Predictions for 2026:

My New Year's resolution is not to have any New Year's resolutions.

TIL: If you click and hold on a playing YouTube video, it switches to 2x speed until you release, then returns to normal speed.

Lulz. "Oil tanker pursued by US now has a Russian flag painted on its side": https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/31/politics/oil-tanker-venezuela-russian-flag

"Ten years after it ended its ‘one-child’ policy, China’s push for more babies isn’t winning its citizens over": https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/01/china/china-one-child-anniversary-intl-hnk-vis-dst To no one's surprise, that policy had disastrous demographic effects (which anyone with a brain […]

No shit. "Japan’s prime minister joins female lawmakers in fight for more toilets in parliament": https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/01/asia/japan-female-toilets-parliament-sanae-takaichi-hnk-intl

"DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm U.S. Citizenship": https://reason.com/2025/12/31/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-u-s-citizenship/ Your tax money at work: let's force people to use privacy-invading crap that doesn't even […]

"Top 10 Things Crypto Was Supposed to Change & What Actually Did": https://listverse.com/2025/12/29/top-10-things-crypto-was-supposed-to-change-what-actually-did/

"Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, and the Quiet Admission of Defeat": https://ronpaulinstitute.org/europes-panic-economy-frozen-assets-empty-arsenals-and-the-quiet-admission-of-defeat/

"New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-phone-ban-clock-time-b2891919.html

rm -rf ~/2025 mkdir ~/2026

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115816633476485453 The totalitarian communist stupidity has begun.

Approaching year 2026...

It is unfair to compare Trump to Hitler.

From the "no shit, Sherlock:" department: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/summit-county/how-utah-police-departments-are-using-ai-to-keep-streets-safer

"Guardian: an enterprise-grade AI-powered penetration testing automation framework": https://github.com/zakirkun/guardian-cli

"HackGPT Enterprise:s a production-ready, cloud-native AI-powered penetration testing platform": https://github.com/yashab-cyber/HackGpt

Well, shit. "Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4 billion in debt": https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/port-a-potty-company-files-bankruptcy-wipe-away-24bn-debt-2025-12-29/

Russia: 3I/ATLAS is our secret weapon. Ukraine: We already shot down 1I/ATLAS and 2I/ATLAS.

"Why Did the EU Slide Into Complete Irrelevance?": https://mishtalk.com/economics/why-did-the-eu-slide-into-complete-irrelevance/

Health (or lack thereof) update: https://bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/bye.html#2025-12-30 (Mostly bureaucratic stuff.)

Somebody is hiring escorts with a Top Secret security clearance. Wait, what?!

"Multiple vulnerabilities in GnuPG and other cryptographic tools": https://www.heise.de/en/news/39C3-Multiple-vulnerabilities-in-GnuPG-and-other-cryptographic-tools-11125362.html

"Dedollarization":

Infosec metaphor?

Not related to the latest MongoDB vulnerability (since it doesn't require authentication), but does anyone know of a good MongoDB honeypot? You know, one that masquerades as a real MongoDB database server and logs the login attempts while returning a "bad credentials" error? (It clearly won't be […]

Duct tape: it can't fix stupid but it can muffle the sound.

The only necessary correction.

Bow down to your queen! (And get me some food while you're at it. I *know* that you hide food in this large silvery box; I've seen you doing it.) #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

"Cats meow more at men to get their attention, study suggests": https://www.livescience.com/animals/domestic-cats/cats-meow-more-at-men-to-get-their-attention-study-suggests #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

"As More Coders Adopt AI Agents, Security Pitfalls Lurk in 2026": https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/coders-adopt-ai-agents-security-pitfalls-lurk-2026 No shit, Sherlock.

"What if Bitcoin was one big mining company?": https://no01.substack.com/p/what-if-bitcoin-was-one-big-mining You'd be insane buying its shares.

"The Trillion-Dollar Oops": https://no01.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-oops This one is hilarious - I've lost count of how many jokes are in it. Yet, it's a very on-point analysis of the AI bubble. cc @GossiTheDog

I fixed a hardware problem from half a way across the globe yesterday. My aunt, who lives in California, called me to wish me a Merry Christmas and also complained that when calling people over Teams, she would see the other party just fine but they couldn't see her. I entered her computer […]

Privacy settings are important.

Merry whatever to everyone, except to those who don't celebrate it.

"Baker beware: How I was fooled by an AI-generated recipe": https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/24/health/ai-recipe-baking

Has Russia shot down Santa yet?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115775278394754496 Coming soon in your country, too. (No matter which country it is.)

Christmas group therapy:

"The US is at war": https://no01.substack.com/p/the-us-is-at-war

"Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media Apparently, cut-n-paste rates as "hacks" these days...

"Russia Targets Bulgaria: 'Your Country Could Become a Frontline'": https://www.novinite.com/articles/236057/Russia+Targets+Bulgaria%3A+%27Your+Country+Could+Become+a+Frontline%27

"Bulgarian Man Dies in U.S. ICE Jail - Outrage Grows Over 'Preventable' Death": https://www.novinite.com/articles/236029/Bulgarian+Man+Dies+in+U.S.+ICE+Jail+-+Outrage+Grows+Over+%27Preventable%27+Death

"Israeli soldiers shot and killed a West Bank teen they say ‘hurled a block.’ Video shows them shooting him point blank": https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/21/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-west-bank-teen-killed-latam-intl

"Silverware worth thousands of euros stolen from French presidential palace": https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/21/europe/france-palace-stweard-steals-silver-latam-intl Between this and the Louvre heist, it's almost as if France has a security problem...

"Should you stop saying ‘um’?": https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/22/health/filler-words-speech-wellness Um, I don't think so.

Now, *that's* what AI should be doing, instead of writing buggy programs and hallucinating wrong answers. As somebody said once, I want AI to wash the dishes, so that I can write poetry; I don't want to wash the dishes so that AI can write poetry. "Moravec's Paradox and the Robot Olympics" […]

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...