role also recalls reports that he mused about bombing unarmed immigrants in boats as an adviser in the first Trump administration.
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in Trump’s first term and became a vocal critic of the president, recounted an exchange between Miller and the then-commandant of the Coast Guard—which Miller vehemently denies—in his book Blowback.
How the Supreme Court Gave Cover to Stephen Miller’s Racist Agenda
The high court basically provided conservatives the template for the war on DEI.Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
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50 years on, has China left Europe behind in the race for a hi-tech future?
50 years on, has China left Europe behind in the race for a hi-tech future?
Chinese firms have caught up with and in some cases overtaken their European rivals, putting the EU on the defensive.Meredith Chen (South China Morning Post)
HarmonyOS 5 Devices Surpass 20 Million Units - Voila!News
September 29, 2025 – Huawei Executive Director and Head of the Terminal Business Group, Richard Yu (Yu Chengdong), officially announced today that the number of devices running HarmonyOS 5 has exceeded 20 million units.Richard YANG (Voila!News)
20M units in China is too small to count as a rounding error.
When one Chinese phone company hired an American CEO he talked in interviews about how experimentally selling 50M units of a test prototype suggested it might have potential.
In 10 months though and practically limited to the Chinese market? I think it is still an impressive figure.
The first device to feature HarmonyOS NEXT at sale was the Huawei Mate 70, which went on sale in China in November 2024.
Compare that with both Android and the iPhone which had global availability and took until 2010 to reach the same milestone.
China deployed alternatives to everything.
Alternatives to Nvidia AI chips, Volkswagen cars, TSMC chip foundries,
ASML lithography machines, ChatGPT AI software, F22 fighter jets.
And China has superior class solar panels, wind turbines, electric grids and batteries.
The EU has lithography machines that's dependent on the US
and electric cars that are inferior to Tesla and those are their crown jewels.
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Brazilians’ negative views of US double, China sees sharp rise in positives: poll
Brazilians’ negative views of US double, China sees sharp rise in positives: poll
Shift follows US President Donald Trump raising tariffs on Brazilian exports and tightening visa rules.Igor Patrick (South China Morning Post)
Germany’s Pistorius pours cold water on drone wall concept
Germany’s Pistorius pours cold water on drone wall concept
Repeated Russian incursions are increasing pressure on the EU and NATO to respond.Laura Kayali (POLITICO)
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in reply to dan69 • • •frongt
in reply to hexagonwin • • •Well that's not strictly true. If you run Windows, you already have a root certificate installed on your computer from the government of Saudi Arabia (sha1 fingerprint 8351509B7DF8CFE87BAE62AEB9B03A52F4E62C79).
The purposes don't include code signing, so they probably can't use it directly for malware. But it includes server identification, so they could possibly intercept your traffic and resume https with their own cert (which hopefully your browser would flag, but isn't guaranteed). That would allow them to serve malware.
An easy way to get access to your traffic is bgp hijacking: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hija…
attack on Internet routing infrastructure
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)interdimensionalmeme
in reply to dan69 • • •Well, it's a driver and it runs in the kernel with system level privileges. I imagine as long as it remains installed the computer will be vulnerable to whatever is in there. And it's undecypherable compiled code so we can't tell what it is doing. I suspect shady bits will use the TPM cryptoprocessor to hide any malicious code so we'll never know what is in there.
Even if you uninstall it, it just says it is uninstalled but it's not like you can verify if it really uninstalled it or just renamed the files to something innocuous.
I will re-install windows entirely as if it had been infected by malware, and I just hope there's a way in Steam to identify all EA games and block them from every installing even by accident
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Unknown parent • • •Cosmoooooooo
Unknown parent • • •It means all EA games going forward will be hostile nazi spyware. They can drop illegal documents on your computer remotely. Take all your information, and sell it off quick on the cheap... to other nazis.
Nazis like this destroy everything they touch. EA wasn't great, and was getting worse, but never deserves to be turned into nazi spyware - especially to anyone (not necessarily stupid, but probably) that enjoys sports (and their dumbass kids).
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •The removal might be duplicate post or original title related? I see this another post in the community with the same article here:
lemmy.ml/post/36868753
If you check the web UI, the cross post section should have links to those other posts.
As for the title rule, I'm not a mod there but we have a similar rule in !canada@lemmy.ca. What I've recommended to people is to keep the original title and then add extra context in the post body. The exception being when people add updates or fix clickbait with some indication that the title was modified. Or alternatively, make a text post where it's clear that you wrote the title, and add the link(s) as supporting evidence in the post body.
