@EUCommission next step: recharge my EV with an USB-C charger 😆

Very nice anyway this move. The amount of iPhone cables I had to buy over the years is bizarre.

@pluralistic

Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic, “Picks and Shovels.” The third book in the Marty Hench series. If you’re a Homebrew Computer Club wannabe with a fascination for forensic accounting, you won’t find a better character or story arc than this collection. Episode three lives up to its predecessors.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/picks-and-shovels-a-martin-hench-novel-cory-doctorow/c61cac2a169d7bfe

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Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "Enshitification" von #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic , dessen #Audiobook Produktion ich im Crowdfunding #Kickstarter unterstützt hatte. Wie immer: Eminent lesenswert und hörenswert! Mit praktischen Tipps was wir dagegen machen können 🌻💚 #enshitification #righttorepair #Europe #DSA #GDPR

@raganwald @Shrigglepuss no, because those contained real information, not a plausible string of words describing something that might exist in a museum similar to the one you're in.

@Shrigglepuss Is this those old portable cassette players they would rent you, preloaded with a prerecorded walking tour? Or the current versions, which are apps for a portable device and combine audio, video and picture content with maps, and directions?

Only with extra climate-changing and billionaire-forging steps?

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"

Hmm. Is my flight long enough to watch the best Christmas movie ever made (Die Hard)?

@GossiTheDog @hrbrmstr Yep. GitHub listed it as a ten last week despite the PR:L but now there's no score on the GitHub page.

@timnitGebru ah yes, the AI Supreme Court Jesters, pronouncing that the only way to save the works from AI is MOAR BETTER AI

@teivel what is a quantitative type system? That's the first I've heard of it

We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/as-people-look-for-ways-to-make-new-friends-here-are-the-apps-promising-to-help/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Truly I do not remember the last time that the 1Password Safari extension worked properly and stayed unlocked. SO frustrating to use and THE reason I have a "1Password alternative option" Apple Note actively updated.

proof per aircraft

@knuku I fully tested both systems and did manual reconciliation to keep them in sync. It's a lot of work to use both simultaneously. Apple Passwords lacks some features that we currently use as a family. It's close but not there yet. Certainly our top alternate candidate.

@auschwitzmuseum

Mieczysław Kozina🕯️

@hrbrmstr @cR0w Github 🤣