2025-12-28 09:27:00
Top anti-Putin Russian commander killed fighting for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/top-antiputin-russian-commander-killed.html
Q&A with Edison Scientific CEO Sam Rodriques about Kosmos, Edison's AI tool for scientific research, why AI probably won't cure diseases anytime soon, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/podcasts/hardfork-ai-science.html
Mehrere hundert Menschen beim Talk beim #39c3 der @… zur Kündigung ihrer Konten durch u.a. die @… , es gibt nicht annähernd genug Pla…
むしろ休みになってからが本番
Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention. (Miriam Jordan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/us/trump-afrikaner-ice.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p46#a251226p46
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus
🏛
Interessante analyse van wat voor soort dementie Trump precies heeft. En wat daar het gevaar van is.
https://open.substack.com/pub/frankgeorge8675309/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f?r=4fpew…
Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html
Walk like a penguin 🐧
For the longest time I thought those red flowers were called pon-si-ettas.
Dank Trump gibt es im Gaza ja nun eine ziemlich stabile Waffenruhe und die Hamas konsolidiert ihre Regierung. Zugleich aber gibt es Forderungen von außerhalb, die Hamas zu stürzen, ins Exil zu drängen oder schlimmeres. Eine grosse Zahl von Staaten hat den Gaza als Staat anerkannt. Und es gibt ein Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker. Ich Frage mich nun, wann endlich werden Staaten wie Island, Norwegen, Schweden, Polen , Frankreich, Spanien, portugal, Kanada, australien, Mexiko, Brasilien, Indien, …
No joke I’ve read multiple documents that argued the Roman Empire was too tolerant and allowed for too much ethnic mixing, which was why they thought Italians in the late 19th / early 20th century were a threat to white purity….
They were literally justifying their prejudice with history that was many centuries old. (Also how did none of them consider that the Roman Empire reached territories that would become Britain and France and Germany too? It’s not like their ancestors were somehow exempt from this supposed ethnic mixing.)
“you can just supply an IP address of a MongoDB instance and it’ll start ferreting out in memory things such as database passwords (which are plain text), AWS secret keys etc. The exploit specifically looks for those class of credentials and secrets, too.”
https://doublepulsar.com…
an agnostic programmer dies. realizes it's his chance to find out if God is real. looks up at the sky with deep wonder
$1 = <value optimized out>
What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…
Last month I switched from Google Workspace to proton.me for hosting email for my domains.
It went smoothly, but if you're considering it, here's some things I wish I'd known when I was starting to move my old email.
#protonmail #google_apps #google_workspace
Everytime someone asks me to "please leave a #Google review" at this guesthouse/restaurant/etc, when I say "Sorry, I don't have a Google account" they seem so flabbergasted that they don't know how to respond.
And a video clip from #LickObservatory with the removal by crane of the torn-down shutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYooaiylVEg
@… Yes, there are other possible scenarios, and it certainly depends on a variety of factors. But I guess that, e.g., Grammarly, sorry: Superhuman 🙄 are getting themselves into position.
Wo Schicht für Schlittschuhverleih? #39c3
Everyone's 2nd favorite single-serving website is now updated with the details of #FreeMuni on New Year's Eve
https://ismunifree.com
When I was a kid, I had a couple well-loved issues of G.I. Joe Special Missions, and this art from the cover of one of them was my absolute favorite. And I ran across it the other day again, and it still strikes me as extremely badass, even now. Just something about Snake Eyes scaling a wall in moonlight.
#art #comics …
sean hodgins’s xmas ornament is a bit more low key this year https://youtu.be/DlL3AunnM_I
@… leuk stukje en jij kan er natuurlijk al helemaal niks aan doen, maar ik ben inmiddels zo'n klimaatdrammer dat ik denk: een rijbewijs? Grootouders, waarom nou toch? Geef ze een elektrische fiets, een levenslange ovkaart, een warmtepomp! Of een noodpakket met rubberboot (flauw grapje).
Up Shit Creek, PC Hardware Edition: https://youtu.be/uvahiVBvn9A?si=GwmWJp22UpFr4JuM
This is freakin' cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch_NgZpQs how trees actually work. I learned a lot!
