⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@GossiTheDog "don't make me open mspaint" is a threat I plan on using in catastrophically dumb meetings.

Wowzers, another perfect 10 from Cisco on Secure Email Gateway, Secure Mail, and Web Manager. This one has:

RCE
No patch
No workaround
No public IoCs

This attack campaign affects Cisco Secure Email Gateway, both physical and virtual, and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager appliances, both physical and virtual, when both of the following conditions are met:

The appliance is configured with the Spam Quarantine feature.
The Spam Quarantine feature is exposed to and reachable from the internet.

Recommendation is to reimage to a known-good config. Whatever that is, without indicators.

Good luck I guess??

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sma-attack-N9bf4

Using downstream forks of Firefox is fine for personal liberation in the short term, but these necessarily rely on the upstream continued development of Firefox and will be impacted when Mozilla implodes.

@falken no need; we're in agreement. LLMs are a war crime and should be prosecuted as such.

@codinghorror @jhooper I'd like to add that Aaron was the victim of a ratfucking campaign by a huge corporate near-monopoly because he was trying to unlock access to scientific research that Elsevier et al were effectively squatting on. *I* am an individual author who wants to publish as widely as possible and the LLM vendors are stealing and repurposing my work for their own profits. I'm an artist: I want to be paid so I can create more art, and those fuckers are trying to devalue ALL art.

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

🚨 noyb has filed complaints against #TikTok and #Grindr. As it turns out, TikTok even tracks you while you're using other apps. For example, TikTok was able to track a person’s Grindr usage - which allows it to draw conclusions about his sexual orientation and sex life

👉 https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfully-tracks-your-shopping-habits-and-your-use-dating-apps

@cstross LLM companies have inspired me to start a business where I rob banks, and then weaken punishments for robbing.

"The [UK] Home Office failed to assess the risks that a digital-only [eVisa] scheme brings, particularly for those who are vulnerable, older, or disabled. It is also misleading in its assessment of the scheme as digital by default.”

🗣️ @sarahalsherif for ORG

Read more about our open letter to the ICO signed by 19 civil society groups ⬇️

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/ico_home_office_evisa/

#ico #evisa #migrants #migrantrights #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

Air to Ground Message:

COULD I GET A ACARS HORSE 4 MY GF PLZ FO

Area: Lansing, IL, USA
A: #a28db1e1faa
F: #fddf837025a

#acars #vdlm2

Okay wildly specific question: A friend of mine, for complex personal/artistic reasons, is trying to locate footage of specifically the concert Katy Perry performed 2023 February 15 in Las Vegas, and specifically looking for "I kissed a girl" (they found some clips from the show, implying longer recordings may exist, but nothing they found was from that song). Does anyone know where to even begin?

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

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/

In case you missed it yesterday:

I’ve uploaded a raw, 45-minute Live Bootleg on my blog. I will not publish it anywhere else.

Grab it here: https://www.kristofferlislegaard.com/blog/2025-12-15-a-gift-for-those-who-care/

Boosts appreciated 💙

#ambient #electronicmusic #musodon #BeYourOwnPlatform

UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones
Government seeks "nudity-detection algorithms" in iOS and Android, report says.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/uk-to-encourage-apple-and-google-to-put-nudity-blocking-systems-on-phones/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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