Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped
..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...
Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped
Microsoft’s October 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 183 flaws, including three exploited zero-days and two 9.9 CVSS bugs.The Hacker News
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After Israeli Withdrawal, Hamas Launches Violent Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza
After Israeli Withdrawal, Hamas Launches Violent Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza — The Wall Street Journal
Firefights and public executions raise concerns about spiral of internecine violence; ‘I could hear gunfire all around’apple.news
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How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A new firm called Show Faith by Works has launched a geofencing campaign targeting Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-"Israel" advertisements, a covert operation exposed in a striking investigation by Nick Cleveland-Stout, a Research Associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, and published by Responsible Statecraft.
The operation appears to be conducted without the awareness or consent of many pastors and congregations, some of whom have expressed alarm over the use of such invasive digital targeting by "Israel".
According to the company’s filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the project aims to “geofence the actual boundaries of every Major (sic) church in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Coloardo (sic) and all Christian Colleges during worship times,” allowing the firm to “track attendees and continue to target [them] with ads” on behalf of "Israel".
How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A pro-"Israel" firm secretly tracked worshippers across US churches and colleges using geofencing technology as part of a $3.2 million propaganda drive.Al Mayadeen English (How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda)
How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A new firm called Show Faith by Works has launched a geofencing campaign targeting Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-"Israel" advertisements, a covert operation exposed in a striking investigation by Nick Cleveland-Stout, a Research Associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, and published by Responsible Statecraft.
The operation appears to be conducted without the awareness or consent of many pastors and congregations, some of whom have expressed alarm over the use of such invasive digital targeting by "Israel".
According to the company’s filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the project aims to “geofence the actual boundaries of every Major (sic) church in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Coloardo (sic) and all Christian Colleges during worship times,” allowing the firm to “track attendees and continue to target [them] with ads” on behalf of "Israel".
How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A pro-"Israel" firm secretly tracked worshippers across US churches and colleges using geofencing technology as part of a $3.2 million propaganda drive.Al Mayadeen English (How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda)
Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now
Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now
The Trump administration warned it would use the shutdown to shed federal jobs. President Trump said that the cuts were aimed at "Democrat agencies."Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Which Linux distro would you say that fits me best? Do you think the LLM got it right?
distrochooser.de/en/d5ed36c131…
- You want something that just works out of the box.
- Your focus is everyday tasks with some programming.
- You prefer cutting-edge software, but the system itself can be stable.
- You want a graphical installer and easy GUI management.
- You like Cinnamon for a Windows-like UI.
- You’re okay with either pre-installed software or minimal install.
- You don’t mind if the distro itself has a smaller community as long as the parent distro is well-supported.
Distrochooser
The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!distrochooser.de
I don't get it either. I mean the distro at the end of the day really doesn't matter. like ok, which way do you want to type a line in a terminal to download something. you want Debian, Arch, Fedora, Nix or Gentoo.
People always suggest Mint and I don't get why. I mean I could have Cagebreak or Herbstluftwm on Mint...is it still new user friendly? no? then it's not the Distro it's the DE.
Throw Cinnamon or KDE Plasma on Arch with a Distro Manager GUI, boom now that's new user friendly.
It's the DE that's important, the Distro is whatever.
People suggest Mint because it's a solid, easy-to-use installer, is based on a stable distribution, and requires no fiddling wiþ etc files to get up and running. It's þe no-brainer of Linux distributions.
Maybe þere are oþers, but none are so widely known to be plug-&-play as Mint, because þat "new user" experience is what þe project focuses on.
Just cuz KDE works well on one distro, doesn't mean it works well on others (idk why it's weird like that). Another thing is that sometimes it's nice when everything is setup out of the box with no need to configure anything except theme and wallpaper.
I get most Linux users like to rice the crap out of there systems, but sometimes you just need to get work down and don't have time for that.
Also also, there are times software maintainers don't always release versions for your distro and not everyone wants to compile things themselves, or rewrite scripts cuz author only made it with Debian distros in mind, or something.
Throw Cinnamon or KDE Plasma on Arch
Yeah no. I've been on arch for a decade and no way in hell is it user friendly for normal people.
Like for example - Explain to your aunt or uncle how to deal with pacnew files and that you have to do that on a regular basis. They'll look at you like you're some weirdo punching yourself in the genitals.
Most people don't know what a DE is or how to change it and training wheels are best kept on till they get the hang of all the things.
Everyone is different and learning should be in small steps rather than leaps. Always ask yourself, can my mom do this?
It's irrelevant that every distro supports every DE. The out of box experience matters a lot, you don't want to force a beginner straight into the terminal just to get a UI they like.
For recommendations to experienced users, I agree.
Where is the "LLM"? Are you talking about the linked questionnaire? Zero mention of LLM.
github.com/distrochooser/distr…
SMH these grifters will call any super basic program "AI".
GitHub - distrochooser/distrochooser: An orientation guide for Linux newbies
An orientation guide for Linux newbies. Contribute to distrochooser/distrochooser development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
...The assessment found that PFNA interferes with human development by causing lower birth weights and, based on animal evidence, likely causes damage to the liver and to male reproductive systems, including reductions in testosterone levels, sperm production and the size of reproductive organs...The EPA told ProPublica the report would be published when it was finalized, though the press office did not answer questions about what still needed to be done or when that would likely happen.
But the report’s final version was “completed and ready to post” in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica. And two scientists familiar with the assessment confirmed the report has been finalized and ready for publication since April...
A draft version of the assessment was made public last year and drew objections from an industry trade group. The final version, which retained the calculations published in the draft report, was completed shortly before the EPA announced its intention in May to rescind and reconsider limits on the amount of PFNA and several other forever chemicals allowed in drinking water. The limits had been set last year by President Joe Biden’s administration.
Darya Minovi, a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, pointed to that pending change as a possible motivation for not publishing the PFNA assessment. “If you’re trying to roll back drinking water standards, you probably don’t want to release information that makes the case for why those standards are necessary,” said Minovi...
...“This is the suppression of information,” said Allen, who co-founded the National PFAS Contamination Coalition. “We have the science, and it shouldn’t be obstructed.”...
EPA Report on Dangers of PFNA, a Forever Chemical, Hangs In Limbo
The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.ProPublica
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TIL about this Fediverse software database
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How did you escape your locker, Davy? (ba-dum-bump)
I don't know much about the software side, but I'd venture that (as with some instances) not all of them are necessarily trying to put much energy in to growing their userbases. That is, some might be set up to meet the needs of a smallish group, and might not be particularly interested in outsiders joining. That's just speculation though, purely extrapolated from the fact that some have set up their instances across the "FV" for that kind of purpose.
In other cases, I take it that such services are only federating to a limited portion of the FV, and that may indeed be a problem worth fixing sooner rather than later. For example, the four biggest user-bases by software (M, misskey, nodeBB and sharkey) don't seem to federate well, or at all, to the 'Lemmy' side of the FV. At least IME, and in terms of the network I'm on (PieFed).