I'm after a serial bootlog from an ESP-S32 that's had it's fuse blown so it won't switch into serial boot; If anyone has one I'd love a copy! (Preferably with GPIO0 held low)
Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport
today i watched the entirety of malice@doll for the first time, and so when i opened up a chocolate x pretzel snack bag from christmas and saw it all melted and mangled into clumps from the road, i imagined each like it was one of the mechanical x organic amalgamations
Very cool approach to sea level rise mitigation:
#ClimateAction
George's corrupt Republican party finally gets its way and kills the election interference case against Donald Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case
If AAAI-26 has to review 23,000 (!) papers, twice as many as in 2025, with almost 20,000 (!) of the 29,000 total submissions from China, this isn’t organic growth, and it’s not sustainable either.
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I’m just appalled that anyone exposes MongoDB to the Internet.
We’ve always known it was a bad idea, haven’t we? @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog
Du hast mit dem Stein viel Zeit verbracht
Having one of those days where my replies to folks are sucking so I’m gonna just like and repost for a bit 😁
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Neighborhood Kids:
🎵 FED UP
#TheNeighborhoodKids
https://theneighborhoodkids.bandcamp.com/track/fed-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NM9JsVx9VJdf7LXH8APoC
"ME/CFS ist eine Ansammlung trauriger Superlative: Der Guardian nennt den Umgang mit der Krankheit den größten Medizinskandal des 21. Jahrhunderts, sie ist Studien zufolge eine der schwerwiegendsten chronischen Krankheiten überhaupt und die Krankheit mit der verhältnismäßig geringsten Forschung." #MECFS #LongCovid
Hat jemand gerade eine Idee, was man mit einem 12jährigen aus Holz basteln kann? Vogelhäuschen und Insektenhotels haben wir schon viele, Fadenbilder sind zu babyhaft und irgendwie fehlt die Idee...
Casper's window hammock is tilting downward on the left. Potential disaster has been averted by propping up the left side with a high backed rocker. As soon as his nap is over I'll reattach it more securely.
#CatsOfMastadon #Caturday
RE: #Utahns
Americans may think French people are pessimistic. 🇫🇷🇺🇸 #shorts #FranceVsUSA #CultureShock - YouTube
✅ Zum ersten Mal das "Mein Justizpostfach" genutzt und darüber verschlüsselte Nachrichten versandt.
#digitalisierung
A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/m…
Meta SAM 3 und 3D als offene Modelle verfügbar
SAM segmentiert Objekte auf Bildern und in Videos, sogar Audio ist per Prompt separierbar: Das KI-Modell ist frei verfügbar.
https://www.heise.de/…
2000KM STRIKE! Security Service of Ukraine sinks Russia spy network in the Mediterranean!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/km-strike-security-service-of.html
Noch der Bahn ausgeliefert bin ich aber hoffentlich bald in Hamburg und freue mich darauf, nachher beim c’t uplink Podcast von @… zum Thema: #DigitaleSouveränität der Frage nachgehen zu dürfen: "Sind Häcker:innen jetzt fürs Staatswohl verantwortli…
You too can improve your "shipping velocity" by taking anti-constipation pills
サーバ管理者の方には仕事納めないけど!
Trump Administration Live Updates: Zelensky Says He Will Meet President This Weekend (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/26/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p47#a251226p47
On 4 March, Donald Trump delivered his epic 100-minute speech to Congress, the longest such presidential address in US history.
Having finished speaking, in time-honored fashion, he walked down the line of supreme court justices, gladhanding each in turn before coming to a stop before the chief justice, #John #Roberts
Am I supposed to feel sympathy when someone keeps all their data on a single platform's "free" services & then loses access arbitrarily and has no access to "their" data?
I can certainly join them in anger again the #platform but, there really needs to be more awareness of the risks of becoming so dependent on companies and the need to keep control of your
A local TV report from #LickObservatory showing the exterior damage to the refractor's dome caused by the storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPoIrMzOubU
Freedom Ship by Marcus Rediker is so good. Thank you @… for the tip
https://bookshop.o…
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Was steckt hinter dem Wasserverbrauch von KI?
