@jake4480@c.imMy favorite 20 LPs of 2025: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2025
Tagging a bunch of you that have helped me out finding things this year or who have expressed interest - sorry if I missed you, there's a lot…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBald deutlich mehr Starts der Trägerrakete Ariane 6
Die Trägerrakete Ariane 6 soll deutlich häufiger ins All starten. Die Produktion wird hochgefahren, um ab 2027 zehn Missionen pro Jahr zu ermöglichen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M in illegal transactions (Miles J. Herszenhorn/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@timbray@cosocial.caHere’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.
@benb@osintua.euRussia, Vietnam concealing arms deals via joint energy profits to evade US sanctions, AP reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/russia-vietnam-concealing-arms-deals.html
@ErikUden@mastodon.deLooky here, America
What you done done---
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
Now your policemen
Let your mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.
You tell me that Hitler
Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons
From the Ku Klux Klan.
You tell me Mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont
That he had his start---
Cause everything that Hitler
And Mussolini do,
Negro…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII:
A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours«
Good article that clearly shows that only hashing alone is not yet data safe. That's where HMAC belongs at the SHA-2 min. but also not to save passwords and the same.
🤷 https://
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWhy would you fire a fox?
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe official Xubuntu website was compromised over the weekend (18/19 October 2025) briefly serving up Windows malware to users trying to download the distro.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/xubuntu-website-malware-hack
@robpike@hachyderm.ioAttention to detail is very important when pitching a product. Patriotism requires precision.
@noellabo@fedibird.comおはようございます（お昼たべよう）
@servelan@newsie.socialPortugal to recognise a Palestinian state | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/20/portugal-to-recognise-a-palestinian-state?traffic_source=rss
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe White House sends out a press release calling ABC News "a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network" and cataloging perceived offenses (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-abc-mary-bruce-attack-1236623924/
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io⭐
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgRussia’s latest big Ukraine offensive gains next to nothing, again 🎁
https://www.economist.com/interactive/europe/2025/10/17/russia-latest-big-ukraine-offensive-gains-next-to-nothing-again
From The Economist
@cdarwin@c.imMy name is Heather, and I was one of the very first hires for Barack Obama’s campaign.
I know how to win the tough fights — because I’ve lived them.
Now I’m leading North Star PAC to stop billionaire Jeffrey Yass and the MAGA machine from buying Pennsylvania’s courts.
If they succeed in the state’s Supreme Court retention election, they’ll rig the maps and lock us out of power for decades — just like they did in Texas.
But I can’t do this without you. While Yass and…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialI am so bad at writing flirting. Thankfully it doesn't have to be particularly smooth or anything for this story but still I keep struggling with this kind of exchange even though I think that dialogue is otherwise a strength of mine. How people pull this off in real life IN REAL TIME will forever be a mystery to me.
#amWriting
@scott@carfree.cityGood evening to everyone except this clown car of politicians trying to close the city's third most popular park (and apparently not talking to each other about it)
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-alan-wong-sunset-great-highway-ballot-mea…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe senators America searched for most in 2025 (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/bernie-sanders-most-google-searches-senators-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p116#a251219p116
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyWhile Trump is attacking the free press with all possible means, Dutch public news site @nos writes that he's "successfully reigning in American media"... https://nos.nl/l/2583235
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialCongress lacks the cajones to respond to this clear rejection of the authority of Congress to make laws.
The proper response would be impeachment and conviction of blondi bondi. But no, our Congress will just roll over and snore.
"Trump over-promises and under-delivers with heavily redacted Epstein cache"
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgHey @…:
Das mit dem KI-generierten Zeugs ist für ein Medium, dass sich der Wahrheit verschrieben hat, natürlich schon ganz grundsätzlich problematisch. Aber, was geht denn da unter
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeContinuing work on the PIC12F683 video. Ripped out all of the early rambling guesswork floorplan analysis I did on the top metal and replaced it with a much more in-depth floorplan discussion looking at the substrate-level floorplan.
Video is now just shy of an hour 20 in length and I still need to add:
* Quick intro to digital CMOS layout and standard cells (planning to film this tonight)
* Deep dive on SRAM
* Deep dive on flash
* Deep dive on fuses/configuration…
@bourgwick@heads.sociala feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cathe nose is kept warm by all the toebeans
#atlas #catsodon #catsofmastodon
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDonnerstag: Nvidia profitiert weiter von KI, Adobe übernimmt KI-Spezialisten
Nvidia-Wachstum dank KI Milliarden-Deal für Semrush Rundfunkreform trotz Koalitionskrise Intels Lehren aus Pentium-4-Flop #heiseshow u.a. zu Cloudflare
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z partner and a friend to JD Vance, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech (Julia Black/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/katherine-b…
@timbray@cosocial.caNobody should be allowed to get out of fifth grade without demonstrating their mastery of reply-all.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeThem: *holding a kitten* Do you want to see the rest of them in my unmarked van down that alley?
Me: Just who do you take me for!? Of course I want to see!!
