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With surveillance capitalism reaching it’s peak in 2026/2027, is getting out the Web the only way for the privacy inclined user?

Will Gemini (or cousins) go the way of Linux? Or is it foverer condemned to go the way of Hurd

Microsoft is quietly raising Windows OEM licensing fees by up to 10%, adding to a RAM shortage already pushing Windows 11 PC prices higher.

I have found this website today, that is supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the EU. The linked sub section is about apps and tools that fall under these criteria:

• Open Source
• Non-Profit
• High privacy level, no monetisation of user data

It might not be a complete list but maybe someone finds it useful complementary to Privacy Guides and the like.

Maybe the rest of the website is also of use to some. It’s called “The Digital Citizenship Education Toolbox. Free & open educational materials on democracy, digitalisation & non-formal education.­”

Sauce: xcancel.com/ryousangataK/…/1716743018575974505

Lore: anilist.co/anime/6213/Toaru-Kagaku-no-Railgun

Homepage is a dashboard for all your services with plenty of plugins to have the services status displayed in one place

Anime from top left to bottom right:

• Gundam 00
• Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
• Gundam Build Divers
• Psycho Pass
• Gundam SEED
• Infinite Stratos
• Gundam Build Fighters
• Aldnoah.Zero
• Rent a Girlfriend

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Full title: Companies are now using your credit history, past-due accounts, browsing data, and social media accounts to figure out the absolute lowest salary you’ll accept. Algorithmic wage suppression is being weaponized against workers to destroy wages.

Grow Up Show: Himawari no Circus-dan, episode 7

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Back in June, RuneScape studio Jagex held its first live event outside the UK (and its biggest to date): Deadman All Stars, an Old School RuneScape PvP tournament. I had the chance to talk to OSRS creative director Kieren Charles at the event, and he explained his philosophy on running the 13 year-old fork of the 25 year-old MMO amid its new lease on life.

“The game’s bigger now than it was in 2007,” Charles said of RuneScape’s overall health, while OSRS is now older than RuneScape was when Old School began in 2013. Last August, Old School hit an all-time player count record eclipsing any era or version of the game, and Charles estimated upwards of one million active subscribers just for Old School.

Charles himself was part of the original RuneScape phenomenon, but as a player, one of the core mid-to-late millennial cohort that made the game ubiquitous in middle schools during the golden age of MMOs. “I grew up with the game,” Charles told me. “I was 14 in the school library playing RuneScape. I was just the one who never quit.”

But why choose the 2007 iteration of RuneScape as a starting point? The game first launched in 2001, and had already undergone major revisions like the “RuneScape 2” update in 2004. Charles joined the OSRS team a few years after it started, but looking back, he characterized the choice as “kind of arbitrary, but based on what players deemed the sort of golden [age].”

“Players actually wanted the 2006 version, but we didn’t have a copy of that version of the game,” revealed Jagex senior communications manager Danni Amos. “A [Jagex employee] found the 2007 server in their desk drawer, and we had to boot it up, see if it works.”

HDMod is a Spelunky 2 mod that lets you play through the roguelike platforming adventure of Spelunky HD. All of the original areas, entities, art and music have been lovingly remade with Spelunky 2’s style and heightened intensity, including the secret hard ending with the face-off against King Yama! Relive HD’s prologue, shortcut, and journal experience through a new story taking place on Earth after the events of Spelunky 2. Continue to challenge yourself with a brand-new post-game achievement system!

Mod page: spelunky.fyi/mods/m/hdmod/

Love me some spelunky

Does anyone else here participate in the selfhosting hobby without a formal IT related education or a career in a similar field? I’ve only had one or two programming courses as part of my university education, but it was only very basic Python and C. I’ve never formally learned how to use containers, version control or anything else. Sometimes I regret not pursuing an education in IT/programming because there are so many things I’d like to accomplish but can’t (for example if there’s a feature missing in some project, or to feel safe in my abilities to harden my servers and my network in order to expose services to the open internet).

