AI answers Microsoft licensing questions, helps you choose
AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing
Interview: Thankfully, Onyx's model also knows when to defer to a human for adviceRichard Speed (The Register)
Colliri anti-presbiopia: quali sono e come funzionano?
Colliri anti-presbiopia: quali sono e come funzionano?
La FDA ha approvato colliri innovativi contro la presbiopia a base di aceclidina e pilocarpina. In Europa non sono ancora autorizzati: ecco come funzionano e i risultati degli studi.www.my-personaltrainer.it
UK Labour Party members vote to recognise Gaza genocide at conference
UK Labour Party members vote to recognise Gaza genocide at conference
The move adds pressure on the UK government, led by Keir Starmer, which has been slammed over its stance on Gaza war.Caolán Magee (Al Jazeera)
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Unikaj retaj kursoj sur universitata nivelo
La hispana universitato UNED estas la sola eŭropa distanca universitato, kiu proponas kursojn de Esperanto samnivele kiel kursojn de la angla kaj aliaj grandaj naciaj lingvoj. Ekzamenoj okazas ĉeeste, sekvante la Komunan Eŭropan Referenc-Kadron por Lingvoj. Tion ebligas interkonsento inter UNED kaj Hispana Esperanto-Federacio. La kursojn povas partopreni ĉiuj, kiuj pretas pagi la kotizon. Kompreno de la hispana estas nepra en la unua kurso, konsilinda en la dua, nenecesa en la tria.
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Recommendations for audio production software?
I have literally zero experience with creating audio, but I want to try something new for me.
I know most people who are "properly" into music production are just using a Mac, because it just works and where a lot of the software is available.
Thing is, I have zero expectations.
I don't need a lot of features, plug-ins, and whatever. Most stuff will probably just be fine for me.
Heck, I don't even know what I need in the first place to get a full "stack" of audio production software.
For the start, I'd prefer something simple.
Mostly just something where I can arrange a few recorded audio tracks onto each other and maybe edit them a bit.
Something where I can record the tracks with my microphone (and some time later maybe an input device like a piano keyboard, e-guitar, etc.) and listen them at the same time, preferably in the same program.
What are your experiences with making music on Linux?
What software would you recommend?
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Chat Control is back & we've got only a few weeks to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.
The Dastardly Danes and Ursula are at it again.
Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. | Tuta
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!Tuta
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And there it is, an oppressive weapon camouflaged as a nicely packaged present. What I seem to realise is our "dependancy" on the governments perspective - it's like they already speak the ultimate truth, testing the limits of what is democracy.
Is it really right to be weaponising children and minors into essentially constructing a totalitarian regime? Because, in my perspective they are using our young people as human shields to justify their hideous acts against humanity.
It is best not to forget who's the actual enemy. Because, in the future no one will be safe - no matter the age.
Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released!
We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the fourth experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.93.0. 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 the preferred method as there is no easy way to uninstall.
About
Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, 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 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.
There's a number of things that unfortunately went unfinished for this release so you may notice more bugs than previous experimental releases. But like usual, there's still been plenty of progress for everyone to check out!
Looking forward, Experimental 5 is scheduled for 2025-12-31 and will have a version number of 2.94.0.
We have a bunch of tickets entered for Experimental 5, and you can keep an eye on the Burndown Chart for Experimental 5 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.
If you would like monthly updates, be sure to check out the #state-of-the-bird posts!
Highlights
We have a bunch of highlights this release, but some are hard to show in text, but we'll do our best!
Developer Migration Guide
We have started the huge task of describing how to migrate code from Purple 2 to Purple 3. That document is available at docs.imfreedom.org/purple3/migrating.html.
This is for migration only. We're still looking at doing some sort of compatibility layer, but we don't want to put a lot of time into that until we're much more confident in the APIs not changing. We are also looking to do an architecture document as well that will explain some of the finer details of the APIs.
Backends
Many of our data sources need to be persisted when the program isn't running. We've done this a number of ways over the years, but in this release we have created a new pattern of using backends to abstract this out.
