The UK went from “we need to stop kids from watching porn” to actual dystopian mass surveillance in the span of two years
Digital ID is the slipperiest slope of all time
Here's:
•A game that's been delisted in favour of a "remaster"
•2 games that can only be bought in expensive bundles to make sure people buy the new versions
•A game that was outright replaced by its sequel
Returned that desk I've spent like 10 hours building on stream. Some witch had to've cursed me. Everything was sliding out of the box every five seconds. While walking up to the building Never Gonna Give You Up was blasting outside. Felt like some fake reddit karma farming post.
Yeah, so pretty much, like, there is this really sketchy company in Israel named "Paragon". Paragon sells a "product" called GRAPHITE.
Let me explain the background and why this is very silly.
GRAPHITE spyware which allows "customers" to remotely access peoples cell phones and monitor their instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp
It is spyware. It is sometimes called Mercenary Spyware because it is primarily used by governments to spy on political enemies, journalists, and activists.
Very little is known about Paragon, GRAPHITE, and their "customers". However, it was publicly noted by the Trump administration in January, 2025, to be purchased by the United States government and to be used to aid ICE.
Furthermore, in September 2025 the Trump administration noted the usage of Graphite to aid the United States against "domestic terrorist organizations" such as "ANTIFA".
ICE acting director Todd Lyons noted using GRAPHITE to monitor anti-ICE protestors to track "ringleaders and professional agitators".
Citizen Lab and other civil rights organizations have documented the usage of GRAPHITE against individuals in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, Singapore and (unsurprisingly) the United States. It is believed the Canadian government actively uses GRAPHITE in Ontario.
Okay, so why does all of this matter? Yeah, it's super fucked up. But today representatives from Paragon accidentally leaked GRAPHITE screenshots ... ON LINKEDIN. Dawg, that image in the background IS GOVERNMENT FUCKING SPYWARE
It shows phone numbers in Czechia, apps, accounts, media on the phone, "interception status", and phone numbers extracted. THEY LEAKED IT BY ACCIDENT ON LINKEDIN WHILE TAKING SELFIES
Discord has been caught lying.
Discord caught ditching its current age verification provider for Persona after bypasses appeared everywhere.
They promised "facial scans never leave your device" and no uploads, but now they send your IDs and data to a third-party company.
It’s very funny that people are still paranoid about Chinese spyware (in RAM, of all things!) when American tech conglomerates get caught actively selling your data like once a week
@discord throwback to when Discord banned and sent a c&d to someone for making a safety bot and claimed child predators/degenerates have "protected characteristics"
In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the Dragon Driftway track takes place on a giant dragon based on Gobblegut from Super Mario Galaxy 2. The full dragon is never seen in-game all at once. Here is the track model with everything but the dragon removed.
NEXT WEEK starting SATURDAY this non-gaming twitch channel (me) will be hosting a week-long competition collab in modded minecraft, between TECH STREAMERS and GAMERS
if you are a streamer who would like to join in the fun, leave a comment below! there's some spots left in the whitelist, and it's a join-as-you-want kinda thing! you can play the whole week, or just a day or two.
the winner will be determined by which team gets the most "achievements" on a point board, ranging from simple vanilla builds to tricky modded challenges. the winning team gets bragging rights and a celebratory group photo art!
It should be a good time, hope to see you guys there!
This is a nightmare for testing engineers
Here is a classic joke which describes the situation:
A testing Engineer walks into a bar.
Orders a beer.
Orders 0 beers.
Orders 99999999999 beers.
Orders a lizard.
Orders -1 beers.
Orders a ueicbksjdhd.
Everything worked as expected.
The first real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is.
The bar bursts into flames.
Yesterday evening someone leaked PlaySation 5 ROM keys online. Emulation nerds are going schizo because this could mean we have PlayStation 5 emulation technology, ability to run non-PlayStation 5 games, etc.
tl;dr Sony executives on New Years eve