The first painting of 2025 and the last painting of 2025.

Came home to find my infinite lawn had been mowed by @NanoRaptor

"Israel says it’s suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in the Gaza Strip.

They include some of the world’s most prominent and outspoken aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders."
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-humanitarian-aid-suspension-israel-ec535cea548ddc75080f1e6bffe53801

People are using Hank Green's AI water consumption video to dismiss concerns about AI water consumption.

Hanks video is terrible, by the way. It does nothing but encourage people to bicker over non-existent stats while AI companies continue to build data center kingdoms in poor communities.

Sandra is paying ~£25/month for something.

To cancel, she has to phone them.

She phoned them.

She is now paying £5/month for six months, then £15/month.

Aaaaargh.

#PennedPossibilities 888. What is the worst injury or illness your MC has ever experienced?

(Current WIP, two MCs): Jum and Tabitha have both died and been imprinted on a fresh kid's brain several times. Recently, J was attacked using a targeted prion disease designed to cause dementia and (irreversible) death over a few months. T has occasionally been murdered (reversibly) by family members. (Cause of death: non-consensual destructive brain scanning.)

Neither of them fancy scaphism, though.

U.S. economic growth in 2025 exceeded expectations, and tax cuts, corporate incentives, lower interest rates and clearer trade policy support cautious optimism for 2026. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/31/world/reasons-to-be-optimistic-on-2026-economy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #useconomy #donaldtrump #tariffs #2026outlook

@quinta a me tutti i politichetti sembrano dilettanti allo sbaraglio

@randahl #Trump is voted out, isn’t it? Will #Selensky now take over the post of “Mr. T” and chase the two to hell? #US #ukraine #putler

@pallenberg wenn du dann bitte noch #ResolvedaVinci darauf installieren könntest und erklärst, wie das klappt...

My new year’s resolution is 128×112

@amiserabilist

😊❤️

@Byte The solution here is to catch requests that hit a poisoned URL, and firewall the IP off for a week.

I still have to handle one request per IP, but that's ~10 less than otherwise, which helps keep the load down. They have a lot of addresses, but not infinite.

When I firewalled them off in early december, I ended up with ~400k IPv4 addresses and about 20k IPv6 addresses (collected over ~5 days), and virtually no bot traffic (~5 req/sec or so?).

oohhh it comes from time balls, used to indicate time for navigators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_ball

#catitstu

@presswerk @florian @christopher @simon ich muss an meinen rate-skills arbeiten!?

@mellifluousbox Thank you for providing such a solid foundation with Mastodon.

We're very lucky to have such a talented and forward thinking team to guide and inspire the social web!

I wish you the best in 2026, and can't wait to see all the exciting new things you guys will bring to the fediverse.

Much love from Pixelfed & Loops ❤️

> @YearProgress 🔗 https://donotban.com/users/YearProgress/statuses/115813633426328940
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Year progress: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 100.0%

@daniel @Mer__edith wasn't in the talk and haven't watched it yet but did you consider having a bad day as an explanation?

@Byte Not really, no, because the request arrives through HTTPS. I can't then pretend not to speak it.

I mean, the way they even discover a host exists is through certificate transparency logs. It would be weird not to support https then.

That, and a large part of the detection relies on the request arriving over HTTPS: the sec-fetch-mode header is not sent over plain HTTP, and that's a key indicator.