Today’s game is Control. I’ve been wanting to pick this up and play it again for quite some time. I decided now was the perfect time for a second playthrough (along with finishing the DLCs).

I will admite i’ve spent quite a lot of time finagling the graphics though. I really wanted to try it with Raytracing as i hear it’s awesome with that and wanted to judge for myself. Unfortunately my RX 7600 XT just doesn’t seem up to the task unless i drop the scaling down low, and even then i still only get like 30 FPS at 720p and it’s all a messy smear. So not really worth it for me all just for some extra pretty rays.

I love getting into Remedy’s games too, and finding these references and inside jokes. For example The Neighbor of The Beast like right out of the gate. It reminds me of the logic behind noticing certain numbers as a pattern in real life, only hear it’s intentional. Almost like it’s the game gaslighting you if that makes sense.

Playing this is making me really miss Alan Wake 2’s Photomode as well. It was just a natural evolution. Here the controls are a lot less fine, such as the major F-Stops being like 0,5 > 0.7 > 1.0 > 4.0 > 5.7 > 8 > 16. I would love to have a F11 there. Legit love to default to that because 11 is such a nice number. There’s also just a lot less fine tuning for color grading and such.

I remember the game being short, so i got the the Telephone and decided that was a perfect point to stop for today. Especially because i gave the game another hour of play time than i should messing with Graphics and RT/FSR

Neko to Ryuu, episode 8

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I’ve just published a different kind of AYN Thor Lite feature, looking at why the lowest-spec Thor makes more sense in 2026 than it might have at launch. Back when this all started, AYN sent me the Thor Pro for review which clearly I loved and reviewed to high heavens, but I thought that with how things are at the moment (current cost-of-living conditions, the RAM crisis making prices skyrocket), the very base model makes more sense than ever. Mostly because the community surrounding the Thor has just grown and grown and grown, the things developers and makers have created are just incredible.

For any who don’t know, the AYN Thor is a dual screen retro gaming handheld, which is first and foremost an amazing way to emulate 3DS games, especially with the cost of original systems rising so much these last few years!

So instead of the whole specs and performance angle, I wanted to look at what has grown up around the hardware, and I was lucky enough to speak to, interview and quote a whole bunch of the people making it happen, some of them friends and some of them just so lovely to want to chat with me:

• Moth (lead developer of Cocoon)
• Nathan (lead developer of iiSU)
• PlayTranslate’s developer
• Camille LaVey (lead developer/creator of Eden)
• MithrilMods (behind amazing magnetic buttons/d-pads/grips on etsy)
• Kitsabble Creations (who created Pokémon-themed decal front skins for the AYN Thors, also on etsy)
• MagiGamer (whose custom-made buttons are the prettiest damn thing ever made)

Plus a few other community creators and accessory makers.

(Jiayu, one of the replacement button creators I chat to in this article, and her work!)

(as is tradition, my cat and my handheld of focus for the article)

I talked to them all about the software ecosystem, dual-screen development, Japanese games and translation, emulation on the Snapdragon 865, custom grips and controls, handmade buttons, skins, and all the other ways people have taken AYN’s hardware and made it their own. My focus for this whole article was how AYN released a near-perfect handheld, but the community around it has now taken it and run with it.

I hope some in here enjoy this, at least to hear from some of the people behind the programs and projects you might know and love :)

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Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo, episode 18

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Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.

There is no date of arrival for the motorola yet. I only read beginning of 2027. That could also be delayed. And if it is a phone with underwhelming specs, I wouldn’t want to buy it either. But buying a pixel now means not buying a motorola soon.

PayPal’s Honey browser extension is facing ongoing litigation over allegations that it interfered with affiliate attribution and redirected commissions from content creators. The case has now moved beyond the latest motion-to-dismiss stage. I broke down the alleged affiliate-ID replacement mechanism, Honey’s alleged stand-down behavior, the affiliate-network fallout, and what the June 2026 court ruling actually means.

Sourced from MegaLag’s part 3 update of honey video