@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/
@benb@osintua.eu
@heiseonline@social.heise.deTikTok unterzeichnet Deal zum Verkauf von Anteilen der US-Tochter an Investoren
Um eine Sperre in den USA zu vermeiden, verkauft TikTok etliche Anteile der US-Tochter an US-amerikanische und internationale Investoren. Das ist nun bestätigt.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A look at iMessage in iOS 14.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-imessage-in-ios-14.html
saved 2021-01-31
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAdvies sourcing IT-Infrastructuur, SVB
#AcICT
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
@noellabo@fedibird.com重いの直していくよー #fedibird #fedibird_info #fedibird_watch
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWe desperately need to figure out how to flip this: how to lift up the creators of wonderful things, instead of rewarding whoever can acquire power over their creations.
I don’t think we know how to do this. There’s a vast spectrum of schemes for fixing this, ranging from capitalist versions of “intellectual property” to Marxist “just end capitalism” notions to various versions of “easy, society should just be different.” I find them all lacking, both in theory and in practice. This is a problem that’s existed for millennia, not decades, and I’m not convinced we have a clear solution.
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@pre@boing.worldAdded a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Track Star, a YouTube music quiz show that has become a stop on the celebrity promo trail and has started creating documentary-style music features (Jessica M. Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/music/track-star-youtub…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s takeover of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
reached its inevitable apogee on Thursday afternoon
when it was announced that the center’s board of trustees had voted to rename it
the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Even though Mr. Trump had already been calling it that for months in trollish posts online,
he acted shocked that his handpicked board had thought to do this for him.
Trump had called into a meeting of the board, which is no…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… just keep doubling down, it will click after a few years
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUnprecedented errors are eroding the credibility of Trump's Justice Department (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/unprecedented-errors-are-eroding-credibility-trumps-justice-department-2025-12-17/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p12#a251217p12
@servelan@newsie.socialHomeland Security helps Trump donor make bank on deportation scheme
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/17/2358878/-Homeland-Security-helps-Trump-donor-make-bank-on-deportation-scheme
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDo enixes come in any other shapes? I've only ever seen square ones.
@luca@social.luca.run🎶 I Am Mad by Aphty Khéa https://aphtykhea.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-mad
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI 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.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgM'enfin! On a finalement un budget!
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/vaud/2025/article/budget-2026-de-l-etat-de-vaud-approuve-apres-36-heures-de-debats-intenses-29093806.html
@mela@zusammenkunft.netStelle fasziniert fest: Meine US-Rollenspielbubble kennt mehr Trabbi-Witze als ich.
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialAusflug zu den Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Freiburg - hat sich gelohnt, auf den etwas verspäteten Cem Özdemir zu warten (launige Grundsatzrede zu green economy) - und danach hat es sich gelohnt, zu bleiben und das Panel mitzunehmen, das sich an der Schnittmenge Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung ausgetobt hat (wobei letzteres, auch in der ‚KI‘-Ausprägung, für meinen Geschmack etwas zu viel Raum bekam).
@malik@Mastodon.SocialStill funny.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaI too am a real amiable sort of freak
@crell@phpc.socialGame I'd like to see rebooted with modern hardware and VR support: Descent.
Imagine that on a PS5 with VR2 headset.
#Gaming
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzTitan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean: #Titan May Not Have Global Ocean: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/saturn/saturn-moons/titan/nasa-study-suggests-saturns-moon-titan-may-not-have-global-ocean/
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@scott@carfree.cityincredible things happening in this world (derogatory)
@ladefuchs@electroverse.tech🆓⚡ Kostenlos Schnellladen – jetzt nutzen!
