@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s funny how we had AI that can cure all diseases and solve all societal problems for years now and we still have diseases and the problems are only getting worse
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
@macandi@social.heise.de
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info[BLOG] Ranttime – Weißware: Anleitung vs. Realität https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/12/28/ranttime-weissware-anleitung-vs-realitaet/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump says U.S. will permanently pause migration from 'Third World Countries' | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-us-will-permanently-pause-migration-third-world-countries-2025-11-28/
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaMmmmmm-MMMMMM!! A plate of STEAMING PIECES of a PIG mixed with the
shreds of SEVERAL CHICKENS!! ... Oh BOY!! I'm about to swallow a
TORN-OFF section of a COW'S LEFT LEG soaked in COTTONSEED OIL and
SUGAR!! ... Let's see ... Next, I'll have the GROUND-UP flesh of CUTE,
BABY LAMBS fried in the MELTED, FATTY TISSUES from a warm-blooded
animal someone once PETTED!! ... YUM!! That was GOOD!! For DESSERT,
I'll have a TOFU BURGER with BEAN SPROU…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialThis might come in handy tomorrow morning.
Originally posted by @….
#infographics #winter
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI'm always amused when people online express their (valid!) frustration at technology or society by being like, "I'm going to go live in the woods."
Having spent too much time in the woods, I hope you enjoy lots of time doing nothing but staring at trees, and doing lots of driving to get supplies from the nearest town. Oh, and mosquitoes. Me, I'll take urban life and computers every time, even with the downsides. 🫣
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchangeShout out to Uptime Kuma. Just lovely. If you use BetterStack or UptimeRobot but want ot self-host your uptime monitor, check out Uptime Kuma
#HomeLab
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2020/dumbindent.html
saved 2020-06-15
@lindawoodrow@mastodon.socialThe dragonfruit are flowering! #permaculture #retrosuburbia
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzHistoric #LickObservatory closes to public following significant wind damage: https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/12/historic-lick-observatory-closes-to-public-following-significant-wind-damage/ - early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 183 km/h tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old 36-inch Great Refractor dome; no one was injured.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialAbout last night. Among many other things that can't be talked about there was good #meshcore radio reception on the rooftop of weekend club Berlin :)
@grindcrank@fnordon.deGuten Übermorgen, Zeitreisende.
@Simone21@mastodon.socialWeihnachtsbotschaft aus den USA von Jimmy Kimmel statt von König Charles VIII:
Ich finde diese Botschaft sehr wichtig, gerade in der jetzigen Zeit.
«Es mag vielleicht nicht so aussehen, aber wir lieben euch.»
Es sieht tatsächlich nicht mehr so aus, als wären die US-Amerikaner noch unsere Freunde.
Lasst uns auf bessere Zeiten hoffen. 🙏
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineStrands #634
“With gratitude”
🔵🔵🔵💡
🔵🟡💡🔵
🔵🔵
@sean@scoat.esCanada's online passport renewal app is called “IRCC Portal - New version” as in “If you don’t meet the requirements to use the IRCC Portal - New version…”
I hope someone there considered what will happen when they need a new new version.
@emd@cosocial.caI don’t regret my vote, based on my options during the election, but I am extremely disappointed in his policies. Likely killed my future Liberal votes.
Sure would love a strong NDP.
#CanPoli
https://mstdn.ca/@A…
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialI didn’t mind reading the article, the headline says it all: “OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-ch…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I should probably change my vote, but I'll stick with first choice, which involved root-on-ZFS.
That's not particularly neckbeardy, but then it took more than six months for me to notice that I also had OpenZFS-native encryption. A hidden beardy quality …
@…
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaAaah. The near-panic of not being able to find my Aftershokz to fall asleep to.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Janet Jackson:
🎵 Rhythm Nation
#JanetJackson
https://butterfactory.bandcamp.com/track/janet-jackson-rhythm-nation-butter-factory-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/51q3nDYWAqPY4hlgKEbP6j
@glauber@writing.exchangeI thought this was pretty funny. Awkward dinner parties.
Hopefully no paywall, gift article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/20
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.liveTime For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#BoxingDayASong
@barijaona@mastodon.mgDid you know of Explain XKCD ?
These ones are moving.
