Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

The sky was showing off yesterday

There’s a pretty good look at unanswered questions the MSRC blog on the Microsoft 365 customer data breach in this: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft-corporate-account-led-to-azure-breach-by-chinese-hackers/

Unsurprisingly MS aren’t using words like ‘breach’, ‘vulnerability’ etc when clearly it was both. It’s almost like there’s misaligned incentives.

Other obvious issues include a compromise in 2021 where the threat actor took process dumps etc but nobody checked what they were doing (you live and learn etc), no HSMs etc. Assume MS are compromised.

We are doing the opposite of everything we should be doing as the 'unexpected' summer Covid wave impacts hospitals. If it is this bad now with 30% of beds occupied via hospital acquired infection, imagine the disaster that will unfold this winter.

No outbreak declared because government and public health want to preserve their image

#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vancouver-island-no-outbreak-1.6959369?cmp=rss&utm_source=press.coop

So I'm finally basically done with twitter - now using it only to reply to people or promote products, but man does it suck for a lot of artists. Twitter was never a big part of my business, but for some people it was the popular streetcorner they did their work. For them it's just lost money that they won't get back. The modern all-social Internet is brutal.

Hope other browser developers realize chromium is a ticking time bomb. I’ve used firefox for over 15 years and see no reason to change with the current landscape of browsers being so reliant on google .

The reality on the ground is that as soon as the UK's Online Safety bill becomes law then the de-facto assumption must be that any service provider with significant exposure to the UK might be under a notice that mandates the compromise the security and/or privacy of that service.

The statement made today - explicitly designed to defuse any tension that might have held up the bill - only re-enforces that position.

The framing that this is a "win" for online privacy is deeply disingenuous.

“A species of bamboo found all over Japan – Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis – is about to flower for the first time in 120 years, and then die.”

https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plants/bamboo-flowering-die/

“Health-care workers at a hospital on Vancouver Island are sounding the alarm about the fast spread of COVID-19 at the facility in the last few weeks, after public health officials said they would not declare it an outbreak because of ‘negative connotations.’”

These “public health” officials need to be fired.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vancouver-island-no-outbreak-1.6959369

I haven't seen many monarch butterflies this year so I spent extra time photographing this beautiful butterfly.

The large and brilliantly-colored monarch butterfly is among the most easily recognizable of the butterfly species that call North America home.

https://pixels.com/featured/beautiful-monarch-butterfly-chad-meyer.html

#butterfly #nature #insect #zinnia #flower #monarch

Contrived
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/contrived (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

Because we need to celebrate the #XRISM launch!

#XRISM #astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #SciArt

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
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Littoral combat #ships were supposed to launch the #Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their #weapons never worked.

Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.

#Military #DefenseSpending #Pentagon #LCS #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

While I believe the fediverse is the best way forward for social media, and hope Twitter emigrants will choose a truly decentralized future, the immediate goal should be to make the deadbird site irrelevant for everyone who wants a refuge from the rancid extremism that Musk is promoting there.

Let's welcome the people who come here -- and help them make the move.

Both #XRISM and #SLIM have now separated from the H-IIA rocket 🚀

Interesting - was just flipping through this (https://www.kansascityfed.org/Jackson%20Hole/documents/9744/Jones-handout.pdf) And he noted that as society gets less sexist/racist, talent gets better allocated. I wonder how much total factor productivity gain over the last century came from just... not actively damaging the lives of talented people? That's nice but suggests future gains will be harder, right?

“The start of the deceleration to the landing on the Moon’s surface is expected to be a breathless, numbing 20 minutes of terror!” says Kushiki Kenji.

The "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon" (SLIM) is a technology demonstration designed to land on sloped terrain within 100m of the target spot. This is a factor of 10 better than conventional landers can achieve! Such precision is needed for future crewed exploration on the Moon and Mars.

More here! 🔗 :
https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/20-minutes-of-terror-slim-will-attempt-a-pin-point-accurate-landing-on-the-lunar-surface/

“This is puzzling,” notes Yamaguchi Hiroya. “Currently, we have virtually no idea of what is really going on at the centre of clusters.”

The XRISM X-ray space telescope was jointly developed by JAXA and NASA. This is the rebirth of the ASTRO-H/Hitomi telescope, that was lost in 2016.

Measuring diffuse super hot gas is surprisingly difficult, and no previous telescope has been able to see many of these structures, such as the action inside galaxy clusters.

More here 🔗
https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/as-xrism-prepares-to-launch-what-might-the-telescope-reveal-about-the-largest-structures-in-our-universe/

#JAXA have launched the #XRISM X-ray space telescope for studying the hottest gas in the Universe, and #SLIM: a "smart lander" for making a high-precision landing on the lunar surface (essential tech for future crewed missions).

It's 10 minutes into the flight and so far, everything seems to be going well.

English live feed 📺 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4ZMp4a2xw

My first post in Mastodon!
I'm Nosrat, I'm doing my PhD in computational neuroscience in university of Geneva.
I’m working on understanding underlying dynamics via direct measurement of neural spiking under the supervision of Timothée Proix.
A repost would be amazing as I’m finding my network here in Mastodon.
#neuroscience #computationalneuroscience