#Fastned schenkt euch kostenloses Schnellladen bis Weihnachten 🎄
📍 Neue Fastned-Station Werl-Büderich (A44 / A445, östlich von Dortmund)
🔌 12 Ultra-Fast-Charger
⚡ 300 km in ca. 10 Minuten
🥖 Edeka & Bäckerei direkt dabei
⏰ Aktion läuft nur bis Donnerstag nächster Woche – also ran an die Säule, solange’s gratis ist 😎…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,119 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.84 %
@fortune@social.linux.pizza<Joy> that's a Kludge(TM)
<knghtbrd> It Works(tm)
<Joy> AIX works(TM)
<knghtbrd> no it doesn't
<knghtbrd> =>
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMet Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels
@der_raddler@dresden.network
@stefan@gardenstate.socialFireworks
Waterworks
Earthworks
Windworks
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialYou know, when you think about it, Congress already authorized this war, by fucking giving away every single bit of power, preemptively even! Hope the White House sends everyone a fucking commemorative baseball cap
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/busines
@benb@osintua.euRussia is dehumanizing Europe – dangerous narratives of Kremlin propaganda: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/russia-is-dehumanizing-europe-dangerous.html
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @noellabo@fedibird.com私のやってる二つのMisskeyサーバのうち、ローカルコミュニティ系ののえすきーで生まれた子、のえすきーちゃん。めっちゃ偉業。
QT: https://misskey.noellabo.jp/notes/age4csijln
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
/end
@servelan@newsie.socialFani Willis Calls Trump and Allies ‘Criminals’ in Hearing Before Georgia Senate Committee - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/fani-willis-georgia-senate-hearing-trump.html
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyFamiliar story: Cost estimate for the first 6 new #nuclear reactors in France up by 40% in three years. And that's 13 years before the first one would be completed (not accounting for delays).
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnyone using UTM/QEMU with a NT 3.51 VM?
I’m looking for correct network settings. It detects NE2000 ISA and assigns an IP but I can’t ping anything.
UTM mentions to set IRQ to 9 but that’s not an option I see (it’s set to 2).
Mainly I want to access a FTP server on the host computer to transfer files.
👉 I know how to use search engines, therefore please only make suggestions if you are personally familiar with this, thank you. 👈
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI might be the minority here but I feel like if Firefox shipped with AI shit enabled but a huge "DISABLE AI" button you could press to turn it off... I might be okay with that.
If the alternative is (almost) every other browser having AI and no way to turn it off, is a "DISABLE AI" button a win?
It would let the people who care disable it. People who don't care could also disable it, we just need to tell them how and why they should.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comFor Hegseth, There Is One Boat Strike He Doesn't Want the Public to See (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/hegseth-boat-strike-video.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p140#a251217p140
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…
@cdarwin@c.imI feel awful for our expert civil servants who faithfully served our country only to be fired by unqualified, uncaring, irresponsible men who couldn't even make it one year doing government work.
Looking at you Elon and retiring FBI director Dan Bongino.
https://bsky.app/profile/amandacar…
@benb@osintua.euPutin calls European leaders 'piglets,' declares war goals will be met 'unconditionally': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/putin-calls-european-leaders-piglets.html
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
PCIe 6 overview.
https://pcisig.com/blog/evolution-pci-express-specification-its-sixth-generation-third-decade-and-still-going-strong
saved 2022-01-13
@crell@phpc.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIonospheric gradient estimation using ground-based GEO observations for monitoring multi-scale ionospheric dynamics: #Ionosphere in motion - a new way to track space weather in real time: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110143
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,140 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.83 %
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@heiseonline@social.heise.deChatGPT Images: OpenAI stellt neues Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vor
OpenAI hat das neue Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vorgestellt. Es soll schneller und präziser arbeiten und ist wohl die Antwort auf Googles Nano Banana.
@stefan@gardenstate.social5 hours in to Octopath Traveler I'm medium on the game. Not bad but not grabbing me yet.
Started with Tressa was good. Then went to Cyrus and the last boss was super hard.
Really need these characters to start interacting but doing these starter stories seems to not have any which makes sense but is annoying.
#videogames
@noellabo@fedibird.comよくわからんけど、探している人向けにあげておきますね。
QT: https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/115285536695435253
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube says it will no longer give data to US Billboard charts after January 16, saying Billboard's ranking formula doesn't count ad-supported streams fairly (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/yout
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
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@servelan@newsie.socialBondi beach shows IS is taking advantage of a new kind of terrorist
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/the-islamic-state-is-taking-advantage-of-a-new-kind-of-terrorist
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAlmost the shortest day here at 52 degrees North, but the sun did sort of show up on my morning bicycle commute!
@benb@osintua.euSlovakia’s intelligence service under Gašpar: a veteran warns of politicization, institutional decline, and ignored Russian threats: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/slovakias-intelligence-service-under-gapar.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCircana: US game console spending fell 27% in November to $695M, the lowest in the pivotal month for holiday shopping since 2005, after a tough year for makers (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialReminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Attacks on Rob Reiner and Others Characterize an Uninhibited 2nd Term (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/politics/trump-insults-second-term.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p127#a251218p127
@cdarwin@c.imRep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin’s Third District
wants you to think he is a tough guy.
