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Cogweasel retweeted
I put together a video going over the most damning parts of the EU Kids Act. It would make playing unsupported games online in the EU illegal, no joke. This is way bigger than SKG, most of the industry seems to be sleeping on this.
youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nY…
Cogweasel retweeted
No! RIP Tim Curry. Star of Red Alert 3. “I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: space!”
Cogweasel retweeted
Lost for 33 years, we recovered the original abandoned development of Total Recall for the Commodore 64 in 2023.
It's a very different game from the version Ocean eventually released.
Cogweasel retweeted
Adobe Photoshop was released 36 years ago in 1990.
I was a really big fan and heavy user into the early 2000's, until they lost their way and started adding in subscription models. Gradually pushing away their user base, now making people pay to cancel, may have sealed their doom
Cogweasel retweeted
PLAYSTATION GOES DARK ON AUGUST 23
seven days. consoles off on purpose.
- august 23, 7:00 pm local -> august 30, 7:00 pm local
- no logins. no sessions. no purchases on any sony platform
- called by @DoesItPlay1
sony ends disc production for every new playstation game in january 2028.
a new release becomes a download, or a box with a code in it.
the petition is approaching 350,000 verified names.
sony's public reply, twenty-six days in: nothing.
so the community stopped asking politely.
engagement is the number sony leads with every quarter, ahead of hardware.
the published figure only samples the last month of a quarter.
the internal dashboards read every single day.
a week-shaped hole in late august lands on someone's desk long before
november does.
a petition needs sony to choose to read it.
an empty server counts itself.
#PSBlackout
going dark on the 23rd? reply with your timezone.
Cogweasel retweeted
The ECB is working on new Euro banknotes.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a complete lack of MSX computers in the currently proposed designs.
This is now fixed. Vote for #MSX Euro banknotes!
Cogweasel retweeted
This is pure artistry. The YT video shows the multiple stages through which this image went. So to cool see how it gets built up to the little details. #C64
youtube.com/watch?v=9AcBixZC…
Cogweasel retweeted
‼️ The European Commission has allowed a citizens' initiative demanding EU law keep digital ID and age verification voluntary, privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory for accessing online services.
The initiative called 'Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification' now needs 1 million signatures across at least 7 member states within 12 months. Once the target is hit, Brussels must formally answer, right as it rolls out the EU Digital Identity Wallet and pilots its age-verification app.
Cogweasel retweeted
‼️ LG monitors are silently installing adware on computers through an LG app because Windows allows to automatically fetch apps for connected devices with full system access.
Once an LG monitor is connected to a Windows PC, it triggers Windows Update to fetch the LG Monitor App Installer, an app whose store listing grants access to "All system resources," with no consent screen and McAfee trial ads following shortly after.
Microsoft's role deserves scrutiny too. The Windows feature was built for drivers and companion utilities, not for ad software with full-resource permissions.
The same behavior was found by YouTuber Gamers Nexus on monitors up to three years old, including ones already in use at its own office. LG has not publicly responded, and the first consent screen you ever see is the ad.
Cogweasel retweeted
YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU.
This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU.
@puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.
Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.
This makes it troublesome.
Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.
Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.
You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify.
Spotify link open.spotify.com/episode/51E…
Dysfunctional YouTube link youtube.com/watch?v=dGaQCcwn…
Cogweasel retweeted
A pull out poster I kept from Electronic Games magazine. Remember posters from magazines? I kept them all :)
Cogweasel retweeted
Visiting the @Arcade_Museum is as close as I’ll ever get to revisiting arcades as they were when I was growing up.
Aisles of games.
A mix of attract sounds, games in progress, & faint music over the speakers.
It’s always a special place to me.
Cogweasel retweeted
Germany's largest game archive closes, leaving 60,000 game files unaccounted for notebookcheck.net/Germany-s-…
Cogweasel retweeted
🚨 EVERY EUROPEAN NEEDS TO KNOW THIS:
The European Union is turning into an anti-democratic surveillance apparatus.
In March, the European Parliament REJECTED the extension of “Chat Control.”
So what did Brussels do?
While everybody is distracted from the World Cup, they furtively brought it back through a rarely used procedure and are trying again.
The goal is to allow private communications to be scanned under a derogation from normal ePrivacy protections.
They’ll have access to your private messages and your photos. And, as always, mass surveillance is being sold to you under the banner of “safety.”
The EU bureaucrats do not trust you.
They urgently want the infrastructure to surveil you.
And when its own Parliament votes the wrong way, the bureaucratic and anti-democratic machine simply finds another procedure and tries again.
The European Union is not protecting democracy.
It is becoming its enemy. And almost all CONSERVATIVES members of the parliament voted in favor of this Orwellian plan.
And now imagine a combination of governmental surveillance AND Palantir. SCARY!!!!
SHARE THIS. Europeans deserve to know what Brussels is doing to their privacy.
Cogweasel retweeted
Latest from Dead Hackers Society an Atari STe demo released at #Sommarhack2026. Very good effects. Full screen Plasma at 4m40s is pretty amazing on CRT
youtube.com/watch?v=ONy-PtGy…
Cogweasel retweeted
BREAKING:
The EU is planning to require a passport to access the internet.
And they want to block VPNs to enforce it.
"The new age verification system cannot be bypassed via VPN."
Read that again.
A digital passport. For the internet.
Enforced by blocking the tools that protect your privacy.
This is what the trajectory looks like.
- Cash banned above €10,000.
- Bitcoin requires ID above €1,000.
- Privacy coins banned.
- MiCA eliminating 90% of crypto firms.
And now internet access tied to your identity.
With VPN circumvention specifically blocked.
Every layer of digital privacy.
Being dismantled one regulation at a time.
While America debates zero capital gains on Bitcoin.
Europe is building a system where every click, every transaction, every website visit.
Is tied to your passport.
This is not consumer protection.
This is digital authoritarianism.
And they're not hiding it anymore.
Cogweasel retweeted
This guy bought Samsung’s 990 Pro 4 TB SSD when it was ~$330 and now Samsung REFUSES to replace it as the SSD now costs ~$950 due to the AI boom.
The SSD came with a 5-year warranty but started malfunctioning after just one year.
He sent Samsung evidence showing the drive was malfunctioning. Samsung rejected his claim, said it was working fine, and mailed it back to him.
When asked for a replacement, Samsung said the SSD was “out of stock” and couldn’t be replaced, offering only a refund of the original ~$330 purchase price.
The problem? The same SSD is currently IN STOCK and selling for around $950, so the refund wouldn’t even buy a replacement.
He’s now taking legal action against Samsung.
At this point, replacing the SSD would’ve probably been cheaper for Samsung than fighting the lawsuit. 😭
