Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

RE: https://mstdn.social/@alpenglow/116188791937841655

Last day! I mean you prob get a few extra hours until I wake up tomorrow and manually disable buy buttons, but yanno. Basically last day to get any Alpengoodies. ❤️

I read a README file I wrote a few weeks ago and decided it didn't have enough information, so it's now twice as long with a lot more detail.

I'm the only one who will ever read or use the file, but I have learned I cannot rely on my own memory a few months or years from now when I need to revisit the project or do something similar.

Make notes! Make more notes. It's a text file, it won't take up much space but it might save you a bunch of time in the future.

New research in Global Change Biology highlights the centennial legacy of land-use on German agricultural soils.

​It can take 180 years for soil organic carbon to stabilize after land-use change—meaning today’s carbon stocks are still shaped by history from the 1800s.

​Details: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17444

@Thuenen_aktuell

​#Soil #ClimateCrisis #AgriScience #Ecology #SoilOrganicCarbon

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI

Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

If you're a swiss resident ( or know one ... ) you can get a custom hardware design onto an ASIC for FREE !!!

You get back one chip with your design (and a bunch of others!) and some board to help bring up/testing.

Also, this is "resident", no need to be a student or at uni or anything, you just need a valid Swiss address ...

I know I might be repeating myself here because I mentioned it a few month back but this bear repeating IMHO.

https://swisschips.ethz.ch/news-and-events/tiny-tapeout-submission-form.html

PS: Can I haz boost for reach ?

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s f...

You might have noticed a new banner at our website.

It's not just IzzyOnDroid that is threatened by #Google's upcoming "developer verification" rules – it's ALL OF YOU, ALL OF US, who live in the free #Android world, and want to decide ourselves what gets installed onto our devices.

If Google gets away with this, on the majority of Android devices, you will only be able to install what THEY allow. No more freedom of choice.

Join the resistance! Act for your freedom!

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#android #opensource #keepandroidopen

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!
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#kaomojicoolclub #kaomoji #design #asciiart