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Do they want more visibility?
To me the Fediverse is like email. Some instances want to grow to as many users as possible. Some are just some dude who has his own email server and uses it for himself.
And everything in between
But... There's a difference between instances and platforms. These are platforms.
I mean, your point is still valid, these platforms might not really be interested in gathering more users, but it's not a matter of having a small server you want to keep to yourself. People could host these platforms on their own server, after all.
MAU numbers for Misskey are underreported as many instances report it wrongly as 0.
Mobilizon does not count its instances' MAU. Gancio has got no user accounts - events are published there anonymously and there is only one ActivityPub account to follow, which relays everything from the instance.
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One cannot go past hundreds, maybe few thousands MAU without a significant hype and mainstream attention.
Mastodon was the decentralised social network and main ex-Twitter alternative at the time.
Misskey attracted Japanese artists from a specific theme , exiled by Twitter.
Pixelfed benefitted with Instagram's moderation drama and then with a Streisand effect. Its autor helped it with some marketing but this only helped with the migration wave, not caused it.
Lemmy and /kbin grew on Reddit API debacle.
PeerTube is one of self-hosting video solutions and a P2P video platform and a federated one.
NodeBB and WordPress carried over their legacy user bases.
No other platform has more than several thousands MAU
Kbin the software has died - technically there is still one small instance in Poland that uses it, but all others have ceased, and the software is no longer being maintained under that name - yet the project lives on in its fork Mbin.
Instances that include the kbin word - e.g. kbin.earth - only retain that now as a legacy.
Sadly I don't think anyone has heard from Ernst, the original developer and admin of kbin.social.
App support finally came to Mbin though, see "Interstellar".
A spiritual successor to Kbin's design philosophy that is very much worth checking out is "PieFed", which I am writing to you now using it 😀. Most apps that work with Lemmy also now work with it (except Thunder support still coming "soon~(TM)~" but available only in the beta version for now, not the Play Store one). PieFed is written in Python rather than the obscure Rust language so its pace of development has been extremely rapid in comparison to Lemmy and it now has a feature set well beyond that of either Lemmy or Mbin. If you want to access both the Threadiverse/Lemmy/Mbin communities/magazines as well as Fediverse/Mastodon-style content, Mbin is still your best bet as it was designed for exactly that, but for Threadiverse stuff it offers numerous advantages. Anyway it is so nice to have choices to pick from!😀
Features - PieFed
Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons.PieFed
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I'm a bit worried about Ernest though. Didn't he have a bunch of health issues?
Move over Murdochs, the Ellisons are the new family dynasty shaking up US media
Move over Murdochs, the Ellisons are the new family dynasty shaking up US media
Larry Ellison's relationship with Donald Trump has drawn scrutiny as the tech billionaire and his son strive to become major media moguls.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
To compete with China, the U.S. needs Chinese talent
America can’t win the AI race without Chinese talent - Rest of World
Restrictive visa policies clash with Silicon Valley’s reliance on Chinese researchers, highlighting a critical paradox in America’s AI strategy.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
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Tomahawk missiles for Kiev, Alaska process: key takeaways from Lavrov’s statements
Tomahawk missiles for Kiev, Alaska process: key takeaways from Lavrov’s statements
According to the Russia's top diplomat, the process launched during the Russia-US summit is not yet completeTASS
I have thousands of hours in DF...and I really wish it wasn't a buggy mess.
Marksdwarves not taking arrows? Follow this easy 20 step guide of obtuse mechanics that circumvent what's probably several bugs?
You fixed them taking ammo? Great, good job! Are they using the training room you set up verifiably correctly? No? Well sucks.
There are so many instances of this. Exploding trees killing woodcutters if trees grow into one another. Items left perpetually on the floor that can never be moved again. Military squads never returning from expeditions, forever blocking their noble spots and sometimes making it impossible to refill any positions...endless problems.
A lot of it can be fixed with DFhack but not all of it can. I am happy they are doing fresh content for the game, but I also wish they would take, like, two years to fix all the known bugs that have been in the game for several years. And while the steam version has a better interface then what was there before, it's hardly perfect. It's mostly just a bit more user friendly while being obtuse in new and inventive ways.
Why am I writing all this? Honestly I don't know. I just...the game is uniquely frustrating, but so cool when it does miraculously work.
The game has an end and a reason to stop playing though.
The point of the game is to launch a rocket, you can continue past that if you want.
i mean...not anymore!
space age added tons of content after the rocket launch!
in space age the goal is to travel to the edge of the solar system ;)
That’s an additional paid for expansion, something they originally said they would never do.
It also STILL has an end goal.
I’ve launched a rocket with Angels mods and orhers… I’ve done my fair share haha.
The goal is to cripple your computers UPS at that point, or whatever the term is.
The main Factorio dev is pretty publicly a shithead.
Perhaps even worse: Factorio has never gone on sale. They are very strongly against the idea of sales. Which like... Fine, but game value depreciates so you should at least drop the price over time. Not the case- in fact they INCREASED the price from $30 to $35 in 2023. The game came out in 2020. It's now a 5 year old 2D indie game listed at $35. Can I afford that? Yes. Am I going to buy it? No.
A couple of different controversies. He has posts on Reddit (that have since been deleted, but you can find them archived) talking about how student-teacher sexual relationships can often be consensual.
The more famous controversy is this one. Which is hard to summarize other than him being a general asshole to fans, and while he didn't really say anything too terrible he uses a lot of red-flag language talking about "cancel culture" and "sjw's" which, in my experience, is only used unirlnically by shitty people.
Factorio
Factorio is an open world simulation management and construction video game released in 2020 by Wube Software for PC, Mac, and Linux. It was first released in early access in 2016.Phillip Hamilton (Know Your Meme)
I've seen an online comment somewhere referring to interview of him (it's in Czech, but has English captions). I don't have much interest in watching the full interview myself (though I probably should just to check what I'm talking about). According to this comment I had seen, he explains in this interview that he had that knee-jerk reaction to the pushback to recommending Bob Martin's "Clean Code" book in the public factorio devlog in part because of the political climate he grew up in (Czechoslovakia near the end of the Soviet Union, and then following it's dissolution) which was full of spurious accusations based on tangential links.
Myself, I distinctly remember reading the devblog post when it came out and thinking "oh boy, it's a shame he only learned about Clean Code today and clearly is unaware of Bob Martin's reputation on matters outside of strict software development". His comments in the reddit thread really just made things worse. I'm still hesitant to unequivocally label him as bad as many others, but simultaneously I don't hold much hope that he'll ever come out and publicly denounce his former comments.
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I'm also curious about how game value depreciates.
Games tend to go on sale to sell more copies later in their lifespan, attracting customers that weren't going to pay the original price for it.
It sounds like you're saying that the game can't be played for as long if you buy it later, which doesn't really make sense to me.
I might be a biased, as I'm one of those people with a few thousand hours into Factorio, and several hundred into other factory games.