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»DNS0 ist abgeschaltet. Ein Rückblick auf das kurze Leben des EU-finanzierten DNS-Resolvers.
DNS0 ist Geschichte. Betreiber war eine französische Non-Profit-Organisation, 2022 gegründet von Romain Cointepas und Olivier Poitrey.«
Das in Europa ein freier & offener DNS Dienst was wichtiges ist nimmt so gut wie niemensch ernst. Selbst IT-Techniker ist es mMn dem nicht wirklich bewusst.
🔌
@noellabo@fedibird.com@… CDNは、本来のサーバーの代わりにHTTPクライアントに応答するので、CDN側で保持しているサーバー証明書を使います。Cloudflareではこれをエッジ証明書と呼んでいます。
通常はCDNが自動生成したものが使われますが、私たちが登録してそれを使ってもらうこともできます。
ブラウザなどで証明書をみると、証明書の発行元がわかります。私は自分で発行した証明書としてLet's EncryptやZeroSSLの利用が…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFinally I’ll be able to organize my video tapes
@cdarwin@c.imThe Constitution was an attempt to solve the oldest political problem:
how to make liberty durable by making power difficult.
A system of government both sufficient to keep order,
but not so overbearing it snuffs out the rights of the people.
The principles behind its design
—divided authority, overlapping ambitions
—was drawn from centuries of failed experiments.
It was also intended to adapt,
to learn, to be amended as needed.
Repairi…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WordWeavers 19 Oct: How has the MC offended/angered an SC, even if inadvertently?
He almost cheated on her and tried to pass it off as a fidelity win.
@scott@carfree.citySays a lot that the Hayes Valley open space on land that was supposed to be affordable housing (Proxy/Parcel K) is apparently secure, with no politician threatening to build the housing anytime soon; but the Hayes Valley open space that closes 1 block of street two days a week is fighting for its life.
Save the @…!
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineEin KI-Modell des #KIT erfasst erstmals präzise den realen #Kältebedarf ganzer Städte anhand von Luftbildern.
In #Manhattan berechneten die Forschenden eine installierte
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746730662598273
FLOSS needs fewer corporations and more structures where the public (not only developers) can actually determine the path into the future.
FLOSS only means more than "Amazon and Microsoft ca…
@servelan@newsie.social"60 Minutes" Witkoff Kushner interview on Gaza deal takeaways
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/israel-gaza-hamas-cbs-60-minutes-witkoff-kushner
@benb@osintua.euEurope expels 700 Russian spies under diplomatic cover, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/europe-expels-russian-spies-under.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSeattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO (Paul Roberts/Seattle Times)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/nov/19/seattle-t…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://finimize.com/content/ransomware-snarls-muji-and-loft-online-orders-in-japan
Ransomware Snarls Muji And Loft Online Orders In Japan
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cayou know what 300GB means right? those aren't emails. It's not just pictures.
There are videos.
#sextrafficking #epstein
https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115749477951907653
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI've been railing about the need to restructure SCOTUS for rather a while now. (I've added a couple of URLs after the Guardian opinion link.)
Here is an opinion piece that says something similar.
It adds something that I missed - that SCOTUS and Congress are filled with people who think that if El Cheato goes away that his mess will also go away.
I don't think so. The maga-klan is too deeply embedded into our judiciary and administrative agencies. It's go…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de#heiseshow: Cloudflare-Ausfall, WhatsApp-Daten, Souveränitätsgipfel
In der #heiseshow: Cloudflare-Ausfall legt Teile des Internets lahm, Forscher finden offene WhatsApp-Metadaten und Merz trifft Macron beim Digitalgipfel.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/taiwan-s-top-a…
@timbray@cosocial.ca@… on dev.phanpy, I can't set "anyone can quote" it just switches back to "only you can quote". This a TBD?
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeAn artist and their helper
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialHere is the explanation of @… itself why it was down worldwide yesterday (again) and it styled a lot on the Internet.
»Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025:
On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflar's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic. […]«
☁️
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioEero, my chaos-monkey cat just broke my 1980s flamingo mug :(
Luckily these were mass-produced so it's easy to find a replacement on eBay
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats thought they could ride out the first Trump administration like it was any other Republican administration.
Events since should have disabused them of the possibility of doing it a second time
—as if January 6 did not happen,
as if the people who tried to destroy our government would not come back and be serious about finishing the job,
as if they actually hadn’t written it all down in a manifesto and published it.
The result is that, as In These Times…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746700098797838
(I also think Palantir is even worse but I would have expected OpenAI to be a bit more "popular".
Both employers are indefensible.)
@noellabo@fedibird.com積極的な公開、引用はいいんよ
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Says His Negative Media Coverage Is 'illegal' | AFP
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-jimmy-kimmel-brendan-carr/2025/09/19/id/1227155/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
@benb@osintua.euUkrainian delegation to visit US for peace talks on Dec. 19-20, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/ukrainian-delegation-to-visit-us.html
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caDo or die time!