Even if your custom title is correct, the rule is needed since it gets difficult for mods to weigh in on every post and decide on what's correct and what's misleading/disinformation
interdimensionalmeme
in reply to Otter • • •No, that post you mention, was posted 2 hours ago
my post lemmy.ml/post/36863093/2136145…
Was posted 5 hours ago and came first
Certainly, the true reason of the deletion is that my title was too evocative of the underlying consequences of this purchase.
Rather than the establishment-spun neutral titled crafted my the mind washing specialists at the pseudo-journalistic outfit of "apnews"
Who did not seek to cause trouble for shareholders.
I'm sure if pushed the moderators would have rules-based legalese with completely above board reasonnable reasons for the deletion of my post, it's not even worth asking what they were. they even have catch-all overbroad rules for this exact purpose anyway. We live under the constant crush of censorship even in these nominally decentralized spaces.
A great fire is well over due.
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Or, ya know.. Its rule 4 of the community that "post title must match article title".
Very common rule on news communities to prevent people adding heavily editorialised statements that have no mention in the article they're sharing. You're welcome to add your editorialising in the post subtitle/text as far as I've seen. Pretty simple.
I agree with your take on the original news article, fwiw - it's a fair concern. But communities have posting rules and you broke them.
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in reply to pulsewidth • • •Well the original title is "Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion"
Which only points to "wow this is large exchange of capital"
And the text of the article is just investor-centric propaganda like
"PIF, which was currently the largest insider stakeholder in Electronic Arts, will be rolling over its existing 9.9% investment in the company. "
or meaningless puff like
"The IPO came seven years after EA was founded by former Apple employee William “Trip” Hawkins, who began playing analog versions of baseball and football made by “Strat-O-Matic” as a teenager during the 1960s"
Ultimately concluding with
"By going private, EA will be able to retool operations without worrying about market reactions."
"Hickey is unsure if the transaction is in shareholders’ best interest."
“The financial backing and resources of the investor consortium should enable EA to increase its focus on long-term growth opportunities that may have been viewed as too risky or expensive as a public company,”
In other words no mention whatsoever of the ethical, cultural consideration nor even touching of the largest stakeholders in the transaction, the IP License Holders and their interest in allowing a foreign enemy nation administrative access to their computer kernel beyond their own user privileges.
This is nothing less than dereliction of duty by this "apnews" company, obviously misdirecting the attention of the reader and quieting their non-sense inapplicable fears such as return on investment levels for the C-Suite and the interest of "Freedom Capital Markets".
These rootless bugpersons are colonizing our attention, spamming their virulent thoughts to distracts us from real, imminent dangers while our hostile leaders are selling us out to the highest bidder, instead of being lined up against a brick wall next to a deep communal ditch.
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •I was going to proudly mention we don't have any EA titles on our families steam libraries, thinking of their biggest names.
But then I found some abandonware like title in one of my kids libraries. So now I need to do more digging (oops, found more). Ofcourse all our machines run Linux (do I need to mention the distro? I feel I do but you can probably guess) so kernel mode access isn't likely. But I think I need to pay more attention to sandboxing and isolating games.
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in reply to shirro • • •shirro
in reply to jaybone • • •I shouldn't call it abandonware. First thing I found was Plants vs Zombies came up under EA in one of my kids libraries - sort of thing that runs well on his under powered school laptop. Think I mixed it up with Bad Piggies and all those old Rovio mobile games that basically got abandoned as publishers moved to adware and pay to win crap.
When I think of EA titles I think of Sims and sports and battlefield - which we don't really play. I found It Takes Two and a few really old titles like Mirrors's Edge that nobody plays and I don't think are installed anywhere. Wasn't sure about their relationship with Crytek. Not going to go too crazy removing stuff but its a good reminder to have a think about game sandboxing.
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in reply to TankovayaDiviziya • • •Will you do retain this attitude when all of culture has been put behind the dignity-wall and requires a neuralink brainchip for digital rights management purposes ?
What will you do when the last DRM unencumbered piece of entertainment is playing with a bunch of rocks and sticks ?
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in reply to Harvey656 • • •500 years into the future the only thing we'll be playing is offline games from 1984-2014
What a sad ending for humans !
pressanykeynow
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •interdimensionalmeme
in reply to pressanykeynow • • •How can normies be expected to know without strong labelling laws or whatever it takes for distributors to actually provide informed consent about their silly little game rootkitting your private computer space ?
Harvey656
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •I don't play EA games it's being years. My Steam profile description is "#NoEAGames #NoUbisoftGames".
There's even some really good old games from EA but I just don't play it, and that's it.
Meruten
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •تحريرها كلها ممكن
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •EA makes third-rate games. Why couldn't the Saudi PIF invest in Square Enix or Sega or Koei Tecmo?
Is this for real? I don't think EA was purchased for the kernel-anticheat. There are Israeli companies that make spyware, Jared Kushner wouldn't need EA for that.
