Wait…you (sometimes) cannot buy a Kindle book through an Amazon app, but you can through web? 🤯 Well, I guess I appreciate their support for open web…?

This fits my theory that enthusiasm for LLMs is proportional to how far are people from undestanding how it works (few researcher exceptions notwithstanding) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away

I have just bought my first Bluray in decades because I refuse to subscribe to another streaming service… it's less than $15 for a whole season… were they always this cheap!? (I'll rip and stream it locally; my DiskStation/LG combo seems to support AV1 out of the box 🤩)

If you feel like you hate everyone- EAT. If you feel like everyone hates you- SLEEP. If you feel like you hate yourself- SHOWER. If you feel like everyone hates everyone- Go OUTSIDE

EU banks should reduce their reliance on US Big Tech, top supervisor says https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-banks-big-tech-us-politics-europe-digital-services-economy/ Dutch central bank exec warns ‘concentration risk’ could lead to ‘major operational problems.’

> My LG TV’s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted. Weird that such a miracle technology can't be uninstalled. You'd think it would be so good and useful that people would go out of their way to install it, even.

Good move, Amtrak! Come on, corporations—do the right thing here; it’s actually good for business too! Amtrak is slashing executive bonuses to give out $900 apiece to over 18,000 rank-and-file workers https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/amtrak-bonuses-for-18000-workers-900-apiece/

When an American says "the regulatory environment is killing them” you should look at what the EU regulates. 1% of the roughly 350,000 chemicals in use in the US have ever been tested for safety. In its 55-year history, the EPA has banned or restricted about a dozen (by contrast, the EU has […]

Recently, some documents regarding Singapore and Malaysia’s separation were made available in an exhibition. They are called the Albatross Files, named after then 1960s Singapore finance minister’s belief that Malaysia was ‘an albatross around Singapore’s neck’. No real emotions on this other […]

“Wait what” animal of the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_panda_sea_squirt

it's always 'you should consider taking medication for your adhd' and never 'thank you for doing the first half of all these projects'

EMAIL WRAPPED 2025 This year, you received too fucking much email! Number of emails that found you well: zero Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]

I saw this photo on a Dutch news article about the Hong Kong fire without any translation, so my assignment this morning was to understand what they have to say. “STAY ANGRY” “May the dead rest and the survivors heal — hang in there, everyone” “We will not […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Want something not hideously depressing? This documentary about Indigenous teens paddling the Klamath River for the first time after dam removal is beautiful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuGuWeAra4

The CEO of The Onion set the publication's goal for 2026 to have more subscribers than The Washington Post. At the rate the latter is going, that won't take long. "For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important." "Look, we're an independent company, we […]

That document where SpaceX admits to dropping potentially lethal debris on Canada is still publicly available on their website, which is also kind of wild: https://starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf They seem to think it's a big whoopsie and no big deal […]

Wife is playing a video game on Linus machine. Then the dreaded words are uttered. “Hey the speakers stopped working but headphones still work.” Instantly sweat and memories of a misspent youth spent debugging pulse audio. Hands shaking, I ask the question I already know the answer to. “Have […]

2026 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop for real, folks. We all knew that living through the unbearable hell of the Cool Zone was going to open up some hopeful possibilities but even I didn't think this was going to be one of them

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115652336265227568 This has *got* to be a cause of action of some kind, right? fraud, maybe? libel? copyright infringement? if the law means anything surely you can't just do this with no consequences

"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬 https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025 Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"

For those of us shaking our heads over the Carney/Notley deal, this seems relevant and… not terrible? https://www.readtheline.ca/p/ken-boessenkool-carney-and-smith Yes, I know Carbon Capture is not actually useful (unless something changed?) Yes, I know they're still talking about building […]

Anthropic in one year: say “AI Bubble” one more time, and I’m taking your JS runtime with me. Say it one more time mofo, I dare you!!!1!1!1

"Costco is suing the Trump administration over its tariffs, arguing that the White House has exceeded its executive authority in instituting tariffs and that it should be entitled to a refund if the tariffs are found unconstitutional." 👀 […]

Four new models from Mistral today - all Apache 2 licensed, all vision-capable, and one of them is a 3GB model that can run in a web browser and answer questions about things it can see through the webcam! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/introducing-mistral-3/

China's CO2 emissions fell in the first half of the year. Fell! https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-solar-growth-keeps-chinas-co2-falling-in-first-half-of-2025/

Researchers have used Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer to build a virtual mouse cortex containing nine million neurons and 26 billion synapses. The model lets scientists run “virtual experiments” on diseases such as epilepsy or Alzheimer’s, tracing how disruptions spread, and testing interventions […]

Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it! It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]

This "soul document" in the RL data of Claude Opus is really interesting: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document It's like Asimov's 3 laws, but maybe more like 300 laws, edge cases, and nudges.

Seen at @dnalounge #dnalounge

South Korea's Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster https://futurism.com/future-society/south-korea-ai-textbook

1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic. 1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon […]

1973 - Robin Milner creates ML, a language based on the M&M type theory. ML begets SML which has a formally specified semantics. When asked for a formal semantics of the formal semantics Milner's head explodes. Other well known languages in the ML family include OCaml, F#, and Visual Basic […]

next: The Pocket Guide to Debugging I wrote this because my brother was learning to program, I wanted to recommend a guide to debugging to him, but I couldn't find one. It's a mix of practical tips ("see if you can find an old version of the code that […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

Is that your pubkey in my ~/.authorized_keys, or are you just happy to see me?

EU digitally resigned. We’re done here, we can just go join our American overlords apparently https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-police-world-digital-tech-us-china-regulations/

New, by me: Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet? "On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Last November I decided to 3D print and hand paint a custom Settlers of Catan board (because I'm a huge nerd) I didn't think it would take me an entire year to complete it, but pretty happy with how it turned out!

Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414

While I'm thinking about work, a piece of advice for startups thinking about security: fix your project management and roadmapping process before/at the same time as bringing someone in to help with security, especially if that person is not getting put in as a peer to the CTO with the swing to […]

I've been instituting exactly this kind of cooldown/delay on dependency updates at all of my clients for four or so years and I'm glad to see more people talking about it: https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns

Staré stezky na území Čech a Moravy #historie

in the brief window of time that Xitter was disclosing, for some reason, where accounts were originally registered, it claimed I had signed up for twitter in Canada. I have never been to Canada. I was not within a thousand miles of Canada when I registered […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This whole conflict is fascinating as someone who has worked a lot with GDPR compliance. On one side you have the EU who wrote a hilariously incomplete regulation. The authors seemed to presume that if a user did not consent to tracking, making that user less valuable to ad-supported services […]

One of the reasons I'm skeptical of the practicality of e2e verifiable voting schemes is that every system proposed so far is fragile. A single mishap can result in an unverifiable election (and, in worst-case scenarios like this, one in which you can't even determine the winner) […]

Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important […]

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html #ietf

LLMs are *absolute concentrated brain poison* for these folks. They try out the LLM to see if it can solve a few simple problems and then they extrapolate to more complex problems. Wrongly. They infer from social cues in their cohort, which are absolutely fucked by the amount of synthetic money […]