Since the title gives nothing away:

This is an extensive article by Ed Zitron on how the technology that you’re required to interact with every day has become explicitly user hostile. It’s a 42 minute read, but IMO worth reading at least the first section.

Ed Zitron also has an excellent podcast on the topic of tech companies being awful called “Better Offline”

This is exactly what DMCA was made to do.

That kind of sucks, but it should only be for a dev release

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-data/-/blob/main/images/splash-log.md

Blinx: The time sweeper

Thanks for bringing that up, I played the shit out of Blinx 2 back when and had all but forgotten it.

Incidentally my first thought reading your comment was “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time”

Note to studios: there is no amount of potential, unrealised profit that makes it ethical to install malware on another person’s computer.

These guys are Canadian and I’ve always thought their tech seemed really creative and novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

After reading that whole article I feel no more enlightened.

They mentioned secure boot, is secure boot part of the exploit or does the exploit invalidate secure boot?

If it doesn’t fulfill the requirements it’s not any kind of solution

That’s a completely different statement

This article seems to have a bizarre assumption all the way through that the schools must use Microsoft 365.

Obviously Microsoft is failing morally and probably legally (what else is new), but the schools also have a moral and legal requirement to choose software which protects the rights of the children. Microsoft is sort of right in the way they surely didn’t mean; schools have the responsibility to not use Microsoft 365.

It’s a watermelon. It’s used as a symbol for Palestine due to it’s alignment with the colours of the flag

WD-40 leaves residue, it is not suitable for cleaning

Props for finally doing it, but a modding API was promised more than 10 years ago!