Don_alForno
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Samsuma
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •It's not hard to see why the post was deleted on the other comm, the mods there take editorializing very seriously, you especially crossed that line with the FUD headline and post.
This isn't in defense of EA, and I'm aware of their anti-cheats and many like it having kernel-level access, but how do you know this? Where is this coming from? How will it be magically installed once the deal is closed? When will it be installed? Who's to say it hasn't been "installed" already, years long before any of this deal thing came up? Would you have come up with that conclusion if Saudi Arabia's PIF wasn't part of the deal/mentioned in the article? Does this apply to every single EA game from their catalogue (IIRC some games aren't locked-in to the Origin client)?
If these questions are difficult to answer, then there's your problem.
interdimensionalmeme
in reply to Samsuma • • •Assuming default settings, the EA App runs a background service with elevated privileges (often as TrustedInstaller on Windows), and automatic updates are enabled by default. That means:
So, once the acquisition closes, any architectural changes to anti-cheat or telemetry mechanisms can be deployed silently as part of routine patching cycles. This does not require a new game release or user intervention.
This is a fair assumption under standard security threat modeling practices.
Security best practices assume that any installed kernel-level driver is capable of full system access, including:
- Reading any file or memory region
- Installing persistence mechanisms
- Monitoring user input
- Communicating externally, including via encrypted channels
So yes, if you’ve installed a modern EA game, the capability is already there. The only real change under a new ownership model is intent.
The kernel-level threat model doesn’t change based on ownership, the capabilities remain the same. But the motivations and likely use cases absolutely do.
It is a factual and well-documented reality that Saudi Arabia is:
- An authoritarian regime with little tolerance for dissent
- Known for surveillance and digital repression (including use of spyware such as Pegasus)
- Responsible for state violence, including the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
- Building a significant intelligence and cyber operations apparatus under the guise of technological investment
In that context, PIF’s ownership of a widely installed, privileged software platform, with millions of endpoints and baked-in telemetry infrastructure, is not just theoretical risk, it’s an active national security concern.
It’s reasonable to assume that whatever institutional restraint EA may have had about using anti-cheat for more than gameplay integrity may now be loosened, or removed entirely.
EA claims that kernel-level anti-cheat is used "selectively", primarily in high-profile online multiplayer titles. However:
- There is no centralized or transparent disclosure list showing which games install kernel drivers.
- The EA App and installers do not consistently warn users at install time that a kernel-level driver will be added to their system.
- Detection is only possible after installation, by manually inspecting the installed drivers or using tools like Autoruns, Process Hacker, or Sigcheck.
So while it’s technically true that not all EA games use kernel anti-cheat, the lack of disclosure and difficulty in verifying makes it functionally impossible for the average user to know which games are safe, especially given the bundled update system that can install new software silently at any time.
Games purchased outside the EA App (e.g., on Steam or Epic) often still require the EA launcher to run, meaning kernel drivers can still be deployed through those channels.
dev_null
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Hadriscus
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in reply to Hadriscus • • •It's AI, the tell tale sign is the use of bullet points.
That doesn't give /u/dev_null any credibility but they like to be a good little boy that yaps at clouds, cars and AI.
In this case user /u/Samsuma was unsatisfied with my regular meandering writing style so I reformatted my points into a more semantically coherent package to undermine any possible pedants to come in and complain about misplaced commas and semi-colons and start legislating what the meaning of "is" is.
I'm quite confident the logic here in unassailable, and that's why /u/dev_null didn't have anything to say but complain about the formatting while being unable to address the substance of my comment.
And nobody can "tell" AI text. You can make it adopt any writing style, the only thing people like /u/dev_null have to go on is em dashes, bullet points and "purple" turn of phrases, which, if I'd really care to get these synthophobes off the scent, I would have, but I was more concerned about giving /u/Samsuma the tightest response I could without spending too long on it.
Because of people /u/dev_null just prowling the internet, I do recommend any AI user simply not disclose AI use, gaslight synthophobes into thinking AI text is not AI, inserting em dashes and bullet points into non-AI text and generally being hostile to people like that because they're really insufferable.
The reason I'm telling you all this is so that /u/dev_null knows they can duck off and the more they try to bully me the more undetectable I'm going to make it, there's really not going to be any winner for anyone trying to antagonize me.
kbobabob
in reply to dev_null • • •interdimensionalmeme
in reply to dev_null • • •Samsuma
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Personally, I would've preferred you responded with xenophobic slurs targeted at Arabs like me than with whatever LLM answer this is supposed to be, but you do you I guess. I would've almost taken you seriously... almost.
So here, let me throw a random ass quote at you:
NutWrench
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Giving up things that hurt you shouldn't be hard, when there are far better alternatives to Windows and EA.