@evan Sparingly, and only in some games.
@mutual_aid@hexbear.net
I have been jokingly comparing large language models (LLMs) to multilevel marketing schemes (MLMs), but had not realised that the ML community already coined the term "multimodal" LLM, or MLLM, to basically do my job for me
BrianKrebs
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Merry Christmas to everybody, except that dude who works for Elastic, who decided to drop an unauthenticated exploit for MongoDB on Christmas Day, that leaks memory and automates harvesting secrets (e.g. database passwords)
CVE-2025-14847 aka MongoBleed
Exp: https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/blob/main/mongobleed.py
This one is incredibly widely internet facing and will very likely see mass exploitation and impactful incidents
Impacts every MongoDB version going back a decade.
Shodan dork: product:"MongoDB"
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Evan Prodromou
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A guy who by his own admission doesn’t fully understand reddit moderation tools probably thought he could prevent my *reading* of it, which isn’t how that works in the first place. Instead all he did was literally censor me, which is… ironic.
This also happened just after midnight at the tail end of Christmas Day in the US… I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions about that.
@slicedlime the slicing of limes shall not be tolerated, apparently
@eevee @ancoghlan … why not? I just got myself throttled by google after opening 1000 tabs with a script in chrome so I don't want to open any more, but it seems perfectly serviceable
@eevee @ancoghlan I also find this kind of a weird metric by which to evaluate a browser, and I don't understand why it's interesting; even if chrome were totally incapable of doing this, why do you want to organize your bookmarks as "open tabs", rather than in, like, bookmark folders and stuff?
27 December 1924 | Dutch Jew, Simon van Praag, was born in Rotterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1943. He did not survive.
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📖 Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
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It’s the final collection of new books and ARCs for 2025, and this one is a double decker! What here is something you would want to take with you into the new year?
@scalzi I don't see it there, but Dave Hutchinson (Europe series) had a new book out last week called "The Essence".
I'm about 2/3s through it and can barely put it down. He's so great at writing dialogue that I read those bits twice!
Best wishes for a Happy 2026 🙏🏼
@eevee @ancoghlan … why not? I just got myself throttled by google after opening 1000 tabs with a script in chrome so I don't want to open any more, but it seems perfectly serviceable
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clar fon
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if you are presenting as a cis woman at your doctors and want to try testosterone you can just say you want it for sex drive and probably get it. you might have to go to a compounding pharmacy for it but it's not extremely expensive, i did this about 6 years ago and it was $25/month for the gel. it won't be enough to do a ton of transition changes but it'll be enough to answer some questions.
@cheeaun I mean, moving the authoring interface.
People often make the mistake of starting a private mention by typing it out, and *intending* to switch the delivery settings to "private mention" before hitting Send.
But they get caught up in their message, and by the time they get to the end they forget to change the delivery settings. So when they hit Send, a possibly sensitive message goes out to the public.
@cheeaun making this choice at the beginning rather than the end of the process would make the mistakes less likely. At least, I think so!
participating in the national tradition of sitting in traffic for hours to make it to the coast on Dec 26th
@nixCraft Vivaldi is a Chromium clone with a built in ad blocker
Tim Chambers
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The great unchurching of America (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/26/great-unchurching-america-religiously-unaffiliated
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p44#a251226p44
@evan I'm not sure which aspect you're referring to. I don't see any separation as long as the there's linkage between broadcast post and non-broadcast post (e.g. I could reply to this with "direct" visibility, and then you could respond with "public" visibility, effectively breaking the entire conversation thread in public 🤣).
Renaming "direct message/mention" to "private mention" by Mastodon feels like a solid first step in the right direction.
@cheeaun I mean, moving the authoring interface.
People often make the mistake of starting a private mention by typing it out, and *intending* to switch the delivery settings to "private mention" before hitting Send.
But they get caught up in their message, and by the time they get to the end they forget to change the delivery settings. So when they hit Send, a possibly sensitive message goes out to the public.
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Tim Chambers
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@cheeaun have you thought about separating the UI for sending a direct message from the one for a broadcast post? I know the Mastodon team is planning to do it, but there's no harm in you doing it first.
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Since we have a bunch of nerds in here and a year of slop is wrapping up fast: what was the best patch or contribution to an open project you’ve seen this year?
@mhoye So many cool things happen in the Wikimedia technoverse every year, so picking just one is hard. I haven’t seen the killer app built on it yet, but the new SVG generation support in Scribunto is something that I think folks will figure out some fancy uses for. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405861 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#SVG_library