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Guild Wars Reforged was announced today by ArenaNet to arrive on December 3, and it will be Steam Deck Verified and optimised for Valve's handheld.

From the announcement: "We believe that even with all the advancements and innovations of the last two decades, Guild Wars has a lot to offer: an enchanted world of limitless adventure, a deep and flexible skill-based combat system, PvE and PvP challenges of all types, and more. Guild Wars Reforged begins with a series of updates to Guild Wars that will be completely free to existing players and make it easier than ever for new players to experience it all firsthand."

Poland will “never agree” to any EU legislation that would require instant messaging services such as Messenger, WhatsApp or Signal to monitor users for evidence of child abuse, the country’s digital affairs minister said.

Society Poland opposes mandatory EU ‘chat monitoring’ law to combat child abuse fot. TVP Maria Kamińska Edited by: Piotr Kononczuk 17.11.2025, 17:03 Photo: Envato/Kira_Yan, PAP/Radek Pietruszka Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said Poland would “never agree" to any mandatory scanning of private communications. Photo: Envato/Kira_Yan, PAP/Radek Pietruszka Poland will “never agree” to any EU legislation that would require instant messaging services such as Messenger, WhatsApp or Signal to monitor users for evidence of child abuse, the country’s digital affairs minister said.

Politics Under a revised version of the EU Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) regulation – approved for further work by an EU Council working group last week – instant messaging providers could voluntarily agree to scan users’ communications for child sexual abuse content.

This marks a watering down of an initial proposal – first presented in 2022 – which would have made message scanning mandatory for all platforms, including those offering end-to-end encryption designed to prevent unauthorized access to private communications.

The legislation has raised concerns over potential violations of privacy rights and has been repeatedly revised, so far failing to secure majority support among EU member states.

Commenting on the revised proposal, Poland’s Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, told state news agency PAP on Monday that his country would “never agree to any mandatory scanning", citing concerns over the privacy of communications.

“We are treating the search for a compromise on child protection as a priority and with great consideration,” he said.

“We want legislation that enables us to effectively combat paedophilia while at the same time ensuring the security of all citizens,” he added.

Gawkowski said the latest proposal – put forward by Denmark, which took over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland in July – aligns with the approach Warsaw advocated during its own presidency of the Council in the first half of 2025.

He also said his team will “monitor the issue” as talks progress, adding that the Polish government’s position would depend on the final draft regulation.

Continue reading - https://tvpworld.com/90062380/poland-against-compulsory-eu-messaging-scans-to-fight-child-abuse

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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have reacted with scepticism to the UN resolution authorising foreign governance and forces in the war-torn territory.

After more than two years of Israeli genocide, most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are internally displaced and lack access to basic necessities such as food, shelter, electricity and medical services.

Many had hoped the UN would help alleviate the devastating humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

However, the passing of the US-drafted UN Security Council resolution on Monday showed that the humanitarian needs of the population are still not the top priority, said resident Abu Malek Jerjawi.

“The Security Council should have prioritised reconstruction and the urgent expansion of humanitarian relief,” Jerjawi told Middle East Eye.

I was originally used to "shutdown" when typing the shortcut in the search box and always accidentally typed that instead of "power off" after switching from GNOME to KDE. (gnome I believe called it shutdown). I eventually trained myself to type "power off" instead.

Now, with the latest version of Plasma, they had the audacity to rename the shortcut to "shutdown", so now I always mistype "power off"! This would be fine if it showed up the option once you started typing (like it did before with "shutdown" I think), but the "Shutdown" shortcut now only shows up once you type the full "power off", what the heck! Typing just "Shut" already shows the option, and before, typing something like "pow" was enough to show the "power off" shortcut

Why did they change it from power off to shutdown, and did the change in how KDE handles searching make the "synonyms" of certain shortcuts require the full thing? (I remember a video talking about how Plasma 6.5 changed search so that results start to show when you type one character only, which was pretty neat. I guess that had a few side effects?)

Is it possible to rename the shortcut to "power off" again, or at least make it show up when I type "pow"? I'm sure it's possible in KDE.

Other than this (very) minor complaint as well as a few others I will not rant about today, KDE Plasma has been awesome and I really like being able to customize the themes way more than GNOME ever let me (I am currently running Catppuccin Macchiato + purple accent colour and have the "taskbar" on the top since I like having the clock up there, and it also means the tab bar in my browser is closer to the apps which is nice. No more going up and down! Also, the "Elisa" music player is really good, and themed as well which is very nice. Calendar apps were a problem in KDE, neither merkuro nor Korganizer could sync with my Radicale instance for whatever reason, and the GNOME calendar doesn't match in aesthetics and I also can't configure what calendars are shown as the settings takes inspiration from the iPhone's Camera app where it's all in the system settings of a GNOME that no longer is installed on my system. I ended up using Thunderbird for calendar stuff. Also, LibreOffice needed to be run in XWayland to avoid lag, which is weird)

The French government warns that in Europe, aviation agencies report between 200 and 500 in-air incidents per month. In 2024, the Air Transport Association (IATA) recorded one incident in every 395 flights.

As a result, France has published a decree in the Official Journal, which came into effect earlier this month (8 November) and has set up a specific database to allow French air carriers to report “harmful behaviour”.

ir passengers breaching the three main rules will now be subject to hefty fines which can reach €10,000 - or €20,000 in case of repeat offences.