He wears his Navy SEAL Trident like a shield, using his past service to deflect from the fact that he is a traitor to this country and tried to overthrow a democratically elected government on January 6th, 2021.
Derrick Van Orden is not a tough guy. He is a thug. And his race should be the number one target in Wisconsin.
Over the next year, we must strip away the costume and sh…
@crell@phpc.social @fortune@social.linux.pizzaÉ impossível suicidar-se parando a respiração.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI am in too many meetings where people talk about the number of WAPs we have and no one laughs.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
EMI spikes from gas lift chairs can cause display interference.
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/738618-display-intermittently-blanking-flickering-or-los
saved 2020…
@noellabo@fedibird.comFediverseサーバ「俺の屍を越えてゆけ」
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomething that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
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@benb@osintua.eu'Irreparable loss' — Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter crew killed in combat mission, brigade says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/irreparable-loss-ukrainian-mi-helicopter.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: "My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see" (Shane O'Neill/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon's AGI team lead Rohit Prasad is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-ai-ch
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Rejects Measure to Bar Strikes Inside Venezuela (Robert Jimison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-venezuela-house-vote.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p142#a251217p142
@cdarwin@c.imHouse Republicans on Wednesday
defeated a pair of war powers resolutions
aimed at reining in Donald Trump’s airstrikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea
and Pacific Ocean
and his increasingly aggressive provocations that critics fear are leading to a war on Venezuela
htt…
@noellabo@fedibird.comうびびび
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaSuicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The missing datacenter OS.
http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-missing-os.html
saved 2020-09-16 https://
@servelan@newsie.social"Republicans are supposed to deflect attention away from any mentions of Trump and instead focus on Democrats’ handling of the Epstein probe.”
Leaked Republican memo reveals GOP's strategy ahead of Epstein files release: CNN - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/republican-memo-trump-epstein/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHonda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/chip-s…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe one thing that does seem clear to me is that this is deeply entangled with the ultra-concentration of wealth and power, something which is both a cause •and• an effect of creators not sharing properly in the rewards of their creations.
If you talk to me about antitrust law with teeth or ending regulatory capture or a wealth tax, well, I don’t know how we get there — but you have my attention.
/end
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Republicans Press Jack Smith Over Investigations Into Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/jack-smith-trump-prosecutions-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p141#a251217p141
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaWhen you're in command, command.
-- Admiral Nimitz
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ll just say this: For the very most part, the systems of our society do not reward creators. They reward people who have power over what is created.
A deep part of our society’s mythology is that we reward people with great ideas, people who make great things — and therefore those who are rewarded must somehow be great.
That is false. If you see someone rewarded, the most likely explanation is that they had power to reap rewards.
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@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump and his top advisers have set aggressive goals for deporting historic numbers of immigrants.
But “the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History,” as Trump described it, requires officers — lots of them.
Far more, it turns out, than Immigration and Customs Enforcement has on staff.
So the administration is shifting tens of thousands of personnel from other federal agencies to help ICE,
-- raising concerns that other law enforcement…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMAGA infighting erupts at Turning Point USA Conference (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/maga-infighting-erupts-at-day-one-of-turning-point-usa-conference-00699665
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p6#a251219p6
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere’s a lot to be said about that story beyond just “Spotify sucks:” how internships can be exploitative, how creators in general do not receive (and historically long have not received) proper compensation for their own work, how orgs especially treat women and especially Black women as disposable free labor. Details left as an exercise for the reader.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comAmerican Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/17/aap-hhs-funding-rfk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p99#a251217p99
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVought says National Center for Atmospheric Research will be dismantled (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-ncar-dismantled-00694685
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p52#a251217p52
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Junior Congressman Who's Pushing Republicans on Epstein (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/politics/robert-garcia-epstein.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p8#a251219p8
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump pauses green card lottery program after Brown University, MIT shootings (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/trump-green-card-lottery-visa-brown-university-mit-shootings
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p7#a251219p7
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist (Scott Lincicome/The Dispatch)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/the-year-america-went-kinda-socialist/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p137#a251217p137