I interpret their comment slightly differently; Factorio as a game is less valuable today then, say, 4 years ago.
I still disagree with that interpretation, as the game has continued to receive updates and bugfixes, steadily increasing it's value (or at least counteracting the depreciation). Not to mention the additional value provided by community mods has only increased over the years.
The game is also one-of-a-kind. Until a "factorio 2" equivalent comes out that is just straight-up better in every way, it's hard to see how the value would depreciate. Heck, the Space Age DLC is basically "Factorio 2" without splitting the playerbase across 2 separate games.
The game came out in 2020. It’s now a 5 year old 2D indie game listed at $35
... which is still receiving updates well into 2025: wiki.factorio.com/Version_hist… Probably, in part, because they never put the game on sale and so each and every purchase of the game by players contributes equally to the studio's capacity to continue supporting the game.
The game is still actively developed, with the primary focus on bug-fixing. The price is one-time, and there is no intent to sell another expansion, as the game is pretty much at its technical limits as to what you can add to the game with the current expansion.
Also it has a ridiculously good mod repo and management system built into the game.
I wish I liked games like factorio.
I love base building stuff (rimworld is my current obsession, tho I almost like making my heavily modded game function properly more than actually playing it) but automation is just too many moving parts, and too much planing and I can’t bring myself to do any of it right.
If not for that it would probably be entirely my jam. I get downright jealous when I see some of the amazing stuff people do.
Enjoys modding games more than playing, dislikes Factorio.
Have you tried modding Factorio? It’s a pit of fun
Haha, that’s a fair point.
I’d have to actually like the game and have been sucked into it to want to spend days and days finding mods that sound like good additions, or address frustrations with vanilla mechanics, and then bash my head against the wall trying to figure out the error logs and why the map didn’t spawn anything this time (I don’t have a tech background, I learn tech on the fly to do specific things, so troubleshooting is a big challenge). Like I have over a thousand rimworld mods I individually, manually, downloaded (I don’t use steam but I found a site that rips mods from steam). I’m currently running about 650 of them, but I had over 100 hours in before I even looked at mods, and it started with running out of storage and having to dedicate half my map to storage space, because I HOARD STUFF and 3 stacks per tile with vanilla shelves is just not enough space. You never know when you’ll need 167 elephant tusks. Oh they are vendor trash that can be used as a shitty improvised weapon and that’s it? Well I found that out after about a month.
I just know factorio would hit my frustration buttons quicker than my obsession buttons because I can’t even bring myself to do the fairly simple automation in rimworld because it’s too finicky and I have to learn stuff and figure out where to lay pipes and shit, so I’d struggle to hit the “let’s find mods to make this game even more overwhelming” stage.
But now I’m even more jealous, if there’s a vibrant modding community and all..
I distinctly remember seeing sprites about 10 years ago, where the enemies were eco protesters. The biters were protesters with signs, the spitters were protesters with Molotov cocktails, the nests were tent encampments.
I think I did not imagine that and it seems to me that the enemies' mechanics make a lot more sense if they were people protesting.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Was this in the early builds or was that a mod?
P.S: the goal of Factorio is clearly to build a large enough factory to cripple your hardware, then apply the gained skills in a real factory to be able to buy new hardware, then get fired due to your addiction, freeing up time to build further
I've never played the game. Been meaning to for a while but so far have really only heard third-hand accounts of it. From the very little I know though that seems like a real possibility and honestly I prefer that interpretation.
@Jayjader@jlai.lu 's explanation gave me the impression it was nature's way of fighting back against unsustainable practices. Like it lets you play as a bad guy and see the consequences of doing so, rather than pitting you against some diagetic evil and painting everything you do in a morally justified light.
I might have to eat crow on this one though, like I said I don't even have entry level knowledge here.
Seems like the very first, very outdated trailer from 2013 contains some of that - though in the trailer itself it seems more like bio-zombies than eco protesters. The game could only be pre-ordered at this point, though the video's description suggests there was already a demo available. I don't know if the game's lore at this point was already "you play as an engineer that has crash-landed on an alien planet" -- if it wasn't, it wouldn't surprise me that the decision to make that be the lore ended up convincing the dev team to abandon humanoid enemies.
In any case, starting from the following year's (2014) trailer the fauna is already in the form of biters, spawners, and worms.
tagging @causepix@lemmy.ml in case they're interested in this tidbit of history.
The game has long eschewed "good" and "bad"; thematically I'd say it's more of a "water & oil" situation where you, the crash-landed engineer, don't really have a way to both get off the planet and not pollute -- you are of a fundamentally incompatible nature compared to the bugs. I imagine it could be possible to do a play-through that deliberately avoids automation and attempts to launch a rocket with the minimum of pollution emitted, though that's more of a self-imposed challenge to try out when you already "master" the game (it will be long and dull, for the most part). As this analysis puts it, "Factorio is a game about building factories, and only uses environmental devastation as a minor background mechanic." Another analysis comes to more-or-less the same conclusion.
It's worth noting that, as of the Space Age DLC that released almost exactly 1 year ago, things get pushed even further away from morality. On the one hand, the dlc introduces a way to replant trees, including automatically, finally allowing players to get to a point where no blurb of pollution ever extends into the rest of the world/map. On the other hand, to complete the dlc you will need to farm the fauna by literally capturing the spawners and harvesting biter eggs from it. It's a very fun automation and logistics challenge (harvested eggs hatch into aggresive biters if not used in a recipe quick enough, and nutrients for the spawners must be produced off-world and imported via rockets else the spawner reverts back to a "wild" state). Things are even less clearly moralized by the end of the dlc, where you obtain the capability to craft new spawners and plop them down wherever you want. This means you can add to the native fauna, not just take from it. In a sense, you get more agency in how your relationship to the native fauna ends up. The road to that agency, however, remains that of the base game. Neither planting trees nor creating new spawners is available without launching a rocket off-world (in fact, it takes many many rockets to get to this point). As the first analysis I linked so succinctly puts it, "[i]t is manifest destiny that a rocket be launched, so exploitation of the environment is unavoidable and the efforts of the bug race stand in the way of fate." Cynically speaking, the DLC basically just lets you green-wash your dominion of the planet/solar system, after-the-fact.
Ecocritical Analysis of Factorio - The Gemsbok
This article examines the relationship between the player-character and their environment in the automation/management simulator Factorio.Daniel Podgorski (The Gemsbok)
Automation games are usually my jam, but I bounced off Factorio pretty quickly. The automation part I got really into. I wanted to keep things as efficient as possible, but then I kept being interrupted by fauna attacks and I kinda hated the disruption. It didn't help that various defense systems like turrets and the like needed their own supply chain for ammo, so I had to drop everything, start working on that, monsters started attacking my base on another location, rinse, repeat. You get the idea.
I am aware you can turn off the attacking fauna, but that feels like turning off an integral part of the game, so I dunno.
My brother is currently way, WAY into it, though, so I might give it another shake in the future.
