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The original was posted on /r/steamdeals by /u/Nice_Ad2555 on 2025-11-24 06:43:52+00:00.

While re-listening to Bitches Brew tonight it occurred to me, there's never been anything that sounds quite like it since, and there never will be again.

What are your favorite unicorn albums?

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Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.

Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the "right to repair" law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.

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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/9210

Gunmen have attacked a Catholic boarding school in Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 schoolchildren along with 12 teachers.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Friday that the attack and mass abduction occurred at St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution located in the Papiri community of the Agwara local government area.

Attackers seized 215 pupils and students as well as 12 teachers, said Daniel Atori, a spokesperson for the Niger state chapter of CAN.

“I just got back to the village tonight after I visited the school where I also met with parents,” Atori said in a statement, quoting Reverend Bulus Dauwa, the CAN chairman in Niger.

The statement added that the association is working “to ensure our children’s safe return.”

The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora stated that a security staffer was “badly shot” during the attack.

Authorities described St. Mary’s as a secondary school, which in Nigeria typically serves children between the ages of 12 and 17.

The Niger State Police Command said the kidnappings took place in the early hours of the day and that military and security forces have since been deployed to the region.

A report released by the secretary to the Niger state government said the abduction occurred despite earlier intelligence warnings of heightened threats.

“Regrettably, St. Mary’s School proceeded to reopen and resume academic activities without notifying or seeking clearance from the state government, thereby exposing pupils and the staff to avoidable risk,” it read.

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Basically nothing worth noting has changed, just a bit different layout.

These big companies prolly just got nothing to do but they have to give their people some work I guess. This is not something that's happening at normal companies, it's just pointless to burn money changing ordinary aesthetics to a bit different ordinary aesthetics.

And it's not a small change either, the whole app now follows that slightly tweaked design, a lot of time and effort must've been put just to provide something that provides absolutely nothing of value.

The Mayor of London has resisted calls to ban adverts promoting fossil fuels and frequent flights on the TfL network saying national guidance is needed before that can happen.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30590050

• European governments are pushing to delay and weaken the EU Deforestation Regulation, backing a one-year postponement to 2026 and major reductions in due-diligence requirements.
• The political shift is driven largely by Germany and supported by France, despite earlier European Commission rollbacks and opposition from only a few member states.
• Civil society groups warn that further delays would gut the law, punish early-compliant companies, and undermine the EU’s regulatory credibility.
• At COP30, the EU’s silence on deforestation has fueled accusations of hypocrisy as advocates say weakening the EUDR would have severe consequences for tropical forests.
• This story has been updated to include additional comments from Andi Muttaqien, executive director of Satya Bumi, on the implications of a potential EUDR delay for Indonesia.

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Slovenians voted on Sunday to suspend a new law legalising assisted dying after opponents forced a referendum. With nearly all ballots counted, about 53% rejected the measure and 47% backed it, delaying its implementation for at least a year, election authorities said.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251123-slovenia-assisted-dying-law-referendum

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I think:

• good stapler
• goos 3-hole punch
• zippered binders
• highlighters
• candles
• tea set
• mini zen sand garden sandbox
• newtons cradle
• electric kettle
• Paper shredder
• adjustable phone stand
• phone dock with qi charging and bluetooth audio and usb ports to charge hub
• portable speaker/sound system
• everything cordless
• external hard drive loaded with shows and music and tools

Writeup from 2022 that I assume is mostly still valid. TLDR:

1. Mainstream Linux is less secure than macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS. (Elsewhere: "[iOS/Android] were designed with security as a foundational component. They were built with sandboxing, verified boot, modern exploit mitigations and more from the start. As such, they are far more locked down than other platforms and significantly more resistant to attacks.")
2. Move as much activity outside the core maximum privilege OS as possible.
3. OP doesn't mention immutable OS, but I assume they help a lot.
4. Create a threat model and use it to guide your time and money investments in secure computing.

Once you have hardened the system as much as you can, you should follow good privacy and security practices:

1. Disable or remove things you don't need to minimise attack surface.
2. Stay updated. Configure a cron job or init script to update your system daily.
3. Don't leak any information about you or your system, no matter how minor it may seem.
4. Follow general security and privacy advice.

It's a hot summer afternoon. I'm sitting down on a hot afternoon, with a burger, and a cold beer.

What I'm looking for is something to replace that cold beer with. I want it to be crisp and fresh, but also not sweet. I love tart and bitter flavours. Unfortunately, my options are either cold and sweet, cold and alcoholic or hot and non sweet.

So threadiverse, what alternatives am I missing?

Tereré is great, but it's a bit of a pain to source in Australia. What else is there?