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Cake day: June 25th, 2023
  • CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.ml•India opposition accuses govt of trying to hack lawmakers' iPhones | Reuters
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    1 year ago

    Not India, but somewhat relevant:

    It's been confirmed that the Egyptian government recently carried out a targeted attack taking advantage of a 0-day on a presidential candidate's phone: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-the-iphone-of-a-presidential-candidate-in-egypt-got-hacked-for-the-2nd-time (Edit: Link was pointing to second page of the article; changed to first page)

    Related discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816

    Also this report from Google's TAG: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/0-days-exploited-by-commercial-surveillance-vendor-in-egypt/

  • CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
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    1 year ago

    Disco Elysium was full of such moments for me. Here's one:

    You spend a lot of time in the game basically talking to yourself and your inner voices, and one of these voices is volition. If you put enough points into it, it'll chime in when you're having an identity crisis or struggling to keep yourself together and it'll try to cheer you up and keep you going. At the end of Day 1 in the game you, an amnesiac cop, stand on a balcony in an impoverished district reflecting on the day's events and trying to make sense of the reality you've woken up into with barely any of your memories intact. If you pass a volition check, it'll say the following line:

    "No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive."

    This line in combination with the somewhat retro Euro setting, the faint lighting, and the sombre-yet-somewhat-upbeat music was very powerful. The image it painted was quite relatable for me. I just sat there for a minute staring at the scene and soaking it all in. Even though this is a predominantly text-based game with barely any cinematics/animations, I felt a level of immersion I had rarely, if ever, experienced before.

    Oh, look at that. Someone actually made a volition compilation. 😀 This video will give you a better idea of what I'm describing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSAbyGlij0 Minor spoilers alert!