"secure boot is needed to stop cheaters"
Bf6 players:


2012: "Secure boot is a plot by Microsoft to kill Linux"
2025: EA's insistence on invasive anti-cheat results in a bunch of Windows users managing to get their secure boot configuration into a state where their GPUs no longer work and there's no recovery path: reddit.com/r/Battlefield/commeโ€ฆ

Microsoft would have to be *very* bad at this for a plot to have backfired this badly


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01:43 Twitter's acquisition makes Mastodon explode
03:17 KDE will add better tiling capabilities out of the box
04:24 Scammers use GIMP ads to install malware
06:16 Vanilla OS looks like it's going to fix everything wrong with Ubuntu
07:33 KDE prepares Plasma 6 with UI improvements
08:58 GNOME 43's Quick Settings are extremely expandable
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Twitter's acquisition makes Mastodon explode
pcmag.com/news/mastodon-gains-โ€ฆ

KDE will add better tiling capabilities out of the box
notmart.org/blog/2022/10/kwin-โ€ฆ

Scammers use GIMP ads to install malware
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secuโ€ฆ

Vanilla OS looks like it's going to fix everything wrong with Ubuntu
news.itsfoss.com/vanilla-os-beโ€ฆ

KDE prepares Plasma 6 with UI improvements
pointieststick.com/2022/10/28/โ€ฆ

GNOME 43's Quick Settings are extremely expandable
omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/gnome-โ€ฆ
omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/removeโ€ฆ

OpenSSL issue isn't as serious as once thought
arstechnica.com/information-teโ€ฆ

OneXplayer SteamOS support, XCloud better on Linux...
gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/bettโ€ฆ

winehq.org//announce/7.20

reddit.com/r/xcloud/comments/yโ€ฆ

gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/steaโ€ฆ

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Amazon has discounted the stylish Magic: The Gathering Aetherdrift Finish Line Bundle at its lowest price yet today, but there's limited time remaining to secure the deal.

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Iโ€™m constantly amused by the idea that we will invent AGI and AI will solve all of our problems. We donโ€™t need AGI to solve our problems, even ChatGPT can already tell us obvious solutions to our current problems.

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isnโ€™t because we havenโ€™t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, weโ€™ll ignore it too.

ยป"Man muss kein Jurist sein, um zu begreifen, was in #Gaza geschiehtโ€œยซ
ยปEine israelische Menschenrechtsorganisation wirft der Regierung Netanjahu und der Armee vor, im Gazastreifen einen Vรถlkermord zu begehen. Die Leiterin Yuli Novak begrรผndet, wie sie zu diesem Schluss kommt.ยซ #Genozid #Israel #btselem
sueddeutsche.de/politik/israelโ€ฆ (paywall)

archive.today/zuCvp

in reply to stephie

ยปDeshalb liegt es in der Verantwortung der internationalen Gemeinschaft, uns zu helfen. Und wenn ich sage โ€žunsโ€œ, meine ich uns alle. Wenn diese vรถlkermรถrderische Regierung so extreme Gewalt im Gazastreifen anwenden kann, dann tut sie es womรถglich bald im Westjordanland, spรคter gegenรผber den Palรคstinensern in Israel und schlieรŸlich gegen alle, die sich gegen sie stellen. Das Schlimmste liegt noch vor uns.ยซ

Wichtiger Text von Genozid-Forscher Martin Shaw darรผber dass es Staatsrรคson aller Staaten und Individuen sein sollte Genozid zu stoppen, und Lรคnder, die einen Genozid begehen oder unterstรผtzen komplett zu isolieren.

ยปWhen Genocide Denial Is the Norm.
#Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending #Israelโ€™s genocide in #Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values.ยซ
jacobin.com/2025/08/genocide-iโ€ฆ

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ยปThis pressure should center on the idea of โ€œbreaking with Israel,โ€ a comprehensive boycott that matches the horror of the genocide. No state that commits this should be tolerated, and the breaking of relations should be comprehensive. Military, trade, and cultural agreements and links should be canceled. Imports as well as exports, commercial as well as military, from Israel as a whole, not just the illegally occupied territories, should be banned. ยซ
in reply to stephie

ยปAll Israeli ministers and public figures who have supported the genocide should be barred, not just token extreme-right ministers. Visa-free travel from Israel into other countries should be ended โ€” 170 currently allow it, including many that nominally oppose the Gaza genocide โ€” so that the entry of those who have participated in the genocide can be prevented.ยซ

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Wadephul rudert zurรผck: Habe deutsche Friedenstruppen in der Ukraine nie ausgeschlossen apollo-news.net/wadephul-ruderโ€ฆ Nach Bemerkungen รผber einen mรถglichen Bundeswehr-Einsatz als Teil einer Friedenstruppe ist BundesauรŸenminister Johann Wadephul zurรผckgerudert. Gegenรผber table.media hatte der CDU-Politiker ...
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ElazฤฑฤŸ'da Tadฤฑm Kalesi ve HรถyรผฤŸรผ'nde yรผrรผtรผlen arkeolojik kazฤฑlarda yaklaลŸฤฑk 6 bin yฤฑllฤฑk 2 kutsal ocak, testi ve รงok sayฤฑda Karaz tipi รงรถmlek bulundu.

