Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.

You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.

You don't know how many computers are in your computer.

This week, Europe must choose:

Whether the EU remains a geopolitical object, or chooses to become a subject that shapes its own future.

#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#EUCO #EUpol
#WeAreEU🇪🇺

https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/cost-inaction-why-passivity-no-longer-option-european-union

Got old Video Tapes you’d like Digitised?

Tapes are now failing. Sticky, flaking, mould

Some have been damaged over the years. Chewed or played in a badly aligned deck

With careful handling, some can be recovered. Get them done before it’s too late

This was a damaged Betamax, memories successfully recovered

Musk-KI Grok entgleist völlig: Nach dem tödlichen Terroranschlag in Sydney verbreitet sie absurde Fake News – von erfundenen palästinensischen Opfern bis zu Holocaust-Relativierung. Grok macht aus Helfern Täter, aus Fakten Verschwörung. Das ist kein Zufall, das ist System.
https://www.mimikama.org/grok-spinnt-musks-ki-chatbot-verbreitet-fake-news/

There’s finally a little bit of sunshine in Pluribus
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/847287/pluribus-episode-8-recap-discussion-apple-tv?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Apple News @apple-news-theverge

The person who checks their notifications is, afterward, exactly the same person who wanted to check their notifications five minutes ago.

The thin desire reproduces itself without remainder.

The thick desire transforms its host.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/

Advance Notice: we will remain open for submissions over the forthcoming holiday period, but will not be publishing any papers from Christmas Eve until the new year.

If you want your paper to be published in 2025, therefore, the final version must be announced on arXiv by Wednesday 24th December.

Please also note that submissions received in the run up to Christmas will probably be delayed in the editorial system owing to the lack of available referees during the break.

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115721946504717925

I think this just proves that companies will NOT use humans to quality check #aislop. Corporations cannot be trusted with this technology.

#AI

Ukraine Hits Shadow Fleet Tanker in Mediterranean for First Time
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/ukraine-hits-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-for-first-time?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Profiles @profiles-bloomberg

Sicherheitslücken: HPE-ProLiant-Server mit Intel QuickAssist sind verwundbar

Sicherheitspatches schließen mehrere Lücken in HPE ProLiant. Server sind aber nur unter bestimmten Bedinungen angreifbar.

https://www.heise.de/news/Sicherheitsluecken-HPE-ProLiant-Server-mit-Intel-QuickAssist-sind-verwundbar-11116372.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Patchday #Security #Sicherheitslücken #Updates #news

Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online.

We sat down with @taylorlorenz to dissect these 'Bad Internet Bills' and what you need to know to stop them: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/12/16/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-screen-act-and-repealing-section-230/

https://neat.tube/w/tS3ho29H2YTJJjEh8sXuNy
https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo

#KOSA #BadInternetBills #SCREENAct #AppStoreAccountabilityAct #USpol #USgov #Trump #Censorship #Privacy #AgeVerification #TaylorLorenz #USA #US #PrivacyGuides #Video

MyMood, un app open source per monitorare l’umore quotidiano

MyMood è un’app leggere e open source pensata per chi desidera tenere traccia del proprio stato d’animo giorno per giorno

I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.

I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.

I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.

But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.

#books #bookstodon #reading #readingCommunity #AmReading #amazon

https://writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/kindles-new-gen-ai-powered-ask-this-book-feature-raises-rights-concerns/

#Denmark takes a Viking swing at #VPN-enabled piracy - https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/denmark_vpn_ban/ denmark placing #copyright above #humanrights

Semi-solid state MagSafe power banks arrive from the founder of Hyper
https://www.theverge.com/news/847925/bmx-hyper-semi-solid-state-power-banks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Verge's Gadget News @the-verge-s-gadget-news-theverge

Time to do a load test! https://anubis.techaro.lol/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/api/honeypot/xe-mastodon/init

urk, but unsurprising. I once did an access request to Google for all internal emails about me, many years ago now, and received my name on a watchlist of ‘complaints’. https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

@devs it's not only spam, but also that #Forums don't map 1-to-1 to #Microblogging platforms, and how to best integrate both of these domains well in the interoperable #fediverse, is still an ongoing effort.

I'd pose that #SocialHub #ActivityPub community has not benefitted from their long-term desire to become fully #fedi integrated, because of these #challenges.

But this forum exists exactly for that kind of experiments, to find what works and learn from it. Things are improving, but slowly.