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Biometrie-Deal mit den USA: EU-Rat ebnet Weg für weitreichenden Datenaustausch
Die EU-Staaten haben grünes Licht für Verhandlungen über ein Rahmenabkommen mit den USA gegeben, das den Zugriff auf biometrische Polizeidaten regeln soll.

Remember Decency? – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/12/18/remember-decency/

Remember Firefox OS? Of course you don't.
Well, they tried to do "for mobile what we did for the web" and utterly failed—while neglecting their core product.
Now they’re all in on “doing for AI what we did for the web”.

Remember that time I chopped down a Raspberry Pi Pico and it still worked fine? (I mean, with less GPIO pins, but still.)
#diy #maker #electronics

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
#trump #mbs #politics

Training cannot correct for deficiencies resulting from a lack of vetting.
Remember what federal LEOs are normally screened for (CARLA F. BAD):
Character
Associates
Reputation
Loyalty
Ability
Finances
Bias
Alcohol/Addictions
Drugs
ICE is not being vetted against any of these.
Shut it down.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)
No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

"I remember somebody jokingly suggesting that I challenge Elon Musk to a fight (this was during his and Mark Zuckerberg’s martial arts feud), and quietly thinking to myself, I am literally not paid enough for that" -- @…
Happy retirement, Eugen!

My next chapter with Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.

I just checked my CD player to see if it had a ‘year in review’ feature and then I remembered I bought it before the turn of the century and the only reason the lid stays closed is because I balance a book on it.
I guess I could go by the CDs piled next to it.

I remember a friend who worked at a company that made a popular browser, and complained that I didn't have any "skin in the game" when I constantly complained about the browser the company was building.
Great guy, but I could not accept "be quiet, you are not part of this" when I am a browser user, web user, former-web developer (1995-2010) and just a person who gives a shit about privacy, security, and enshittification in general.

I remember when I used to post CloudFail™ all the time... I guess I need to bring that back!