Seit Monaten erscheinen Presseartikel, die den #Wasserverbrauch von KI kritisieren. Viele beinhalten keine weiteren Erklärungen und lassen den Leser rätselnd zurück.
Was bedeutet eigentlich #Wasserverbrauch
Jetzt ist wieder die Zeit im Jahr da wir fordern, aus § 23 der 1. SprengV die Vorkommen von „in der Zeit vom 2. Januar bis 30. Dezember“ sowie Absatz (2) Satz 2 zu streichen.
Mindich speaks to Ukrainian media for first time since fleeing country, denies guilt, claims no contact with Zelensky or Yermak: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/mindich-speaks-to-ukrainian-media.html
If AAAI-26 has to review 23,000 (!) papers, twice as many as in 2025, with almost 20,000 (!) of the 29,000 total submissions from China, this isn’t organic growth, and it’s not sustainable either.
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📚 Faire Justice : l’engagement de Chardons Bleus
Notre objectif est clair :
• Obtenir une peine de prison ferme pour Robert Spatz.
• Faire condamner ses complices Š la direction de l’OKC.
• Dissoudre juridiquement et religieusement l'organisation en France, Belgique et Espagne.
1/2
@… Yes, there are other possible scenarios, and it certainly depends on a variety of factors. But I guess that, e.g., Grammarly, sorry: Superhuman 🙄 are getting themselves into position.
"Da ist was hart. Ich fühl das. Ich will jetzt aber nicht rein gucken."
#haxkoleaks
(Wie sich nach dem verstörten Blick rausstellte lautete die Frage, ob ein Laptop in der Tasche ist…)
We have come full circle from "of course we only use AI for prototypes" over "AI is amazing but obviously it needs experts checking on the output and extensive refactoring" to "let's just ship the slop".
from my link log —
asn1c: the Lionet ASN.1 compiler.
https://github.com/vlm/asn1c
saved 2025-10-27 https://dotat.at/:/8YCM5.html
RE: #39c3
昨日、仕事納めしたので、今日はゆっくり過ごしたい。まあなんかやると思うけども。
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Zivilgesellschaft warnt vor Unterzeichnen der Cybercrime-Konvention
A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1
Trump tells Post there's a 'good shot' at reaching Russia-Ukraine peace during Zelensky's visit (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/trump-tells-post-theres-a-good-shot-at-reaching-russia-ukraine-peace-during-zelenskys-visit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p48#a251226p48
“This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”
The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.
And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment.
Connecting the particle’s many faces has …
水槽かー。ドクターフィッシュ入れるか。
The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…
The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Patel Says FBI Headquarters to 'Permanently Close' With Move (Bill Faries/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-26/patel-says-fbi-headquarters-to-permanently-close-with-move
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p45#a251226p45
Russia says it tested nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/26/russia-says-it-tested-nuclearpowered.html
"I would place the odds at 70%
that Democrats are going to recapture the House in a massive tsunami"
-- Patrick Gaspard of the Center for American Progress
Last month a poll by Gallup showed Trump’s job approval rating down to 36%, the lowest of his second term
Notably his approval rating was #underwater
on crime (43%),
foreign affairs (41%),
foreign tr…
"Potatdog"
Palm Zire 71 (0.3MP, 2003)
#shittycameraChallenge
Dell, HP, and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from the buildout of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/te…
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change (Kristin Wright/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/27/g-s1-103808/kennedy-center-lawsuit-chuck-redd-cancellation-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p36#a251227p36
In the wake of the D.C. shooting,
the Trump administration will conduct a full review of Afghan nationals who were admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration,
Donald Trump said.
“We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,
and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country.”
Ugh surprise ER visit (we’re ok now, Amy had a allergic reaction)
Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anduril…
He Looks Like A Witness To Me -- No one should be surprised by Donald Trump's Christmas day social media post. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/he-looks-like-a-witness-to-me
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p37#a251227p37
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…
Fear Of Retaliation Grips State Department Lawyers Meant To Advise On International Law (Akbar Shahid Ahmed/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-legal-office_n_694b590ee4b00ac998b34419
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p35#a251227p35