You could always play with mods. One of them adds pollution scrubbers, which you can surround your base with to make sure biters are never prompted to attack in the first place. I have several hundred hours in one save that has a metaphoric wall of filters that has yet to be attacked outside of a few instances when I was expanding.
Out of curiosity and just for the novelty of doing it, I found another mod that made a combinator device which would output the current pollution for the chunk that it was contained within. Using that, I set up a whole system to turn on the exact number of scrubbers I needed to prevent any pollution from leaving my base. Never actually implemented it because it was wildly impractical, but it was a fun project just to see if I could do it.
In a very real sense, the game is only intended to be played in the manner that makes it actually fun for you.
The fauna is an integral part of the game only in the sense that the pollution produced by your machines makes them angry and makes them evolve, and a lot of work has gone into balancing the pollution/evolution rates to provide a sort of tension and pressure that adapts to how fast you are progressing. If you care a lot about experiencing things "as the devs intended them" then I understand not wanting to cut off an entire system and set of mechanics. In that sense, dealing with the attacking fauna without completely stalling or falling apart is one of the first hurdles you are "meant" to struggle with.
There are intermediates between keeping the attacking fauna and removing them: you can disable their expansion, you can make them only attack when damaged, and you can tweak the numbers that determine how your factory's pollution affects them. You can also change the amount of "safe space" the game forces the map to give you around where you spawn - this alone can be the difference between the early game being anxiety-inducing or quite relaxed. These can only be done at map generation (unless you don't mind using console commands to change things on an existing save/map).
Without changing any map settings, it's not immediately obvious how many options you have to address the problem in-game, but here are some pointers if you ever do give it another try:
- trees will absorb pollution, preventing it from reaching biter nests. They can absorb a decent amount but will eventually die and stop absorbing. Starting in a forest can be a bit more cramped than in a desert but at least you don't have to fend off as many attacks early on.
- avoid overproducing just to fill up buffers - you probably don't need to have 2k green circuits sitting in a chest as soon as you can make them. avoid emitting all of that pollution until you actively need those items.
- try to set up defences before they are needed. You can build a new production line first to know what space it requires, but set up walls and turrets before you turn it on. This should help prevent you being interrupted by attacks on undefended machines.
- researching damage upgrades gives you more damage output per unit of pollution produced, helping keep the balance in your favor
- only a nest that is exposed to pollution will send attack parties. You can toggle displaying pollution in the world map (now called "Remote View") and proactively clear out nests before the pollution his them. You're essentially choosing between proactive defensive efforts vs reactive efforts.
- reloading a previous save to change your approach without restarting an entire game is totally legit and nothing to be ashamed of.
At the end of what I would call the early game, you unlock even more options.
- efficiency modules reduce the pollution a machine emits. They also reduce the amount of electricity the machine consumes, which will indirectly lower your pollution by making you burn less coal
- solar power is a great way to lower the amount your factory is polluting once your panels and accumulators are already made. Making enough to power your whole base, however, takes a lot of steel and other ressources, whose refinement emits pollution. So don't expect solar power to automatically fix your fauna problems - it'll take a little bit of thought
- laser turrets do away with the need to produce ammo and get it to the front lines, though the spikes in power consumption they cause keeps them from being a total, immediate fix. Similar to solar power, you'll need to plan a bit.
- flamethrower turrets are much easier to supply than gun turrets, and can be waaaaaaaay cheaper depending on how much crude oil you have available to you
Finally, you could also first play the game through once without the fauna to get familiarized, and then do a second run with them activated. in my experience, it's a lot more fun to deal with them once you know your way around the other mechanics.
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I'm just glad the length of my response didn't intimidate you. Factorio is really one of my favorite games of all time, top personal contender for "if you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring 1 video game with you", so it's easy to ramble far too long about.
I have a universe with the dark fog swarms turned on, and I'm at the point where to get to the most critical rare materials I need to eliminate them from around the stars they're orbiting. I'm bottlenecked in producing the fleet to help me take them out because I don't have any of the stuff on that planet. I got them 99% eliminated before I had to retreat but by the time I got back they were mostly rebuilt but I was still a ways off from fully resupplied.
So I gave up and went back to a peaceful universe. I found a planet tidally locked to its star and got to the point where I was literally just waiting while swarms and swarms of Dyson structure components launched. Like I literally left it running and watched a movie more than once.
So I stopped playing and am really in to planet crafter now but I'm getting towards the end of that. ...I think. Honestly I thought I was towards the end more than once already.
You can tune the biters and make them spawn less, tech up slower etc.
IIRC you can also use the Rail world mode and turn the settings as if they are Normal mode since any cleared space will not respawn biters.
You can also turn up the resource richness and size so you have to expand less and then every now and then clear out an area. I used to be a bit turned off by the biters but now I've leaned into it and have have blueprints for making laser perimeter which kinda automates a lot of the biter handling.
Maybe you just need a mindset shift where the biters are another automation challenge instead of it being an intrusion. I really hope you get to enjoy this game, I can't anymore since I have a baby now but I hope you can. I'll for sure start again as soon as time allows.
Also, aim for 100% roboport coverage so you can automatically rebuild everything that gets destroyed. Then you can clear out something, paste a perimeter wall and continue on with factory stuff.
What other automation games are you into?
The latest one I tried out was Oddsparks which I think is fantastic but I bounced off it because the rail system is a bit underpowered compared to what I'm used to in Factorio and Satsfactory.
It solves most of the Jank like non dividable Produktion times and such, so yes, its great
But I hate the maps.
I finally did the last satisfactory delivery last week and have started making themeed train stations and ficsonium power plants.
The only game that feels like a job that I'd actually love to do lol.
Chinese tanks could soon strike like fighter jets to kill beyond sight
Chinese tanks could soon strike like fighter jets to kill beyond sight
China’s PLA is moving its ground forces from traditional close-range tank warfare to long-range, beyond-visual-range combat.Kapil Kajal (Interesting Engineering)
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What's a good Google Drive replacement for syncing my Keepass database?
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The downside is that if a device you aren't online with modifies it, and doesn't reconnect to the internet or even LAN that the other client is on, other clients will be out of date and potentially cause file syncing/overwriting issues.
But SyncThing is a good tool for this.
SyncThing only syncs when both devices are online at the same time.
So a comon scenario is: You change the DB on your laptop, then shut it down. You open the DB on your desktop. Since the lapotp isn't online at the same time, you are working with the old DB version. If you change it, you have two competing versions.
I don't know exactly what happens then; I'm facing it and am procrastinating dealing with it ^^
That sync will be resolved by syncthing's logic. It will probably result in lost data.
I would suggest an app that does its own sync logic, like vaultwarden. That way, the client can update the database when it's back online, instead of an external sync replacing the whole database file.
Synching will create a conflict file when this happens. Nothing is lost but a user must look out for these files and merge manually.
