Why would anyone give any air to the Digg people, they are sell out ?
They do not deserve a microsecond of attention and people who don’t know them should be saved from becoming their victims.
We all left Digg and empowered Reddit, and Reddit also ducked us.
How many times do you have to get burned on that hot stove to STOP DUCKING TOUCHING IT ??
I met some real people this week, they were watching advertising.
They thought the government cared about them.
One wanted to upgrade their car to add another 100 horsepower they cannot use anywhere.
Another told me, he does not like raising cows but he had to get more cows to make it more economical to raise cows.
They were all bummed out that the end of the end of the week was upon us, and soon they would have to work 40 hours in the next 5 days, doing things they stopped liking doing a long time again, if they ever did at all.
build these tools with a clear conscience.
Because if they don’t their masters they will become destitute and starve while homeless
And all social interaction happen at veiled gunpoint
Under these conditions it is no surprise at all that conscience plays no role whatsoever, it is just a savage free-for-all for survival happening under our cursed star, an insane 10 billion years long churning of thinking meat, consciousness behind birthed into the wreckage, screaming uncomprehendingly at what is happened until it soon it is just as easily, mercifully and meaninglessly snuffed out again.
Fortunately we have a shot at scorching the surface of this planet thanks to global warming and really the question is, can we make it happen before we genocide ourselves, leaving this planet’s biosphere still capable of sustaining the horrors of life ?
Do we have any example of this happening ? I mean, since it’s 33% of all cheap batteries, this must be happening millions of times per day ?
I think the intellectual property regime is an inhuman abomination and advocating in its favour should be a criminal act.
If it is not destroyed, AI companies will use it to completely enslave us.
AI companies ARE already the government, we should strive to disempower them at every turn before it’s too late.
Anduril’s autonomous surveillance towers have been used on the U.S.–Mexico border to detect and track migrants, as part of DHS programs. This has drawn criticism from immigrant rights groups and academics who argue such systems dehumanize migrants and enable policies that align with authoritarian nationalism.
Anduril is privately funded (by VC firms like Founders Fund) but markets and sells directly to governments and military agencies, without the typical government R&D cycle. It builds weapons and surveillance systems first, then offers them to the state. This “build first, ask later” model can lead to unchecked corporate influence over the military-industrial complex, which some critics argue is a step toward a techno-authoritarian fascist regime.
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey was ousted from Oculus after it was revealed he funded a pro-Trump meme organization (Nimble America) known for spreading far-right content during the 2016 election. While this doesn’t make the company fascist, it raises concerns for critics about the political leanings of its leadership and how those ideologies could influence product deployment.
Anduril is deeply involved in developing autonomous weapon systems, like the ALTIUS-600M loitering munition. Critics warn that the use of AI to identify and kill targets without human input could lead to violations of international law and facilitate mass violence or authoritarian control. Anduril’s heavy investment in such systems leads some to see it as advancing a dystopian militarized fascist future.
Still if Im going to give my time I will go copyleft.
Also NEVER accept a Contributor Agreement License (CAL)
Which allows the devs to also publish a dual licensed or closed source version.
If you’re not going to address the contents then I’m putting you on my blocklist
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:
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.
Security best practices assume that any installed kernel-level driver is capable of full system access, including:
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:
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:
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.
disconnect the glass fiber that is flashing heinous light into my house and be happy with whatever still lives
Must we abandon art for it has been poisonned ?
So isn’t that tantamount to letting the ghouls purchase culture away from us ?
500 years into the future the only thing we’ll be playing is offline games from 1984-2014
What a sad ending for humans !
Will you do retain this attitude when all of culture has been put behind the dignity-wall and requires a neuralink brainchip for digital rights management purposes ?
What will you do when the last DRM unencumbered piece of entertainment is playing with a bunch of rocks and sticks ?
The justification is simple, I don’t see the confusion, they want absolute power and for all alternatives to wither and die ? What is there not to understand ?
How do you play Battlefield 1 on TAILS ?
Well the original title is “Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion” Which only points to “wow this is large exchange of capital”
And the text of the article is just investor-centric propaganda like
"PIF, which was currently the largest insider stakeholder in Electronic Arts, will be rolling over its existing 9.9% investment in the company. "
or meaningless puff like
“The IPO came seven years after EA was founded by former Apple employee William “Trip” Hawkins, who began playing analog versions of baseball and football made by “Strat-O-Matic” as a teenager during the 1960s”
Ultimately concluding with “By going private, EA will be able to retool operations without worrying about market reactions.”
“Hickey is unsure if the transaction is in shareholders’ best interest.”
“The financial backing and resources of the investor consortium should enable EA to increase its focus on long-term growth opportunities that may have been viewed as too risky or expensive as a public company,”
In other words no mention whatsoever of the ethical, cultural consideration nor even touching of the largest stakeholders in the transaction, the IP License Holders and their interest in allowing a foreign enemy nation administrative access to their computer kernel beyond their own user privileges.
This is nothing less than dereliction of duty by this “apnews” company, obviously misdirecting the attention of the reader and quieting their non-sense inapplicable fears such as return on investment levels for the C-Suite and the interest of “Freedom Capital Markets”.
These rootless bugpersons are colonizing our attention, spamming their virulent thoughts to distracts us from real, imminent dangers while our hostile leaders are selling us out to the highest bidder, instead of being lined up against a brick wall next to a deep communal ditch.
I use windows 10 and debian 13 on proxmox 9 !
? I see this another post in the community with the same article
No, that post you mention, was posted 2 hours ago
my post https://lemmy.ml/post/36863093/21361452
Was posted 5 hours ago and came first
Certainly, the true reason of the deletion is that my title was too evocative of the underlying consequences of this purchase.
Rather than the establishment-spun neutral titled crafted my the mind washing specialists at the pseudo-journalistic outfit of “apnews”
Who did not seek to cause trouble for shareholders.
I’m sure if pushed the moderators would have rules-based legalese with completely above board reasonnable reasons for the deletion of my post, it’s not even worth asking what they were. they even have catch-all overbroad rules for this exact purpose anyway. We live under the constant crush of censorship even in these nominally decentralized spaces.
A great fire is well over due.
They want you to use Oracle ZFS instead, they have a lot of money riding on this.
Everyone knows Apple said they would never do that and that one time defied the FBI about it. Are you saying Tim Cook would just lie let a false impression stand ?