Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology

whatever happens in life, always remember that the bug emoji is perfectly positioned to play the sax emoji 🎷🐛

@hbons Ice skating in the streets!

📢 We are hiring ! #fediHire

My group is looking for 2️⃣ #research scientists in the field of #satellite 🛰️ remote sensing and data processing, to work in #Norway

One position (Tromsø or Oslo) will mostly be about #climate #SeaIce remote sensing from passive microwave sensors:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294200/researcher

The other position (Bergen or Oslo) is mostly about #Ocean remote sensing from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294199/researcher-scientific-programmer

Both are 2-year positions, in the context of several projects we have with the #EuropeanSpaceAgency.

Please help and boost 🙌 .

@PolarBremen @Ruth_Mottram @SigneAaboe

The science is unimpeachable: human-made art makes you laugh, laughter releases endorphins, endorphins are basically tiny maintenance workers repairing your insides, and boom: you’ve just extended your warranty.

And unlike intermittent fasting, we’re offering you a path to longevity that involves more laughter, not less food.

Becoming a patron isn’t just supporting an artist. It’s an investment in your own continued existence. Your move, mortal.

https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas/join

For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.

But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.

They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!
[JM]

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

This Saturday more than 50 kids from the High School of Mathematics OMG "Akademik Kiril Popov" in Plovdiv soldered their first RISC-V Open Source hardware retro like computer RVPC and played TETRIS on it https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/risc-v-eur-1-retro-computer-soldering-workshop-at-high-school-of-mathematics-in-plovdiv/ #riscv #retrocomputing #workshop #soldering

"After 2 centuries of 'energy transitions', humanity has never burned so much oil and gas, so much coal, and so much wood."

Solar and renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels, just as EVs aren't replacing gas-powered cars.

There is no energy transition.

It's just more and more and more...

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OKAY big day today! I am so so so so happy to officialy launch Kaomoji Cool Club version 2 today!

https://kaomojicool.club

Please share it with the world!
1/6

#kaomojicoolclub #kaomoji #design #asciiart

Lost science... :/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/science/trump-lostscience-genetics-henn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.SobF.SJH6SFLTN4m_

"We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-blacknest-doxxing-israel-potestors-united-states

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. https://www.reuters.com/business/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-us-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-06/

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The big 1422 partner polycule that values my privacy. 🥴🙃

When I see such banners I close the webpage.

Les braves cyclistes sous la neige. Bd Arago, Paris 14ème.

#velotaf #paris #tempeteDeNeige #paris14

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

“look man we both know you don’t wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here’s the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I’m not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar”
“an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?”
“this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!”