For example, a user interface can tell Purple.ConversationManager to not persist conversations or to persist them in a SQLite database using Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend. Many more of these will be popping up in the future for the other managers.
Conversation Persistence
As mentioned above Purple now keeps track of your open conversations assuming the conversation manager was told to use a backend that persists data which Pidgin does by default.
This means you no longer have to add a channel to your contact list and tell it to auto join, it will just automatically happen for all conversations (dms, group dms, channel, etc) that were still open when you closed the program which matches the behavior of many modern clients.
New Application Icon
The one and only Hykle Bons has come out of retirement to create a new application icon for Pidgin 3 which you can see below. If you have any comments regarding it, there is a post for that over here.
Color Scheme Preference
You can finally chose to have Pidgin follow the system theme or force it into light or dark mode!
ChangeLog
General:
- Update to Ibis 0.14.0 (RR 4043) (Gary Kramlich)
- Tell meson about our license (RR 4045) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add a test to make sure the flatpak dependencies have been updated (RR 4044) (Gary Kramlich)
- Only add the flatpak dependencies test when compiling for linux (RR 4049) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix some Since tags (RR 4059) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
- Deprecate ChangeLog.API (RR 4128) (Gary Kramlich)
- Port the protocols to the birb string functions (RR 4139) (Gary Kramlich)
- Ignore the meson subproject .wraplock file (RR 4145) (Gary Kramlich)
- Stop setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in devenv (RR 4170) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
macOS:
- Fix some issues with the macOS native files (RR 4165) (Gary Kramlich)
- Hide duplicate menu items (RR 4166) (Gary Kramlich)
libpurple:
- Serialize conversations and their tags (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4048) (Gary Kramlich)
- Load conversations back in from the database (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4051) (Gary Kramlich)
- Replace PurplePlugin by GPluginPlugin (RR 4063) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
- Add Purple.ConversationManager.get_all_for_account (RR 4065) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove a bunch of unused and unnecessary preferences code (RR 4066) (Gary Kramlich)
- Delete conversations from the database when the user leaves them (RR 4064) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.ScheduleTask (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4072) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.Scheduler (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4073) (Gary Kramlich)
- Tell gir to ignore the Purple.Request functions that aren't bindable (RR 4076) (Gary Kramlich)
- Delete the purple_gdk_pixbuf api (RR 4075) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove searching from Purple.ProtocolContacts (RR 4078) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove Purple.CircularBuffer (RR 4083) (Gary Kramlich)
- Clean up and modernize PurpleImage (RR 4074) (Gary Kramlich)
- Replace Purple.Avatar with Purple.Image (RR 4084) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add an avatar-for-display property to Purple.ContactInfo (RR 4086) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix some broken logic in Purple.Conversation.send_message_async (RR 4095) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix the birb header path (RR 4097) (Gong Zhile)
- Add builtin library dependency for introspection (RR 4098) (Gong Zhile)
- Create Purple.Contacts (PIDGIN-18106) (RR 4077) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.ProtocolDirectory (PIDGIN-18108) (RR 4079) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.ConversationMembers.find_first_other (RR 4087) (Gary Kramlich)
- Move Purple.Conversation.find_or_add_member to Purple.ConversationMembers (RR 4100) (Gong Zhile)
- Convert Purple.Tags to a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18002) (RR 4088) (Gary Kramlich)
- Some tweaks for Purple.ConversationMember and Purple.ConversationMember (RR 4102) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix up the account manager (RR 4090) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add default handlers to Purple.Account to manage the online state of conversations (RR 4092) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add a Purple.ContactInfo:badges property (PIDGIN-18114) (RR 4103) (Gary Kramlich)
- Many updates for Purple.ProtocolContacts (PIDGIN-18112 PIDGIN-18115 PIDGIN-18116) (RR 4105) (Gary Kramlich)
- Clean up some stuff in Purple.Protocol (RR 4109) (Gary Kramlich)
- Check for the MESON_TEST_ITERATION envvar before adding our default plugin paths (PIDGIN-18121) (RR 4115) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add vfuncs to Purple.Protocol for setting display names (PIDGIN-18117) (RR 4107) (Gary Kramlich)