KeepassXC has its own merge logic and will happily absorb changes to a file on disk whilst open. However if two offline machines both change a database then you will get a conflict file and will have to ask keepass to merge them.
It creates a sync conflict file, so the data is there but the two differing versions aren't automatically resolved.
One way out of this is to either have it on a server that's always connected (less common) or to just have it on your phone. That way you have an intermediary that syncs the changes.
KeePass(XC & 2Android) has a really excellent merge algorithm. I rarely have issues wiþ merging, but yeah - you do have to watch out for sync files and merge DBs ASAP.
I'm not sure how Drive would address þis, þough. Any conflicting, offline change is going to cause a conflict, and only KeePass knows how to merge DB conflicts.
Is offline file editing an issue with all file syncing tools?
I've been using Syncthing for a year or so and not noticed that it's any worse or better at this than GDrive or Dropbox
I used to use Filen for this, but it never worked very well. The file provider path it returned to Keepass2android was only temporary, so it would break periodically. Did Filen change how that works?
I eventually started using Syncthing instead. I connect to my home wi-fi often enough that it's never too far out of sync with my home PC. And since it's a local file, there's no issue with using absolute paths.
You can migrate from bitwarden to keepass, i'm not sure about the other way around.
I'm surprised no one recommended syncthing.
Syncthing lets you sync changes on any folder/drive across multiple devices via the local network - no cloud needed. I currently use it for my keepass database, Music folder and Documents folder. It's als very simple to set up.
Only downside to this is that if your house burns down you'll lose everything - but a friend suggested me to have important files on an encrypted tarball stored in the cloud.
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Only downside to this is that if your house burns down you’ll lose everything - but a friend suggested me to have important files on an encrypted tarball stored in the cloud.
For those with lots of files and poor upload speeds but blessed with a desk at work, also consider stashing an encrypted disk in a drawer / fake plant / etc.
The amount of headaches I had setting this up... I can't tell you how hard I tried.
I think in the end I figured out it doesn't like vlans very much if you don't want to use their relay.
Second Syncthing, it is very fast, reliable, and flexible.
I used it coming from FileSync and Dropbox, and I had to change the way I thought about my shared folders to architect a good system for me. Eg: each root shared folder should serve a particular function that determines which devices it should be shared to (does this share need to be accessible in your phone? Laptop? PC? NAS?).
FYI you can set up untrusted peer sync to have your files all synching to another device (SFF device at your friend or relatives house, or a cloud server). That eliminates the concern of your house burning down, while keeping all of your Syncthing data secure and not worrying about it being stolen or accessed. If your house burns down you can connect back to the untrusted peer sync, put in your passphrase, and your data will all return.
I sync using jottacloud (given that I use the database on my smartphone in a read only fashion)
There is a CLI for linux.
GitHub - sigoden/dufs: A file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav...
A file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav... - sigoden/dufsGitHub
Others have said it, but SyncThing all the way. Open source, been around for a decade, battle tested, no cloud, full control over everything.
I didn't see this mentioned, but you can also tell KeePass to auto reload the database if the file gets updated elsewhere. Makes it so you can run the same KeePass database on multiple devices with live/realtime updates. I've used this setup instead of vaultwarden/passbolt on several IT teams to keep the important stuff separate from the normal systems. It's not on by default usually, but right in the Basic Settings page under File Management.
I have KeePass+SyncThing on 3 laptops, 2 androids, and a home server. If I add a password to one of my androids while I'm out and about (and I have cell data), next time I sit down at my desk it's already available. Vice versa works, too. If my home server dies, the other devices don't care and keep syncing amongst themselves. I think I've had some version of this setup going since SyncThing released, I can't imagine using anything else.
Do note that since there is no cloud or infrastructure behind it, sync conflicts do happen when a device in the network goes offline for a while. It'll never get rid of files if there's an error syncing, but instead create a second copy with a timestamped filename. If this happens to your password db file, KeePass can then merge the two copies together and sort things out mostly automatically. Over the many years I've been using this, it doesn't happen as often when you're the only person using any of the devices that sync. It can happen a lot when you share the setup with someone else, though.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left | Scott Bessent suggests that Treasury is 'compiling lists' of nonprofit advocacy groups
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in the process of launching a War on Terror-style campaign against progressive…Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
MIT researchers developed a way to make cells detach from surfaces on demand, using electrochemically generated bubbles.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jim Bolger, New Zealand’s 35th Prime Minister, dies, aged 90
Jim Bolger, New Zealand’s 35th Prime Minister, dies, aged 90
Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger has died aged 90. His family said he died peacefully yesterday, surrounded by his nine children, 18 grandchildren and wifeNewstalk ZB (www.newstalkzb.co.nz)
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Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free
Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free
Thanks to Extended Security Updates, you don't have to make the switch to Windows 11 just yet.Katie Teague (Engadget)
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Microsoft account log in required.
Shhhh, no one tell them there is a free way without a Microsoft account.
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massgrave.dev/How about seven instead, and for free?
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If serious, whichever one works best for you. Lots of info out there to help steer you to a good match. There are some that will have a harder time than others thanks to Microsoft domination all these years.
If not serious. Arch, of course.
For a desktop OS, I have been recommending Linux Mint to new Linux users. The UI feels familiar to a Windows veteran, and the initial setup is designed to be user friendly.
However, don't fret too much over it. Distros are mostly just a pre-configuration of the OS, all of them can do everything.
Home - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.www.linuxmint.com
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If you want to delay your switch to Linux, there are scripts to enroll in the ESU, but unfortunately the local account script stopped working on the one I used. Have not tested massgravel's. Other options are to get Win 10 LTSC, or keep your system disconnected from the Internet.
An aside: My main desktop is Linux but I am currently trying Winboat to get the last piece of my hardware dependence off (my 20 year old DAC and rocksmith 2014) to work. Then, I can finally nuke Windows off of my secondary laptop because I'm sure as hell not giving it Win 11.
get the last piece of my hardware dependence off...my 20 year old DAC
The $9 Apple DAC is unironically good. I can confirm it is plug-and-play with Mint.
Edit: To be clear, it is good if you just need an audio output (the core feature of a DAC). If you want crazy DAC features, it clearly isn't it.
Buy USB-C to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter
The USB-C to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter lets you connect a standard 3.5 mm audio plug to your USB-C devices. Perfect for headphones or speakers.Apple
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With the rate of CVEs scored at 9+ that come across all the stuff I manage at work I would not agree.
It would be foolish to simply stop patching this giant pile of obsolete insecure dependencies they are calling windows.
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How about seven instead, and for free?
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Yes. And using Rufus to create your install media, you can even configure it to create a local account for you so you don't have to go through the rigmarole yourself.
Actually, I wonder if that still works with an image of the new current Win11 releases where the local account functionality has been "removed." I haven't tried it. Someone will probably chime in.
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Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now
ITHACA, NY—Citing numerous advancements in communication technology over the years, a study released Wednesday by researchers at Cornell University found that voices coming through walkie-talkies should sound normal by now.
