#podcast #DidierRaoult

"L’étude était en fait trafiquée, et son auteur un autocrate sans scrupules. Les alertes sur le cas Raoult et ses dérives scientifiques étaient anciennes et graves, mais il aura fallu attendre une pandémie mondiale pour que la forfaiture prenne fin."

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/affaires-sensibles/affaires-sensibles-du-jeudi-18-juin-2026-3378470

• Managed to create a user
• Sent a mail with telnet + LMTP
• Fetched it back with telnet + IMAP

So far, so good. Now to see if it works with K9/Thunderbird and mbsync - those are the two uses of imap I care about really.

@thomasfuchs They were always Nazi at heart, they just stop hiding it.

An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)

Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain

Edit: info about five foot way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-foot_way

#Singapore #TootSea

The $700k/yr-paid editor of academic labour exploitation magazine Science writing an article complaining about how AI is exploiting academic labour and making publishers lives more difficult, and then getting caught using ChatGPT to write the article, feels like the perfect end to this academic year.

@pallenberg Ja. "Glück" klingt so wie etwas, das einem zufällig passiert ist. Er hat sich aber ein Kind gekauft. Mit Plan und Vertrag und allem.

Cest quand même très drôle qu’on commence à nous demander très sérieusement de devoir choisir entre l’IA et nous pour la consommation d’eau et d’électricité.
Non mais sérieusement ? Vous posez vraiment la question ?

Ah pardon, oui, les techbros posent la question mais ont eux déjà fait leur choix… sauf que la question telle qu’ils se la posent n’est pas exactement la même. Eux, ils n’ont aucune intention de laisser LEUR eau et LEUR électricité à l’IA. On est censés leur laisser NOTRE eau et NOTRE électricité pour LEUR IA. Eux n’ont aucune intention de se « sacrifier ». Le « sacrifice » qu’ils réclament ne les concerne jamais.

@mattblaze

“Shut up he explained.”

@dysfun until gin threads is official comp sci jargon

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years. Great audio reconstruction.
Same here near Utrecht, the Netherlands: From deafening chorus to almost silent spring, in the 30 years that we've lived in the same place: 1996-2026
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/03/dawn-chorus-uk-birdsong-50-years-audio-landscape

@mattblaze "But you showed her knees!"

I kid. Thank you for the sights big and bigger.

In summary, nothing I've seen alters my general assessment (which is fairly mainstream):

- US election systems do have technical vulnerabilities, and we should definitely continue to work to make these systems better.

- There is, fortunately, no credible evidence thus far that technical vulnerabilities have ever actually been exploited to alter a US election outcome.

@shlee @Sujiyan You seem like the ideal steward.

Mr. Suji Yan: Hello!

Pixelfed, Loops, https://fedidb.com and https://fediverse.info founder here, I think you should hand this over to @shlee, who would be best suited to maintain this!

@Yaku

Eh, sei giovane!
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc

@leodurruti

I've not read all the documents yet. I read the CISA report carefully, but I've only done a sampling of the others.

There's some interesting stuff in there, but there doesn't so far seem to be anything earth-shattering or especially surprising.

@joel "parler directement aux imprimantes" sonne comme un truc de magnétiseur 🫣

Compromises of these systems are a problem because they can DISRUPT elections, which is something a foreign adversary might well want to do as part of a cyber operation. But if China (or Russia) did manage to compromise these systems, they appeared not to have actually used the capability in the actual elections (which we know because they were not noticeably disrupted).

But helping state and local government shore up these systems is definitely an important and legitimate goal.

We saw state and local election offices (and contractors they use) targeted by Russian intelligence services in the run up to the 2016 election. They compromised things like voter registration databases and software.

It would not surprise me one bit if Chinese intelligence was equally successful in 2020 (& 2024), or if Russia continued to enjoy access to these systems.

But remember, these aren't actual vote tabulators. These compromises can cause disruption, but can't easily alter votes.