This includes using an electronic or electrical device when its use has been prohibited during part or all of the flight, as well as obstructing the performance of the flight crew or the safety mission and refusing to comply with a safety instruction given by crew members.

In the most serious of cases, officials have confirmed that passengers could face boarding bans for a period of up to four years.

Minister of Transport Philippe Tabarot said that the safety of passengers and crew is the country’s “absolute priority”, describing disruptive behaviour on board aircraft as “unacceptable”.

“It jeopardises flight safety and compromises the working conditions of flight crews,” he added.

Earlier this year, Ryanair sued a passenger for €15,000 after the budget airline was forced to divert a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote to Portugal.

The plane had to remain in Porto overnight on 9 April 2024, and the airline had to provide 160 passengers with overnight hotel accommodation.

By MEE staff
Published date: 18 November 2025 21:54 GMT

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday announced that he is designating the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the Council on American Islamic Relations (Cair) - the largest civil liberties group for American Muslims - as both foreign terrorist organisations and transnational criminal organisations.

As a result, both groups would be barred "from purchasing or acquiring land" in the state of Texas, Abbott said.

The proclamation gives the state's attorney general leeway to sue the groups accordingly.

Of any kind. Commuting, road biking, touring, mountain biking etc.

Been a cyclist of various types for 20 years now. Never seems to be non-controversial. Even among other cyclists... many hate other types of cyclists. And now there is a lot of specific e-bike hate/controversy.

I don't get it man. What do you think?

IME assholes are assholes regardless of being on a bike or not.

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The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/papachels on 2025-11-19 16:33:36+00:00.

So I asked earlier about backing up the media files in my home lab, and thanks for the many who replied, I settled on sanoid / syncoid and has been running them for some time.

My setup:

pool1/data contains my media files pool2/data backup

I use sanoid to make periodic snapshots of pool1/data, and then runs

syncoid pool1/data pool2/data

to replicate the snapshots to pool2.

This works fine, except I noticed that a lot of data is being copied even though pool1 did not change much. And now I just noticed pool2 ran out of space some time ago, while pool1 is currently only half full (pool1 & pool2 are the same size).

~~Is it because snapshots are somehow deduplicated when created on pool1, but is fully transferred to pool2 when syncoid runs? Is there something I can do to lower the usage on the backup pool? Thanks.~~

EDIT: Oops, I did not set up pruning of old snapshots on pool2. I have now added "--delete-target-snapshots" to my syncoid job and will monitor the results.

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Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.

I need to create an Apple account since yesterday. At first I got the error message "Your account cannot be created at this time." right away. So I waited until the Cloudflare outage was over.

After that, I could submit the request, received codes via email and text message. But when I enter the code from the text message, the error message "Your account cannot be created at this time." appears again.

The service "Apple Account" is marked green on Apple's status page. The email address and phone number are working, as they both received the codes.

Takayasu vs Hakuoho, day 8, Nov 2025

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Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) – The EU executive proposed rolling back key AI and data privacy rules on Wednesday as part of a push to slash red tape and help Europe's high-tech sector catch up with global rivals.

The landmark EU tech rules have faced powerful pushback from the US administration under President Donald Trump -- but also from businesses and governments at home complaining they risk hampering growth.

Brussels denies bowing to outside pressure, but it has vowed to make businesses' lives easier in the 27-nation bloc -- and on Wednesday it unveiled proposals to loosen both its rules on artificial intelligence and data privacy.

Those include:

• giving companies more leeway to access datasets to train AI models like personal data when it is "for legitimate interests"

• giving companies extra time -- up to 16 months -- to apply 'high-risk' rules on AI

• in a plan many Europeans will welcome, Brussels wants to reduce the number of cookie banner pop-ups users see, which it says can be done without putting privacy at risk.

"We have talent, infrastructure, a large internal single market. But our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules," EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a statement.

After cheering the so-called "Brussels effect" whereby EU laws were seen as influencing jurisdictions around the world, European lawmakers and rights defenders increasingly fear the EU is withdrawing from its role as Big Tech's watchdog.

Campaigners from different groups including People vs Big Tech drove across Brussels on Wednesday with large billboards calling on EU chief Ursula von der Leyen to stand up to Trump and the tech sector, and defend the bloc's digital rules.

The commission says the plans will help European businesses catch up with American and Chinese rivals -- and reduce dependence on foreign tech giants.

For many EU states, the concern is that the focus on regulation has come at the expense of innovation -- although Brussels insists it remains committed to protecting European citizens' rights.

But experts say the EU lags behind the bigger economies for several reasons including its fragmented market and limited access to the financing needed to scale up.

The EU raced to pass its sweeping AI law that entered into force last year, but dozens of Europe's biggest companies -- including Airbus, Lufthansa and Mercedes-Benz -- called for a pause on the parts they said risked stifling innovation.

Brussels met them part of the way by agreeing to delay applying provisions on "high-risk" AI -- such as models that could endanger safety, health or citizens' fundamental rights.

With the proposed change on cookie banners, an EU official said the bloc wanted to address "fatigue" at the pop-ups seeking users' consent for tracking on websites, and "reduce the number of times" the windows appear.

The commission wants users to be able to indicate their consent with one click, and save cookie preferences through settings on browsers and operating systems.

Brussels has insisted European users' data privacy will be protected.

"It is essential that the European Union acts to deliver on simplification and competitiveness while also maintaining a high level of protection for the fundamental rights of individuals -- and this is precisely the balance this package strikes," EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath said.