- A Bunch of cleanups for the credential manager (RR 4116) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix some minor issues in protocol directory (RR 4122) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.Conversation::displayed (RR 4093) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add an id property to Purple.Command (PIDGIN-18118) (RR 4106) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove all of the proxy code (RR 4120) (Gary Kramlich)
- Move the saved-plugins preference to GSettings (RR 4121) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove the preferences API (RR 4123) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove Purple.AccountManager.foreach (RR 4124) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add a unit test for Purple.CommandManager.get_commands_for_conversation (PIDGIN-18119) (RR 4108) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove Purple.ContactInfo:username (RR 4114) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4125) (Gary Kramlich)
- A bunch of random cleanups for Purple.Ui (RR 4126) (Gary Kramlich)
- Rename Attachment:inline to Attachment:is-inline to fix some compiler errors on Windows (RR 4131) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.Account.disconnect_with_new_error (RR 4133) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create a Noop AccountManagerBackend (RR 4134) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update Purple.AccountManager to use Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4135) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.SchedulerBackend (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4127) (Gary Kramlich)
- Port libpurple to the birb string functions (RR 4140) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove some unused utility functions (RR 4142) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove the network API (RR 4141) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.AccountSetting (RR 4143) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove the private PurpleAccountSetting type (RR 4144) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4146) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.Protocol.get_default_account_settings (RR 4147) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.AccountSettingStringList (RR 4153) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update the default account settings handler to include user splits (RR 4154) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Purple.Account:disconnected to complement Purple.Account:connected (RR 4157) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix settings initialization in network prefs (RR 4161) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
- A first pass at documenting how to migrate from purple 2 (RR 4155) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove the last remnants of GdkPixbuf (RR 4169) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add remove all and update methods to Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4159) (Gary Kramlich)
- Make sure accounts have names when saving and loading (RR 4171) (Gary Kramlich)
- Ignore a libxml deprecation (RR 4177) (Gary Kramlich)
- Replace the debug subsystem with macros to the glib counter parts (RR 4178) (Gary Kramlich)
- Clean up the plugins API (RR 4179) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update libpurple to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4174) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove the History API (RR 4176) (Gary Kramlich)
- A few cleanups in the account api (RR 4182) (Gary Kramlich)
- Rename Purple.AccountManager.get_connected to get_connected_accounts and return a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18120) (RR 4183) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
- Add implements functions to Purple.ProtocolFileTransfer (RR 4180) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (PIDGIN-18128) (RR 4184) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update Purple.ConversationManager to use a Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (RR 4185) (Gary Kramlich)
- Create Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend (RR 4189) (Gary Kramlich)
Pidgin:
- Re-enable links in Pidgin.Message (RR 4047) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update Pidgin.DisplayWindow to load existing conversations (RR 4050) (Gary Kramlich)
- Move the input box to a GtkSourceView (RR 4071) (Gary Kramlich)
- Use the presence message of a contact for the subtitle of DM's (RR 4081) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update Pidgin.InfoPane a bit and expose the avatar (RR 4085) (Gary Kramlich)
- Don't show the presence icon in messages (RR 4089) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove the toplevel plugins menu (RR 4113) (Gary Kramlich)
- Use the account's username in Pidgin.AccountDisplay (RR 4112) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add Pidgin.Application:can-join-channel and bind actions to it (PIDGIN-18122) (RR 4110) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update pidgin to use the birb string functions (RR 4138) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add a Pidgin.Badges widget to contacts in the contact list (RR 4136) (Gary Kramlich)
- Import our new application icon from the one and only Hylke Bons (RR 4137) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix parenting of Account Manager window on initial startup (RR 4162) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