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โ€˜Thereโ€™s just no wayโ€™: Man held in same jail cell as #Epstein says zero chance he took his own life
independent.co.uk/news/world/aโ€ฆ

Today is the largest action in the history of Norway against its fossil industry, with at least 200 blockading oil refinery at Mongstad, SW Norway, with reportedly at least 200 habitat heroes (some indicate more) coming to help defend your right to a livable habitat also from other places such as around 50 from neighboring Sweden, out of which one is Greta Thunberg.
Not just road blockade, but also going by kayaks into the refinery's terminal to obstruct the shipping which is killing you.
The primary culprit, Equinor, majority owned by the State, has asked the cops to defend their climate devastation for profit by removing the protesters.

Note: There was also a blockade almost exactly one year ago, for which my thread ended todon.eu/@b9AcE/11301843479061โ€ฆ there.

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Cuba and Tรผrkiye Tighten Bilateral Cooperation cubanews.acn.cu/world/27413-cuโ€ฆ

i am tired of tech journalism focusing solely on whether something followed the letter of the law.

we have a "spirit" of the law, and, when that's insufficient, i think it's very well within our right to appeal to ethics (and name which ethics, specifically). not everything has to be a factual leak-based investigation.

this investigation by Reuters: reuters.com/investigates/speciโ€ฆ into how inhumane Meta's chatbot AI guidelines are could have been followed up with an opinion piece: "this is evil".

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EU leaders in US wonโ€™t defend Zelenskyy from โ€˜humiliationโ€™ โ€“ Rubio en.news-front.su/2025/08/18/euโ€ฆ

BlackRock didnโ€™t capture Bitcoin โ€” it just walked into Bitcoinโ€™s trap.

What weโ€™re witnessing isnโ€™t Wall Street โ€œcapturingโ€ Bitcoin. Itโ€™s the collision of two massive networks: the centralized, permissioned banking grid and the decentralized, permissionless Bitcoin protocol. BlackRockโ€™s entry doesnโ€™t cage Bitcoin; it cages BlackRock. Every coin they hold is ruled by consensus they canโ€™t edit.

This is not an attack โ€” itโ€™s assimilation. Trojan Horse in plain sight. Empires think theyโ€™re onboarding the future, but history shows itโ€™s always the open network that rewires the empire. Rome didnโ€™t absorb Christianity; Christianity rewrote Rome. Telecom didnโ€™t capture the Internet; the Internet devoured telecom. And BlackRock wonโ€™t capture Bitcoin โ€” Bitcoin is devouring BlackRock, one block at a time.

in reply to remnant

Youโ€™re absolutely right to map the attack surface: the game isnโ€™t just about buying coins, itโ€™s about narrative control โ€” pushing Bitcoin into a โ€œsafe commodity boxโ€ while financializing the layers above it. Thatโ€™s a real psyop attempt, and the ETF/custody model does breed passive holders who may be herded toward โ€œstability.โ€

But hereโ€™s the catch: protocol rules arenโ€™t decided at Davos or in ETF boardrooms โ€” theyโ€™re enforced at the edge, by nodes. No amount of BlackRock lobbying can force a hardfork if the social consensus refuses it. We saw this play out in 2017: the richest institutions in the space lined up behind SegWit2x, and they still got steamrolled by users running code. Hardfork wars are asymmetric โ€” the minority with the real chain wins.

BlackRock can shape perception of Bitcoin. They can build derivatives and trap liquidity in their custodians. They can even try to blacklist UTXOs and bend regulators. But they canโ€™t bend 21M. They canโ€™t bend proof-of-work. They canโ€™t bend validation without creating a separate coin, which will bleed out the second people try to move it off their rails.

So yes โ€” treat them as adversarial. Assume they will weaponize narratives and psyops. Assume they want to cage Bitcoin as โ€œdigital gold 2.0โ€ and funnel users into custodial ETFs. But donโ€™t confuse that with protocol capture. If they push a fork, they fork themselves โ€” not Bitcoin.

On your Nostr point: I couldnโ€™t agree more. The counterattack is coordination. Nostr, open speech rails, P2P comms โ€” these are the battlefields where the next 2017-style showdown will be fought. BlackRockโ€™s advantage is narrative scale; Bitcoinโ€™s advantage is protocol sovereignty and grassroots coordination. The latter wins only if we actually build it.

BlackRock thinks itโ€™s building a moat. In reality, itโ€™s setting up the next round of the social-layer war. And like last time, itโ€™s the network with incorruptible rules and stubborn users that wins.

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Erst Geflรผchtete, dann Verarmte, dann alle anderen? Trotz lauter Kritik will die Bundesregierung die Bezahlkarte fรผr Geflรผchtete bundesweit einfรผhren. Nun plant Hamburg laut @ndaktuell die Ausweitung der Bezahlkarte auf Sozialleistungsempfรคnger*innen. Bereits im Dezember 2024 verรถffentlichten wir interne Dokumente des Bundesministeriums des Innern zur Ausarbeitung der Bezahlkarte und deckten gravierende VerstรถรŸe gegen Grundrechte und Datenschutz auf: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusโ€ฆ
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