“After countless hours of fact-finding and analysis, we’ve concluded that it’s 2025, and the speaker shouldn’t be all crackly anymore,” said lead researcher Jerome Thompson, noting that at a time when humanity was developing quantum computers, it was “pretty messed-up” that voices in two-way radio transceivers still came out tinny and could be difficult to understand.
“They should sound like cell phones, but instead they sound weird and staticky. Any handheld device should sound as though the person is standing right there in the room with you. And honestly, they should’ve sounded like that a long time ago—I mean, phones have sounded good for ages, so why not walkie-talkies?” The study follows a report out earlier this month that concluded people using walkie-talkies shouldn’t have to say “over” at the end of every sentence.
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.
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They're running a Kickstarter Campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/larry…
Episodes Released So Far:
- Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mom move from outright hostility to deep tenderness
- Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human.
- A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
- Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
- Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
- Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
- Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right
Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:
- Guns — Two Traumatized Women Divided by Ideology
- Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
- Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
- Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
- Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
- Race in the U.S. [participants being interviewed now]
Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.
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is i2p relevant today?
after a year or so hiatus I reinstalled i2p on my debian.
I don't think I'm going to use it much: I enjoyed using it to torrent files and to ask about censorship circumvention, things I now have alternatives to.
why is this network still relevant?
And that's exactly what happened a few years ago when the tor network was having issues.
People needed a backup, and i2p was there waiting.
It's technology like this that I think will become more and more important as governments seek to restrict access to large parts of the internet. UK and Australia are forging ahead in censorship, and the EU is well on their way. The US already does some censorship, as do large parts of Asia and Russia.
No matter the reason given, it's always about control. So less easily censored technologies will be very useful for anyone that wants the ability to research truth, or at least, alternate points of view.
I always saw I2P as a more modern and distributed onion-routing alternative to Tor.
The thing is that people are used to making use of Tor in different ways than the way they use I2P, but you can also have outproxies (ie. exit nodes/relays) in I2P the same way as in Tor.. and you can also host a service inside the Tor network without relying on an exit node, like in I2P. It's just that people only seem to want to host exit nodes for Tor and not so much for I2P, this led to internal communications in I2P being more common (which is a good thing), whereas in Tor it's common to use it for anonymous access to the clearnet (which strains the network and causes chokepoints, specially with big downloads or torrent sharing). That's just a matter of usage, not capability.
btw any of you i2p nerds have a mixed setup with clearnet torrenting + i2p?
how did you set it up and how do you like it?
Unlike Tor, I think the heavy use of p2p file sharing on the network adds "cover traffic," making things like correlation attacks harder.
I'm curious what the alternatives to i2p are that you use now?
I wish there were more higher latency anonymous networks (to make correlation attacks harder). katzenpost.network looks interesting, but is just academic right now; all the other stuff in this space is blockchain crap.
Reversal:
communist: I'm all for ending this oppressive system, but only if we do it with a state that will wither awayanarchist: So... by magic?
anarchist:
just got to wait for the capitalist state to whither away
socialist state:
so I guess we agree?
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Once the proletarian state possesses political power and controls the means of production, it will “wither away” over time as it suppresses the bourgeoisie and moves toward a classless society. While the state must exist while class distinctions remain, it becomes superfluous in a classless society. The use of force is no longer necessary to suppress class antagonisms, because there are no classes. Lenin includes a long quote from Engels to explain this phenomenon, a portion of which is sampled below:
As soon as there is no longer any social class to be held in subjection, as soon as class rule, and the individual struggle for existence based upon the present anarchy in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from this struggle, are removed, nothing more remains to be held in subjection — nothing necessitating a special coercive force, a state. The first act by which the state really comes forward as the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — is also its last independent act as a state. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies down of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not ‘abolished’. It withers away. This gives the measure of the value of the phrase ‘a free people’s state’, both as to its justifiable use for a long time from an agitational point of view, and as to its ultimate scientific insufficiency; and also of the so-called anarchists’ demand that the state be abolished overnight.” (From Anti-Düring)
If you agree with the premises behind this argument, the conclusion must follow. If the state arises from class antagonisms in society and exists for the purpose of class suppression, it must therefore exist while there are classes (even during a proletarian revolution!) and start to die off once class is abolished. Engels’ description, “the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production,” explains the change in the nature of the State very well. Lenin points out that under the dictatorship of the proletariat, the State is no longer “the State” proper, but a different kind of institution altogether.
The basis of the state is class struggle, so to eliminate it you eliminate class. The basis of class is differences in relation to the means of production, so the answer is to collectivize all production. Until we get there, classes will remain, thus elements like police are necessary to keep the proletariat in control and capitalists oppressed, and as production and distribution collectivizes then so too will the basis of the state itself become unnecessary as class struggle fades alongside class itself.
It isn't by magic, it's based in sound analysis of socialism and the economic basis of class and the state itself.
The basis of the state is class struggle, so to eliminate it you eliminate class.thus elements like police are necessary to keep the proletariat in control and capitalists oppressed
That is the main basis, but it is not the only one, and police are a good example of it. More often than not police enjoy the power that their position gives them. The job itself attracts people who enjoy having power over others, and that's not strictly a mechanism of classes existing.
The state backs up their power, and so they are influenced to protect the existence of the state. Anybody who commands the police will see the police as an extension of their power and will be similarly influenced.
Power corrupts and makes people want to retain power.
This is more idealist than materialist. "Power" isn't a real substance, it has no ability to "corrupt" people or turn them "evil." Police exist to protect the ruling class, the state itself is not a class but an extension of the ruling class in society. The state does not exist to prop itself up, it's a tool by the ruling class of society to entrench itself, prop up ruling class ideology, and suppress any resistance from the working class.
People act in their own interests, and in capitalism profit is the driving factor. The capitalists at the top are the ones that best get the most profits by any means necessary, so the ones at the top are typically more morally bankrupt. It wasn't that power corrupted them, but capitalism as a system selected for them.
In socialism, this isn't the case, and when we measure it up to how socialism exists in practice we don't see this kind of "power corruption." That isn't to say corruption doesn't exist in socialism, it absolutely does, but that isn't because of metaphysical powers of corruption. The closest is that people's existing material conditions and the way they interact with production does change their thought-process (called class consciousness), but that isn't the same as saying anyone with any degree of authority is being mentally poisoned by it into becoming evil.
Further, as Dessalines said, socialist planning and administration is more collectivized, both by intention and by necessity. You physically couldn't have a single person, or elite few, making all of the decisions in socialist society.
This is more idealist than materialist. “Power” isn’t a real substance, it has no ability to “corrupt” people or turn them “evil.”
But you are suggesting we create organization structures with authority over others. Immeasurable or not, it has an effect on human behavior which cannot just be ignored.
People act in their own interests, and in capitalism profit is the driving factor. The capitalists at the top are the ones that best get the most profits by any means necessary, so the ones at the top are typically more morally bankrupt. It wasn’t that power corrupted them, but capitalism as a system selected for them.