- Remove the old broadway backed tests (RR 4167) (Gary Kramlich)
- Remove pidginprivate.h (RR 4168) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add a dark/light color scheme setting (PIDGIN-18085) (RR 4163) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
- Add the account name to the account editor (RR 4172) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update Pidgin.AccountDisplay to use the Purple.Account:name property (RR 4173) (Gary Kramlich)
- Update pidgin to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4175) (Gary Kramlich)
- Don't tell gtk to register the application with the session manager (RR 4187) (Gary Kramlich)
Demo:
- Mark messages sent in the demo protocol as delivered (RR 4094) (Gary Kramlich)
- Port the demo protocol to ProtocolDirectory (RR 4080) (Gary Kramlich)
- Make the demo protocol plugin use the active presence (RR 4091) (Gary Kramlich)
- Add an external contact ot the Demo protocol (PIDGIN-18101) (RR 4101) (Gary Kramlich)
IRCv3:
- Implement the /me command (RR 4070) (Gary Kramlich)
- Fix an issue where the status messages weren't being written (RR 4111) (Gary Kramlich)
- Port IRCv3 to the new account settings (RR 4156) (Gary Kramlich)
- Only send WHO on our own joins (RR 3986) (Gary Kramlich)
SIP:
- Remove sofia as a dependency as we're not going to use it (RR 4046) (Gary Kramlich)
- Silence a warning in the sip protocol skeleton (RR 4082) (Gary Kramlich)
KWallet:
- Remove moc file generation for kwallet plugin (RR 4186) (Markus Fischer)
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!
And if you’re feeling generous, you can learn how to donate to the project on our Donation Page.
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Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection
Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection
Trump official plots “impossible” deal moving Taiwan’s chip supply chain into US.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance
A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.
Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* ghostarchive.org
merriam-webster.com/dictionary…
prof·i·teer·ing ˌprä-fə-ˈtir-iŋ
the act or activity of making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency
(which is normal and desirable in capitalist free market systems)
Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs war fear
Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs echoes of Iran strike ahead of secret military meeting
As President Trump prepares to meet generals and admirals at a shadowy meeting tomorrow, verified X accounts are reporting deployment of US air tankers to Europe, citing flight tracking data.Elina Shirazi (Daily Mail)
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Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review
Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review - Inside Climate News
Plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government in 2015 for promoting fossil fuel policies and failing to protect them from climate change have petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for an investigation and remedies.Inside Climate News
Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.
According to Steve Simpson, a professor of marine biology at the University of Bristol, “climate change is a likely driver” of the population boom. “We are right on the northern limit of the octopus species range, but our waters are getting warmer, so our little island of Great Britain is becoming increasingly favorable for octopus populations,” he said.
Plural of Octopus: Octopi vs. Octopuses vs. Octopodes
Which is correct? We'll get into it.Editors of Merriam-Webster (Merriam-Webster)
Fry's Electronics Linux PC from 2005 - GQ3131 with Linspire
i used to have one of these and it was the first time i went with linux fulltime.
i was an employee of fry's electronics so i got a discount with it as well. lol
EDIT: mine didn't come with speakers, but that keyboard made me feel nostalgic. and speaking of penny pinching: fry's never updated their sales/inventory system past msdos 6.22
Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout
Trump's Department of Energy announced it is investing $625 million in the coal industry, sparking backlash from climate advocates.
Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout
One campaigner called it "nothing more than a wealth transfer from the American people to Trump's billionaire friends sitting atop a failing industry."jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Ex-Republican South Carolina House member admits to distributing hundreds of child sex abuse videos
Former Republican South Carolina Rep. RJ May has admitted in court to sending hundreds of videos of children being sexually abused across the country via social media
Imgur is now geoblocking the UK
This includes the ability to see images embedded into other sites.
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I have no idea, but it was one of a few forums that reported it first before news sites even were aware of it. I posted follow-up here lemmy.zip/post/49951704
Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use
Imgur is one of the world's largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.
