It's 35 years since the first British person went into space. Helen Sharman was a 27-year-old food scientist when she stumbled upon a job ad to be part of an Anglo-Soviet commercial venture, Project Juno. Sharman told BBC News in 1991: "All along the selection process, I never really believed that it could be me."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260518-helen-sharman-the-story-behind-the-first-british-person-in-space

You can find my original analysis here:
https://rys.io/en/179.html

tl;dr: for every device, Telegram generates a long-term identifier, auth_key_id, that is then prepended *cleartext* (or at best, trivially obfuscated) to every encrypted packet; this allows anyone with sufficient visibility into global Telegram traffic to spy on its users.

And you can find IStories' reporting from last year here:
https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

tl;dr Telegram seems to be using a single networking provider globally, and that provider seems to be connected to FSB.

Which would provide the FSB just the kind of visibility into global Telegram traffic that would be needed to be able to spy on users using the long-term identifier.

Basically the European Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas, is saying out loud what everybody knows: Men want to win more than they want peace.

"Women focus on things that male-dominated negotiators are not focusing on such as education, health, victims' rights, social reconciliation (and) community: things that really bring people together rather than a zero-sum game, which men tend to do."

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/18/a-lot-of-masculinity-in-the-room-kallas-argues-for-greater-female-participation-in-diploma

#europe #women #equality #war #men #military #patriarchy

Various projects on the open social web are working towards private data, whether that's @Mastodon getting funding for adding E2EE, Lemmy's upcoming 1.0 release featuring private communities, or Bluesky's work on expanding atproto with permissioned data.

Bounded communities with private data using open protocols sound quite like @matrix however.

I'm taking a closer look, as this comparison turns out to be quite a lot stranger than expected

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr163-decrypting-matrix/

Man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-facebook-arrest-tennessee-bushart-b8c5808d77f47a2d93497d12cf0daf84

Hellooooo to the fediverse (or at least this particular corner of it). I apologize in advance for my long overdue, long-winded, and no doubt embarrassing introduction.

My name is n0madz, and I like to read, run, listen to music, game on my pc, play around with linux (arch and hyprland btw), and generally explore what it means to express oneself in a digital fashion.

I'm a parent of one soon-to-be 4 year old (lil person runs circles around me on a regular basis); I lean to the far left politically and ideologically; I'm anti-racist, antifascist, and pro all things LGBTQIA. I'm generally disappointed in the current state of humanity (for reason of explanation I am sadly based in the US).

I'm generally piss poor at social media, by which I mean I lurk WAY more than I post (if this was radio, I'd be a first time caller, long time listener), but I'm making a promise to myself to try and do better (only time will tell).

Socially-wise, I used to be on the fediverse, self-hosted on a very smol corner of the interweb called wzrds.fun (RIP), and I had an alt account here in social.lol. For one reason or another, those accounts were closed and wzrds.fun shut down.

All that being said, I found that out of all the social media platforms I've tried and lost interest in, I missed my time in the fediverse, so here I am reborn and resurrected once again.

If you made it this far, (1) well done and thank you for sticking with me! and (2) please boost, favorite, and/or follow (I'll gladly follow you back as I rebuild my algo). I also strongly encourage and appreciate any and all recommendations.

P.S., you can also find me on bookwyrm (another one of my alt's that has been active without interruption, I love a good book). -> @n0madz@bookwyrm.social

#Introduction

@404mediaco it’s almost like making your entire community suffer has repercussions.

@catileptic It is something about which I know absolutely nothing - I have only ever been in monogamous relationships - so it is particularly interesting!

Pause. What's the weather like? Don't use an app to find out.

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something):

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

A short thread
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There are so many interesting old science machines on our campus in #hamburg. So this time I check out the #DESY bubble chamber!

In 1966, scientists in Hamburg created antiprotons out of light for the first time ⚡ and measured them with this cool old gear. #particlephysics #wissenschaft #physics #scicomm

@catsalad I just did. To be fair, after a work day and feeling blergh.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/116606591908387955

If you want on to Microsoft's internal network, CORPNET, publish or own an existing a VSCode extension.

The Visual Studio Code Marketplace, which Microsoft own, is completely uncontrolled.

Anybody can publish an extension, it provides code execution on endpoints, extensions auto update by default, "verified" blue tick extensions just need any domain registration, and there's no endpoint security controls at all around what users can install.

VSCode is an absolute security shittip as a result.

@BillySmith @meulop @simon_brooke Amsterdam has had electric buses for years. Almost all the buses in the city are electric. When I was last in the UK and got on a diesel bus it was such a shock. So shaky and smelly

@cstross I happen to be rereading Halting State by the seaside today.
Still good.

Deals: M3 iPad Air $400 off, 1TB M5 iPad Pro all-time low, 24GB M5 MacBook Pro $1,499, Apple Watch Ultra 3, more https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/deals-ipad-air-ipad-pro-macbook-pro-apple-watch-ultra-3/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Apple’s three goals for iOS 27 sound like a big win for users https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/apples-three-goals-for-ios-27-sound-like-a-big-win-for-users/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Sovereignty and the AI Stack are a constant discussion.

Join us on 5th June in Edinburgh to explore what AI sovereignty is, do we need it and how open it should be.

With Mark Boost, Civo and Locai Labs, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VideoLAN; Camilla de Coverly Veale, Mozilla; and Sachiko Muto, OpenForum Europe.

See the speakers, schedule and get tickets at https://stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-soocon26

#opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #openhq #aiscotland #AI #aimodels #aiagents

Thanks @erictapen@chaos.social for creating this need FEP-8a8e compliance checker. We already integrated it into our CI to support the development of #activitypub into #LAUTI.

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