And police organizations select for those who enjoy (or are at a bare minimum comfortable with) having power over others. The same goes for government structures.
That isn’t to say corruption doesn’t exist in socialism, it absolutely does, but that isn’t because of metaphysical powers of corruption.
I never said anything about this being a metaphysical effect. This is an effect in relation to human behavior, organization, and economic structure.
Further, as Dessalines said, socialist planning and administration is more collectivized, both by intention and by necessity. You physically couldn’t have a single person, or elite few, making all of the decisions in socialist society.
As I told Dessalines, it doesn’t have to be one person. A council, committee, or other group of people can always be incentivized to retain and accumulate power.
You didn't address that your analysis is idealist and not materialist. Power does not select for power. This kind of vague, metaphysical explanation for what actually goes on, class struggle, is why you're running into opposition from Marxists. A materialist answer requires that we analyze class, and why we even form hierarchies to begin with. As I said in another comment:
That’s a bit like saying you can have battlefield success with only footsoldiers and no tacticians or strategians, or like saying a factory can run smoothly without foremen, or that a ship can sail safely without a capitain. We develop administrative positions because of their utility even within a class, not just class-based hierarchy like workers and owners. The latter, class-based distinctions are a product of unequal ownership and control, the former are a product of material necessity.Cooperative production can work, but only for certain industries and certain scales. Agriculture is a good example, but for something more complex like smartphone production that involves global supply chains and intense safety risks for mining, shipping, silicon processing, etc, it’s just not feasible to do cooperatively and horizontally. Even then, for agriculture, as we advance to more efficient industrialized production we too develop beyond the basis for cooperative ownership to function.
Administration is not a bad thing. What’s bad is class society, which allows a small portion of society to plunder the vast majority of the spoils of social production.
In short, administration is not inherently bad. Like violence, like fire, like any tool, it can be good or bad depending on how and why it's used. In socialist, collectivized society, the basis of class is eroding. The state is not independent of class struggle, but rather fully dependent on it and within it, while not itself being a class. As production and distribution is collectivized, class struggle erodes alongside class itself, as do the oppressive mechanisms of society we call the "state." Administration, as far as it is legitimately useful, remains, as it should.
I'm not exactly sure what the question is, but if its that "power always corrupts", this might be true for capitalist countries, which allow private ownership of capital, and creates a system that encourages and incentivizes accumulation of power.
But In a socialist state, where the heights of the economy are controlled not by private capitalist dictators, but by collective decision-making, and production decisions are controlled at the collective political level, then no one person can accumulate that much power, and they would be (and are) punished when they try to subvert the collective authority.
Taking the example of police, the important question is who commands them, and for whose benefit? In proletarian states, police are commanded not by capitalists who use them to protect their private property, but by the socialist state who commands them to protect the people. Socialist states are going to be receptive to accusations of abuses, because that means they're harming the people.
That's a key distinction between proletarian cops and capitalist ones.
I’m not exactly sure what the question is, but if its that “power always corrupts”, this might be true for capitalist countries, which allow private ownership of capital, and creates a system that encourages and incentivizes accumulation of power.
I haven't posed a question. And what I am trying to get at is that power itself incentivizes accumulation and retention of power.
then no one person can accumulate that much power,
It doesn't have to be one person, a council, committee, or other group of people can always be incentivized to retain and accumulate power.
but by the socialist state who commands them to protect the people. Socialist states are going to be receptive to accusations of abuses, because that means they’re harming the people.
The PRC regularly attacks citizens and journalists that criticize their government.
materially, socialist states tend to be much better to workers. straight up, it isn't even a contest.
as a communist i agree that in an ideal world the state should not exist. as a third worlder, i doubt we can defend ourselves against the burgeoise and imperialism without it in the real world. history shows it pretty clearly over here. maybe westerners can have straight up communism, we don't have that luxury.
that said, i understand why countries like china are overzealous with censorship because when you give too much leeway to them, they will worm their way into people's heads out of the sheer amount of resources dedicated to pushing anticommunism.
also when i look into most anarchists i meet here, it's usually just ancaps or libs.
The past is definitely not a guide for how to achieve a future society or how that society should look, but it does remind us that a society without a state can exist.
It's not the hard part, but when we're told that thoughts of a stateless society are fantastical it's good to remember that it has been done before.
but that requires erasing the basis of class society.
Something impossible to achieve while maintaining the tools of oppression (authoritarianism/statehood) that protect and nurture such divisions
Yes, but there are bosses right now. And they would still be very powerful, even if they lost control of the state. They don't care about what's best for everyone. They care about what's best for them. They would still control all those machines, institutions, money, private armies, the media and they would have the total support of all the capitalist militaries of the world, ready to come in and completely crush horizontal power and suppress mutualism. So the class of bosses wouldn't magically disappear over night.
If people organized (either "horizontally" or otherwise) to form some thing, some kind of organization or institution or loose federation of grassroots cooperatives or whatever you want to call it, that would be able to suppress this boss class and their military and everything. That thing would be what marxist leninists call a state by definition. Because when we talk about a state, we mean nothing more or less than a weapon able to force the will of one class upon another. Even if that will is just:"stop forcing your will on us non-bosses".
How horizontal it is internally dosn't matter at all for the definition of a state.
That's a bit like saying you can have battlefield success with only footsoldiers and no tacticians or strategians, or like saying a factory can run smoothly without foremen, or that a ship can sail safely without a capitain. We develop administrative positions because of their utility even within a class, not just class-based hierarchy like workers and owners. The latter, class-based distinctions are a product of unequal ownership and control, the former are a product of material necessity.
Cooperative production can work, but only for certain industries and certain scales. Agriculture is a good example, but for something more complex like smartphone production that involves global supply chains and intense safety risks for mining, shipping, silicon processing, etc, it's just not feasible to do cooperatively and horizontally. Even then, for agriculture, as we advance to more efficient industrialized production we too develop beyond the basis for cooperative ownership to function.
Administration is not a bad thing. What's bad is class society, which allows a small portion of society to plunder the vast majority of the spoils of social production.
This seams contradictory. Isn't communism also supposed to be stateless?
Edit: Oh nvm you mean the socialist transition.
Nation states, power, fiat currencies, religions, borders constitutions and laws are just games we play in our heads. A tally stick doesn't work anymore as a measure of value. Kings are dethroned. Old ideas are replaced with new ones (for better or worse)
We make these thoughts in our heads real, but they dont exist unless we make it so. We actually could wish this all away as though a spell was cast. Magic as you say.
People are to busy trying to make life happen or are to invested in their favorite flavor of boot polish to think of a new way to live our lives unfortunately.
Fine by me. I got a vasectomy. I didn't force a kid to play y'alls reindeer games. Couldn't care less. Back to playing the world's smallest violin in the world's tiniest box.