Two years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1141:_Two_Years
Seven years:
@45names@mastodon.social
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialIs it too late to say happy holidays :neofox_think_googly:
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioTelling people to delete /usr/lib to own the libs
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/26/belgium-rewards-ethical-hackers-who-uncover-government-it-vulnerabilities/
Belgium rewards ‘ethical hackers’ who uncover government IT vulnerabilities
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting "the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025" (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-hiri…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys should make trade offer for disgruntled 5x Pro Bowl Raiders star https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/27/cowboys-trade-offer-proposal-raiders-maxx-crosby/87926554007/<…
@ratp_ligne_9@lepoulsdumonde.comDes trains stationnent entre Oberkampf et Mairie de Montreuil en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 28/11 10:01
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaMozart's Requiem in the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8APog61kTwQ
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaLinux utility for binding keyboard/mouse/touchpad actions to system actions (which reportedly has the ability to override and disable the touchpad gestures that are literally compiled into KDE Plasma-Wayland for some unfathomable fucking reason)
https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.delinux: Linux source inclusions (v3.16)
A network of Linux (v3.16) source code file inclusion. Nodes represent source files and a directed edge indicates if one file includes another.
This network has 30837 nodes and 213954 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/linux
@ratp_ligne_13@lepoulsdumonde.comLe trafic est perturbé entre Saint-Denis – Université et Carrefour Pleyel vers Châtillon-Montrouge et Saint-Denis – Université en raison d'un incident voyageur Š Saint-Denis – Université.
🤖 28/11 09:01
@cdarwin@c.imTrump urged Republicans in the Senate to scrap the #filibuster,
saying it had become an obstacle to "effective governing" and removing it would prevent another government shutdown
and pave the way for his party to push through its legislative priorities.
“The filibuster is hurting the Republican Party,” Trump told Politico.
He called on Republican lawmakers to eliminat…
@teledyn@mstdn.caIt is probably just me, or just my relative newcoming to Fediverse having not yet found my true centre, but I'd spend more time here if there were more totally-off-the-rails posts like this one:
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804124363834146816/vbartilucci-lemonsharks-girlactionfigure?source=share
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»SoundCloud-Hack — HIBP-Datenbank nimmt Daten von 30 Millionen Accounts auf:
Beim @… Dienst können Nutzer nun prüfen, ob sie von der Cyberattacke auf SoundCloud von Ende 2025 betroffen sind.«
Nun auch SoundCloud. Die Frage ist doch eigentlich, welche Webdienste wurden noch nicht angegriffen und gehackt? Auch "nur Metadaten" sag…
@oekologisch_unterwegs@mastodon.online❓ Hat jemand von Euch eine #Bratpfanne mit zwei Fächern?
Was und wie kocht ihr damit?
Edit: Hab sowas im Internet gefunden. Wird als Hotpot tituliert. Wird beworben für das gleichzeitige Kochen von zwei Speisen, wenn einer eine Allergie hat und man es getrennt kochen muss. Also ob man dafür so eine Spezialanfertigung bräuchte. Häää?
@schachjugend@schach.socialRunde 1 der DVM U16 2025 Dresden ist gespielt! ♟️💪
#dvm25
@qbi@freie-re.deNiederländisch ist doch eine wundervolle Sprache.
Bei @… gab es in der Vergangenheit auch schöne Beispiele.
https://speld.nl/2025/03/06/wie-is-j-d
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotA night of weird, vivid dreams, mostly about personal loss, but over it all a sense of an utterly weary God, disillusioned with humanity, tired of our vanity and our heedlessness, no longer thinking that it's either possible to save us, or that we merit the effort of trying.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzMano a Mano con Dylan Laube https://www.raiders.com/video/mano-a-mano-con-dylan-laube
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSometimes I consider myself mildly successful because people read blog posts like this and still want to buy things from me...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/01/29/giant-usb-button/
@Adam@social.lein.usI see zero people lined up at Bestbuy today or last night! Maybe Black Friday isn't really a thing anymore.
@doktrock@toad.socialxkcd: Geologic Core Sample
https://xkcd.com/3171/
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deRE: #Merz during visit in
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialCalifornia is the largest U.S. state economy, responsible for 14.5% of national GDP. By comparison, the median U.S. state contributes roughly 1% to 2% of total GDP 💰
✅ Mapped: Every State's Share of U.S. GDP
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-states…
@datascience@genomic.socialKeynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats
@jae@mastodon.me.uk
@bici@mastodon.social
@newsie@darktundra.xyzSomeone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts https://www.404media.co/someone-is-trying-to-hack-people-through-apple-podcasts/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150 manufacturers operate in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/…
@Kabarett@mastodon.socialUli Keuler beendet Bühnenkarriere
Der Schwäbische Kabarettist Uli Keuler verabschiedet sich nach über 50 Jahren von der Bühne.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-27.11.2025-uli-keuler.html
Fotograf Reiner Pfisterer
@benb@osintua.euUkraine says it struck Russia's only Il-38N in the Black Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/ukraine-says-it-struck-russias.html
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
RAIKER: That's what they said.
LEYLAN: That's what they always say. They don't bother! Nobody bothers anymore.