Follow up to: lemmy.zip/post/49898832
Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia
In a country haunted by Soviet memory and threatened by Russian influence, ordinary voters chose the path toward Europe.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivindepend…
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.
Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia
CHIȘINĂU, Moldova — Moldova's ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has secured just over 50% of the vote, or 55 out of 101 parliament seats, keeping the country on a European path.Paula Erizanu (The Kyiv Independent)
China sentences former agricultural minister to death
China sentences former agricultural minister to death
China's former minister for agriculture has been sentenced to death on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said.RTÉ News (RTÉ)
[Opinion] A window to a future where China wins the green race
The US might seek to focus on domestic alternatives to Chinese products. For the rest of the world, partnering with the one country that controls the world’s clean-energy supply chains is hardly a choice.
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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
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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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.
The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.
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.
How will it be installed once the deal closes?
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:
- No user action is required for software updates, including those that install kernel-mode drivers.
- Kernel-level components can be silently updated or extended through routine game patches or EA App updates.
- Any newly introduced or modified driver (e.g., an anti-cheat update) would be signed by EA, but users are not alerted to the depth of the update unless they manually inspect it, which is virtually impossible given the encrypted/proprietary nature of the codebase.
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.
Has it already been installed?
This is a fair assumption under standard security threat modeling practices.
- EA has already shipped kernel-level drivers (e.g., EAAntiCheat.sys) since 2023, and these are typically installed alongside online multiplayer titles such as EA Sports FC and Battlefield 2042.
- These drivers run with the highest system-level privileges, and the EA App has full access to update them.
- The compiled binaries are not open-source, not auditable, and may include encrypted segments or obfuscated logic, meaning users and third parties have no reliable way to verify what the software is actually doing.
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.
Could this be a concern if the acquirer wasn’t Saudi Arabia’s PIF?
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.
Does this apply to all EA games? Is it properly disclosed?
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.
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.
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:
And so, indeed, is the Orientalist attitude in general [referring to a quote by shitlib Isaiah Berlin]. It shares with magic and with mythology the self-containing, self-reinforcing character of a closed system, in which objects are what they are because they are what they are, for once, for all time, for ontological reasons that no empirical material can either dislodge or alter. The European encounter with the Orient, and specifically with Islam, strengthened this system of representing the Orient and, as has been suggested by Henri Pirenne, turned Islam into the very epitome of an outsider against which the whole of European civilization from the Middle Ages on was founded. The decline of the Roman Empire as a result of the barbarian invasions had the paradoxical effect of incorporating barbarian ways into Roman and Mediterranean culture, Romania; whereas, Pirenne argues, the consequence of the Islamic invasions beginning in the seventh century was to move the center of European culture away from the Mediterranean, which was then an Arab province, and towards the North.
- Edward W. Said, Orientalism (1978)
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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.~~
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North Korea to further strengthen ties with China, foreign minister says
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Sheinbaum announces expanded seed bank protection for Mexican corn
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in reply to informapirata ⁂ • • •Fabrizio
in reply to suoko • • •c'è una differenza abissale, gli occhiali smart sono un giocattolo, può essere classificato come dispositivo medico alla pari di una qualsiasi montatura.
Un farmaco per l'approvazione ha necessità di seguire un complesso iter regolatorio. Il fatto che sia già in fase di approvazione della FDA aiuta a velocizzare le cose ma ci vuole tempo.
We don't need AI. AI needs us.
in reply to Fabrizio • • •Questi ultimi creano un problema di privacy per chiunque venga osservato al contrario delle gocce.
@Suoko @informapirata
suoko
Unknown parent • • •Io sinceramente non trovo molto naturale un mini schermo a pochi cm dagli occhi, un po' come i visori, un led sparato a quella distanza nell'occhio mi farebbe un po' paura usato a lungo.
Finché usi un visore per poco tempo per una simulazione o un training immersivo ancora ancora...
suoko
Unknown parent • • •Nel tuo caso meglio provare i prossimi occhiali neuralink allora