Israel accuses Hamas of returning wrong body
Israel accuses Hamas of returning wrong body
One of the corpses delivered by Hamas is believed to be of a Palestinian, the Israeli military has saidRT
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🇰🇵 DPRK animated series, produced by SEK Studio
Squirrel and Hedgehog is one of the DPRK’s longest-running animated shows. Airing from 1977 all the way until 2012, it’s extremely well known within the country
For anyone who wants to watch Squirrel and Hedgehog, I’ve found a link, and it even has English subtitles!
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Don't fight it, son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
Madagascar's president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina was toppled Tuesday in a military coup that capped weeks of youth protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country.
Right after parliament voted to impeach Rajoelina, who fled the country fearing for his safety, the leader of Madagascar’s elite CAPSAT military unit said the armed forces would form a council made up of officers from the armed forces and gendarmerie, a military unit that polices civilians, and would appoint a prime minister to “quickly” form a civilian government.
“We are taking power,” Col. Michael Randrianirina told reporters in front of a ceremonial presidential palace in the capital, Antananarivo, as protesters celebrated the news with soldiers. He said the constitution and High Constitutional Court’s powers had been suspended, and that a referendum would be held in two years, though he didn’t go into detail.
From an undisclosed location after fleeing, Rajoelina issued a decree Tuesday trying to dissolve parliament’s lower house in an apparent attempt to preempt being impeached. But lawmakers ignored it and voted overwhelmingly to end the rule of the 51-year-old leader, who himself came to power as a transitional leader in a military-backed coup in 2009.
https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-rajoelina-ab1e1eb1aca45fe7e80e81314ebdb0c6
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Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats
Full List of Young Republicans Involved in Offensive Chats
The messages showed some young Republicans calling black people monkeys, joking about Hitler's gas chambers and calling rape "epic."Jordan King (Newsweek)
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The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.
They're running a Kickstarter Campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/larry…
Episodes Released So Far:
- Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mommove from outright hostility to deep tenderness
Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human. - A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
- Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
- Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
- Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
- Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right
Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:
- Guns — Two Traumitized Women Divided by Ideology
- Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
- Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
- Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
- Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
- Race in the U.S. [particapants being interviewed now]
Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.
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Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN
The debate is set to take place on the “Ceasefire” program hosted by POLITICO White House Bureau Chief and Chief Playbook Correspondent Dasha Burns.
The move comes as the two House leaders trade daily barbs over the government shutdown, with little direct communication between the two. It’s unclear if the debate will happen during the government shutdown; C-SPAN said the date is to be announced.
Paul Sutton (zleap)
in reply to Delta_V • • •Delta_V
in reply to Paul Sutton (zleap) • • •Snot Flickerman
in reply to Paul Sutton (zleap) • • •The exploits are addressed in the patch released yesterday, on the final day of support.
Generally such exploits aren't released to the public until they have been patched, to prevent wider abuse of the exploits in the meantime.
msrc.microsoft.com/update-guid…
As you can see here near the bottom of the page it lists security updates for this epxloit having been released on October 14rh, 2025, the final day of Win10 support. These updates will still be available to Windows 10 systems even after October 14th, they will just be unable to get new patches after that date.
Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
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Paul Sutton (zleap)
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •So will MS leave people in the lurch or issue an emergency patch? The former will drive people straight to replacements and the community need to be like a predator ready to move in to injured prey.
If we don't it will be a massive opportunity lost.
Snot Flickerman
in reply to Paul Sutton (zleap) • • •The patch has already been released, that's literally my point. It was part of their final patches released for Windows 10 yesterday.
This is from the CVE page for the exploits discussed in the srticle.
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Rhaedas
in reply to Delta_V • • •So stick with my Linux and don't boot into Windows again. Got it.
Lots of these exploits can be very specific cases so aren't going to threaten the average user. However the point is, Windows 10 is now a huge target and there are lots who would love to take advantage of a freshly open gate.
FreedomAdvocate
in reply to Rhaedas • • •Snot Flickerman
in reply to Delta_V • • •To anyone misreading this, these exploits were patched yesterday and thus were included as the final patch for Windows 10 before the extended security updates requirements kick in.
Known exploits are always reported to the company first to give them time to patch it before releasing info on the exploits.
All Windows 10 users will continue to have access to the patches in this final freely available patch Tuesday for Windows 10. They just can't get new updates without joining the ESU program.
I hate Microsoft too and only use Linux, but let's stop the circlejerk of false claims here please and thank you.
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in reply to sourhill • • •Nope 0 days means
Zero-day vulnerability: A software flaw that attackers discover before the developer does.
Zero-day exploit: The method hackers use to take advantage of this unknown vulnerability.
Zero-day attack: An attack that uses a zero-day exploit to damage a system, steal data, or plant malware before a patch is available.
This is a serious risk because no defenses are in place for this specific flaw yet.
The first is the most common one found in the press and is usually reported to the company so they can patch it, before press release.
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in reply to sourhill • • •Rentlar
in reply to Delta_V • • •FRYD doesn't like this.
yoriaiko
in reply to Delta_V • • •If true:
Totally none did wait for most popular win10 end supports...
If fake:
Totally none sus this for being fake scarecrow against anyone who would like to stay on non-service, standalone system.
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in reply to Delta_V • • •Snot Flickerman
in reply to paraphrand • • •Other articles make more clear why that is.
cyberpress.org/windows-agere-m…
So maybe not all the way back to the original release, but back to the first release that included this specific telephony modem driver,
ltmdm64.sys. If I recall correctly, Windows 3.1 brought networking capabilities.However, another article claims it has only been shipped with every version of Windows since 2006.
thestack.technology/windows-us…
Which honestly makes a lot more sense, since the "64" part of the driver name implies it's for 64 bit systems, which were first introduced in 2003.
Some more extraneous info on this driver/hardware:
sysnative.com/forums/drivers/1…
theretroweb.com/chips/10725
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agere_Sy…
American integrated circuit components company
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)paraphrand
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •Thanks for the details!
I wonder how often they clean stuff up like this. That crossed my mind earlier, I’m sure there is a bunch of “dormant” software that could be cleaned out or made optional in some way.
But the making it optional idea is easier said than done. Especially from a standpoint of discoverability and usability.
Snot Flickerman
in reply to paraphrand • • •Right, it was referenced in one of the articles that a bunch of legacy industrial machines likely still use this hardware, so the people using those old machines are probably going to have to go dig up PCI modems from that era without the Agere/Lucent chipset.
I'm sure you're right and there's lots of stuff they've missed like this over the years that they sort of kept on for compatibility but that opens exploits due to how old they are.
Em Adespoton
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •Snot Flickerman
in reply to Em Adespoton • • •The patch is for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Server 2008 up to Server 2025.
Further, there's companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.
It's conceivable that legacy systems are using modern OSes with virtualization running a legacy OS and legacy PCI cards, for example. It's not beyond the realm of possibility.
nixsys.com/legacy-computers/pc…
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in reply to paraphrand • • •EndlessNightmare
in reply to paraphrand • • •I was curious about the "every version ever shipped."
This gets really old school.