LEYLAN: [To Artix] You'd better identify us to Space Security.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/12 B7B2
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… the last time I tried to do a CSS in Tailwind it had that same look
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist Paramilitary invades school, abducts a mother and does who knows what with the child. [Chicago]
Source: #politics
@Life_is@no-pony.farm @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAnd a video clip from #LickObservatory with the removal by crane of the torn-down shutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYooaiylVEg
@45names@mastodon.social @dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialOne of the many ways the US government is killing its citizens: “Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-environmental-protection-a…
@cdarwin@c.imA new genome study offers significant insight, pinpointing the introduction of domestic cats into Europe from North Africa.
The research indicates that domestic cats first arrived on the continent roughly 2,000 years ago, coinciding with the early imperial Roman era.
This migration was likely facilitated by burgeoning maritime trade,
with some of these early feline travellers possibly brought by sailors to hunt mice on ships.
These vessels plied the Mediterranean, carr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying $37M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an unauthorized external wallet (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dediscogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSo far Fallout is the one streaming series that hasn't disappointed me this season:
❌ Squid Game S3
❌ Star Trek Strange New Worlds S3
❌ Reacher S3
❌ Last of Us S2
❌ The Bear S4
*Fallout Season 2* E1 & E2 get my seal of approval. (Haven't seen Peacemaker S2... yet)
#fallout
@ratp_ligne_9@lepoulsdumonde.comUn train stationne Š Porte de Montreuil vers Pont de Sèvres en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 26/11 22:01
@ratp_ligne_13@lepoulsdumonde.comUn train stationne Š Saint-Lazare vers Châtillon-Montrouge en raison d'une panne de signalisation .
🤖 28/11 09:22
@teledyn@mstdn.caThis is distressing, not only the allegations in her testimony, which are way over the top, even for trump, but also because these things are shared as screenshots of X posts.
Haven't folks figured out yet that digital copies can be effortlessly modified or straight out fabricated?
Please give definitive sources. I will endeavour to do the same. It's the least due diligence we should offer.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaMy cousin came over for Christmas dinner and when he saw my beloved Thinkpad, he said it was an "old brick" compared to his Macbook. If I'd had that Macbook handy, I would have smashed it over his head.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Stromspeicherkapazitäten je #Speichertechnologie in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „aktiv“ und vorhan…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNFL Insider Leaks Baffling Chip Kelly Stories From Raiders Tenure https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-insider-leaks-baffling-chip-kelly-stories/?adt_ei=[email]
@fortune@social.linux.pizza"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
-- Philip K. Dick
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgthis is WILD
they are making sounds by pulling tape back and forth thru reel-to-reel tape players with long bamboo bows and controlling the pitch with keyboards
https://youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc
@schachjugend@schach.socialWir sind Live auf Twitch :chessytv: #dvm25
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI can understand maybe not being able to comprehend this due to age (he's 79).
But there's a lot of young people who don't have problems with images like these which show wrong things, make up stuff that's weird, look creepy and misspell text.
I wonder if perhaps repeated COVID infections contribute to people's mental decline that is similar to age-related mental issues.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… LOL
The old ones are the best. Except teeth.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWoke up at 5am and got an idea to fix a 3D print that didn't quite fit. Started the printer and it might be done in time for when I have to leave the house. No, I'm not a addicted to tech nerdery #3Dprint #3Dprinting
@benb@osintua.euIs Russia preparing Europe for war? Kremlin propaganda has crossed the line: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/is-russia-preparing-europe-for.html
@bici@mastodon.socialA tola e leto no se porta rispeto.
#veneto
@ratp_ligne_9@lepoulsdumonde.comLes trains circulent Š vitesse réduite Š Mairie de Montreuil vers Pont de Sèvres en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée .
🤖 26/11 22:58
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaBOFH excuse #32:
techtonic stress
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt's so fucking sad that this guy who wrote some of the most classic computer books in the 70s and 80s now has gone off the deep end and pooped AI-generated imagery all over his website that _misspells the names of his own books_.
https://mitchwaite.com
@benb@osintua.eu'May he perish,' — Zelensky voices Ukrainians' wish in his Christmas Eve address: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/may-he-perish-zelensky-voices.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iowhy is the snowman bleeding, this seems odd. shouldn't his blood be just clear, anyway?
@benb@osintua.euAnother blast in Moscow kills two police officers allegedly involved in torturing Ukrainian POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/another-blast-in-moscow-kills.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese-language crypto laundering networks processed ~$16.1B in 2025, or $44M per day on average across 1,799 wallets, representing 20% of laundering activity (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2026-crypto-money-laundering/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump is using the same blatantly racist playbook as used to illegally imprison Japanese American US citizens in WWII.
Robert Reich explains.
☑️ The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime - Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d14419c5-7fa5-4128-9858-7f83259ca02e
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThey should have an article about what’s real and fake about what’s in the Washington Post
https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/115605669765801191
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387280/crypto-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…
