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Success 🙂 BepiColombo’s transfer propulsion module has separated from the two science spacecraft, another major step in this mission to study Mercury.

This was confirmed by a change in the doppler shift of the signal coming from Bepi as its trajectory changed slightly.

Lots of smiles & clapping here at ESOC 👍

But this isn’t over yet – it’ll be a while, 90 minutes or longer, before we hear again from the main science spacecraft, when it has rebooted & reoriented, then sends signals home.

Citizen Lab (in collab with SHARE) release report on Serbian student protest movement activist hit with a zero-click Pegasus infection, targeting iOS.

ICYMI Pegasus is an esp. evil flavour of mercenary spyware, allowing "an attacker to do anything that a user can do, ranging from accessing private data like notes, pictures and even encrypted messages [...] to covertly enable the phone’s microphone and camera."

It's made by NSO Group, Israel. We can guess their client.

https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-serbian-activist/

I'm probably going to have to go back to doing #Java Spring Boot soon. Anyone here doing this on #nvim? IntelliJ is good but I've grown partial to Normal Mode and not invalidating my cache and restarting

@halcy now go and watch Jet Lag. The current season already has some amazing Tom Scott moments and we aren’t even that far in.

1/2 Mounting allegations over unreported foreign funding and donation breaches at Reform UK demand immediate regulatory action. Posing as champions of ordinary voters while funnelling dark money into campaigns destroys public trust. Why ignore electoral finance rules? 🏛️ #FBPE https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-reform-uk-donation-funding-breach-b3044407.html

I used to merely disagree with Tailwind but I am coming to actively dislike it

@jschwart It certainly wasn't promoted from within the developer core (most devs want to get paid) but many of the most enthusiastic free software evangelists (at least, when I was coming up in the FOSS world) were former WAREZ dealers for whom the idea of paid (l)OSS was sacrilegious.

@arstechnica Worst day to be a lab assistant

ooh, a bug report I filed seven years ago got fixed today. I no longer use the software in question and eventually decided I'd prefer different alternatives but it's nice to see the issue get closed with a fix anyway

In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.

Citizen Lab (in collab with SHARE) release report on Serbian student protest movement activists hit with zero-click Pegasus infections, targeting iOS.

ICYMI Pegasus is an esp. evil flavour of mercenary spyware, allowing "an attacker to do anything that a user can do, ranging from accessing private data like notes, pictures and even encrypted messages [...] to covertly enable the phone’s microphone and camera."

It's made by NSO Group, Israel. We can guess their client.

https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-serbian-activist/

Hey #Eleventy experts, I have metadata in a metadata file that contains my email address. How can Eleventy do HTML Entity Encoding on that email upon building? I am having trouble finding it on the web. #BuildAwesome

Same here, except I don't even have a wife

@ajroach42 If I ever found a good piece of software I'd fall over in shock.

Wife thinks I don't like to celebrate my birthday because I'm scared of ageing. It's not that at all, it's because if I celebrate it I'm reminded that I have no friends of my own, they're all her friends and I don't really share a connection with any of them.

@mattblaze @me_valentijn Yep

When Pabu does the full dangly paws, it shows off just how absurdly long his legs are

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

@Da_Gut I'll probably start it tonight.