Woha.
Une grille de 29x29 caractères chinois brodés formant un (des) poème(s) pouvant être lus dans tous les sens, sorte de palindrome multidirectionnel, par la poétesse Su Hui, au 4e siècle.

Source : tumblr.com/crystalis/802977672…
Fiche wikipedia de Su Hui : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Hui_(…

In one of the all-too-regular threads bemoaning the leadership decisions at Mozilla, someone mentioned offpunk (thanks someone!), an offline-first command line browser. This is nice.

offpunk.net/whatisoffpunk.html

What is Offpunk?

Offpunk Tutorial

^offpunk.net

The thing about kids is, I don’t really care for them. They’re fine one-on-one, and I’m quite fond of all my grandchildren, but when you get several of them together, they lose their minds and become little more than feral banshees. They like to repeat sounds and words, over and over, like psychotic Buddhist monks on a meth-infused bender. It’s exhausting and pushes my addled brain to the limits of human composure.

#Christmas #Essay #Writing #Grinch

medium.com/ellemeno/maybe-the-…

YEARS

YOU SPENT YEARS BRAGGING THAT YOU HIRED THE BEST ENGINEERS IN THE WORLD

ONLY THE VERY BEST

BUILDINGS FULL OF 10X ENGINEERS

AND YOU GAVE THESE BRILLIANT GENIUS OUTLIER CODE MONSTERS TOOLS YOU SAID WILL MAKE THEM EVEN 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE

IT WILL 10X YOUR 10X

AND FIRED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SO YOU COULD AFFORD THEM

AND THEY TRIED THOSE TOOLS AND DON'T WANT THEM

AND DON'T USE THEM

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU

MOTHERFUCKER WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic…

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

Heel goed stuk. We gingen 2 kleine stapjes vooruit maar hollen nu met 7mijlslaarzen 10 stappen achteruit. Blij dat dit door een mannelijke historicus is geschreven. www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

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Opinie Luuk Rijneveld: 'In acht jaar tijd hebben we een ooit zo krachtige en moedige online-beweging bedolven onder een berg zand met een zware steen erop'.

^BNNVARA

I just posted a few updates about GNU Mes in the blog:

ekaitz.elenq.tech/fasterMes4.h…

I hope you enjoy it, let me know if you have comments or questions.

#scheme #interpreters #C

This guy made your RAM ridiculously expensive. Discuss among yourselves.

(The guy on the left. The guy on the right is doing his best to normalize horrible people.)

Un explosif rapport allemand affirme que stocker ses données en Europe ne suffit plus à les protéger des USA

clubic.com/actualite-591508-un…

Un explosif rapport allemand affirme que stocker ses données en Europe ne suffit plus à les protéger des USA

Un avis juridique commandé par Berlin révèle l'étendue du contrôle américain sur les données cloud européennes. Même stockées dans des datacenters en Europe, vos informations restent accessibles aux autorités US.

^{Alexandre Boero (Clubic.com)}

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi taken to hospital after arrest, family says
https://apnews.com/article/iran-narges-mohammadi-nobel-peace-hospital-7a02bd68550758f8671830a5b74dd762?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress

Start the New Year Right With This TCL Nxtpaper Android Tablet for Only $300
https://www.cnet.com/deals/tcl-nxtpaper-14-android-tablet-deal/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tablets @tablets-cnet

Start the New Year Right With This TCL Nxtpaper Android Tablet for Only $300

Move over, Apple. This TCL tablet can do the job for a fraction of the price.

^{Ingrid Cruz (CNET)}

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I would like to cancel my donation.

The goals "Building the world’s most trusted software company" and "It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions." are intrinsically contradictory.

LLMs cannot ever be trusted.

They are impossible to audit, and can be trained to have whatever bias the training organization would like to inject, and it is impossible for a third party to predict those biases.

Additionally adding a bunch of new code directly into the browser engine increases bugs that negatively impact the user experience and increase the risks for new security vulnerabilities.

Agentic LLMs are also intrinsically unsafe for security as there is currently no way to separate trusted commands from parsing application data. There have a continuous stream of ways for malicious actors to get their hostile commands to be interpreted by an LLM agent and executed.

Straight up we should not use agentic browsers.
theregister.com/2025/12/08/gar…

The only way to be protect against this attack is do not implement it.

If you ever come to your senses and remove the LLM integrations from Firefox I will consider renewing my donation.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

: Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

Pritzker signs transit bill that should avert major service cuts, but cautions that ‘transformation’ takes time
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/pritzker-signs-transit-bill-that-should-avert-major-service-cuts-but-cautions-that-transformation-takes-time/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into National politics @national-politics-chicagotribune

Canada's Reese Howden becomes winningest men's ski cross athlete in World Cup history
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/freestyle-skiing/reese-howden-ski-cross-world-cup-december-16-9.7018287?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sports @sports-cbcnews

Devoir de vigilance : la directive européenne est définitivement affaiblie

Après des mois de bataille parlementaire et de lobbying, une majorité de députés européens, surtout issus de la droite et de l’extrême droite, ont voté mardi 16 décembre en faveur du compromis final, avec le soutien d’une majorité de députés centristes.

Par Cédric Vallet › mediapart.fr/journal/internati…

Devoir de vigilance : la directive européenne est définitivement affaiblie

Après des mois de bataille parlementaire et de lobbying, une majorité de députés européens, surtout issus de la droite et de l’extrême droite, ont voté mardi 16 décembre en faveur du compromis final, avec le soutien d’une majorité de députés centrist…

^{Cédric Vallet (Mediapart)}

What would you say if I told you that in a single year the European Union needed a land mass the size of Britain just to produce the fashion that it consumes.

I’ve been working on a new report called EXTRACTION FASHION to discover radical new data that for the first time outlines fashion’s footprint for Land, Fossil Fuels, Water and Human Time.

Please watch, share and use the data 🌎

youtube.com/shorts/CIEnSrIQISA…

Full report here: degrowth.org/wp-content/upload…