Go #bluejays!!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/
@timbray@cosocial.caDeep in the primeval forest of, um, Burnaby, BC.
#Photography
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDas Herbstwetter in der Schweiz ist heute nach englischsprachigen Ortschaftsnamen benannt — auf @… die Fakten ;)
🌧️ https://www.openstreetmap.…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Studie: Live-Gesichtserkennung durch Polizei nur rechtswidrig möglich
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSocial media use is declining because all the big platforms are run by and kowtowing to the worst people.
Nobody (except Nazis) want to hang out at a Nazi bar that just randomly assigns people to you who yell at you that it's all the foreigners' fault; meanwhile you see fewer and fewer posts of, you know, your friends or interesting people you choose to follow.
Plus now it’s also full of AI slop.
Nobody wants that shit.
https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115396248154808214
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeBooby trap!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCounterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14% in the first 10 days of sales in the US and China; base iPhone 17 sales doubled over iPhone 16 in China (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgTransform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530
@servelan@newsie.socialRyan Walters’ Plan To Teach OK Students Election And COVID Conspiracies Put On Hold By State Supreme Court | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/19/ryan-walters-plan-to-teach-ok-students-election-and-covid-conspiracies-put-on-hold-by-state-supreme-court/
@cdarwin@c.imAn immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/chicago-south-shores-border-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-2…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @kubikpixel@chaos.social»KI überall — Windows 11 macht sich gerade noch unbeliebter als Windows 8:
Wir finden: Microsoft sollte erst einmal andere Baustellen in Windows 11 beenden, bevor durch KI-Unsinn weitere hinzukommen.«
Ich kritisiere Windoof so wie KI seit jeher und doch ist mensch immer wieder mal dazu verpflichtet es zu nutzen. Ich überlasse deren Kritik mal diesem verlinkten Artikel.
👉
@catsalad@infosec.exchange[trying to flirt] Are you toxoplasma gondii infect cat poop, because you're altering my behavior and are hard to ignore sitting in the corner
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWhich employer would you judge people more harshly for?
@servelan@newsie.socialBill Maher Voices Support For Jimmy Kimmel, Compares It To His ‘Politically Incorrect’ Cancellation: “ABC Stands For Always Be Caving”
https://deadline.com/2025/09/bill-maher-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-abc-real-time-1236550158/
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linkedin will auch Deine Daten für seine KI
https://www.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social100k most used passwords
These are the latest 100k most insecure used (hacked?) passwords. I wonder why at least a minimal regex the first hurdle can stand in the way of the attackers, i.e. apparently has not yet been widely implemented? Am I wrong, or are there reliable sources?
💥
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeADHD: I struggle with repetitive things
Autism: I struggle with new things
AuDHD: I struggle...
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWhen looking at what the western AI companies are doing my current view is:
- OpenAI is actively evil. There's no morals or anything. Just scamers trying anything to amass power and money
- Anthropic is has sniffed so much of its own farts that most of what they are doing is just writing fan fiction for their own models. They are not evil as much as they just need psychological help
- Mistral is yelling a lot of "we are European" which nobody hears cause who give…
@servelan@newsie.socialRoboSense Founder: One Problem With Elon Musk's Self-Driving Approach - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/robosense-steven-qiu-elon-musk-self-driving-lidar-camera-problem-2025-10
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
"Inakzeptabel": Über Warn-App Katwarn zum Singen des Pfalzlieds aufgerufen
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's market regulator opens a probe into Chengdu Kuaigou, a Kuaishou unit involved in livestream shopping, for suspected violations of e-commerce rules (Olivia Tam/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @tante@tldr.nettime.orgAnyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoMind, which is developing a non-invasive brain monitoring device with tech similar to Lidar, raised $60M led by Plural, bringing its total funding to $102.5M (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1f41a613-c97a-4725-8715-5dd3090f5287
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialUK online grocer Ocado's stock closed down 17.4% on November 18 after its US partner Kroger said it would close three automated warehouses in January 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
@heiseonline@social.heise.deStuttgart 21 wird nicht Ende 2026 eröffnet
Der Umbau des Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhofs ist eine der großen Dauerbaustellen der Bahn. Das wird auch noch eine Weile so bleiben.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time" (Stephen Wilmot/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at how China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies, and more (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/how-chin…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down major services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and Signal; AWS is investigating (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-o…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBlackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is "top of our list" when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/35d80b4d-eecd-424b-9350-8da138036d7e
@Techmeme@techhub.socialParis-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon rolls out Alexa on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/with-new-ale
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple's N1 chipset in the iPhone 17 lineup delivers up to 40% higher median Wi-Fi download and upload speeds globally vs. the Broadcom-based iPhone 16 lineup (Luke Kehoe/Ookla)
https://www.ookla.com/articles/apple-n1-2025
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: US officials are privately saying they might not levy semiconductor tariffs soon, as the Trump administration takes a more cautious approach with China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trumps-semiconductor-ta…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocuments: OpenAI has sold 700K ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M times in September, beating Copilot (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/school…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/alphabet-…
