Because using children as guinea pigs is unethical. The cure is uncertain and there are known risks.

We have geo-engineered our way into this climate crisis

Before considering a ban, we should start by fairly taxing flights and burning of fossil fuel in general. That would include closing the loophole that makes plane ticket and plane fuel exempt of taxes. And of course a carbon tax.

That'd be probably enough to significantly reduce pollution from flights and data centers.

They're looking for a way to save the live of people in respiratory distress, such as intensive care patient with Covid19 and damaged lungs.

Doctors and biology researchers need to move passed the ick factor sometimes to make progress. Joking about it is a good way to do that.

Link to other sources are welcome.

I searched for sources and picked this article as it's both relatively exhaustive, and one of the firsts ones published on this topic.

Gambling and loosing your life savings has never been easier!

Emmanuel Macron l’assume d’ailleurs "totalement"

Par expérience, je devienne que quand E Macron dit qu'il assume, il ne veut pas dire qu'il va démissionner.

Quid de la trêve hivernale dans ce cas?

Je craint que ça ne soit une faille qui permette de passer outre les lois qui protègent les locataires.

That's a good point. The legal defense fund might still be a good idea, with enough publicity it could get donations.

Thanks for sharing.

Are there more details available on roundtrip efficiency? I doubt this can compete against pumped hydro, given it has a very high efficiency. But that might be useful in situations where it's not possible to use more efficient options.

An idea: use some of that money to start or contribute to a legal defense fund for drags and queer people.

There's so much lies and hate in some places/groups. If more victims had access to a decent lawer to defend themselves, politicians would think twice before launching random accusations.

Thankfully, regulators aren't betting on perfect reliability to keep these power plants safe. Critical systems need to have double redundancy.

Thanks for the links, it's interesting background. In that article from February 2021, The Artlantic states "There was also never a default".

There was indeed no default as of February 2021. The default occured later, in April-May 2022, so we can't expect a past article to include that information.

All major lenders need to take part in restructuring the debt indeed. That occured in 2023, and multiple lenders asked for a restructuring deal similar to the first one signed with China. I don't know about the US, but Japan/India/French lender were looking for a similar restructuration terms. That sounds fair to me.

A debt rework between Sri Lanka and countries including Japan, India and France was also expected this week, but news of the EXIM deal took them by surprise. The three nations request comparability of debt treatment with China.

"As far as the information we have is concerned, conditions set by China are comparable to ours," Kanda said.

The country's default is clear evidence the overall debt wasn't sustainable. Both Sri Lanka and its lenders have a responsibility on this. China is often the first mentioned because it was (still is?) Sri Lanka's biggest foreign lender, although it would be good to have transparency of the country's debt and interest rates on a per-lender basis, to see which ones are the most sustaonables.

The 2022 bloomberg article you cite first state:

It didn’t provide details on the value of the loans which it said matured at the end of 2021, nor did it state which nations owed the money.

I couldn't read much further due to the paywal.

The Bloomberg article has too few details to make conclusions. We don't know if AP and Bloomberg articles are referring to the same countries, nor whether it's a significant portion or that country's debt toward China.

The Reuters 2021 article has more details, and cite write-offs, as well as specific countries benefiting from deferrals: Angola, Pakistan, Kenya, the Republic of Congo. It's good to read there's some willingness to accomodate some countries.

Sadly that didn't prevent Zambia and Sri Lanka from defaulting. China has lended hundred of billion of dollars with unsustainable terms, and this contributed to countries defaulting. That's a bad situation for everyone involved.

Et il n'a même pas annoncé ses intentions pour 2032 et 2037 ?

On nous préviens au dernier moment, comme toujours. /s

I hope Tanzania and Zambia read the fine pints on the loan/inversement agreement.

That's true. If there's lots of flexibility in the energy consumption, then it would be easy to keep adding lots of renewable. And there's lot of potential for demand flexibility.

In reality there's limited flexibility, in part due to laziness and inertia. So adding more solar is giving diminishing returns. Which means adding solar gets harder to do economically as the share of renewable increase.

There need to be better incentives for flexibility in demand (ie push consumer to shift energy usage) and for storage (ie give energy producers bonuses depending on the amount of energy storage they have available).

Knowledge of the account is an obvious caveat. Yubikey-based MFA is an added layer of protection for accounts, so any kind of attack against MFA assumes the attacker already knows which account to target.

It's like saying "our door lock is flawed, but the attacker would need to have knowledge of the door".

The cost and complexity is what's noteworthy and is more relevant. Although attack cost and complexity usuallu goes down with advances in tooling and research. So it may be a good idea to plan a progressive retirement of affected keys.

Vas y gros, qu'on rigole un peu.

La situation est intenable pour de multiple raisons. Macron qui refuse de nommer la candidate de la NFP, quitte à ce qu'elle soit censurée. Les différents partis de gauche/droite/centre qui annonce d'avance qu'ils censurons de toute façon si c'est Castets (ou si ca n'est pas elle) sans avoir même essayé de négocier un compromis de coalition. Les médias qui amplifient la moindre querelle de clocher.

Construire des logements oui mais pas n'importe comment. Sans politique d'urbanisme bien pensée, on perpétue ou crée des déséquilibres (cités dortoirs, quartier non mixtes) ou de l'étalement urbain (45min de voiture pour aller travailler).

Un exemple : Les projets de centre administratif/commerciaux géants impliquent une grosse demande de logements pour les fonctionnaires/employés qui vont y travailler. Mais aucun ou trop peu de logements sont prévus dans le quartier pour répondre au besoin créé.

While that's true, but there's no indication of Microsoft brute forcing with million of combinations.

The article you link says Microsoft is only trying a few obvious passwords: the filename, and words found in the plaintext message.

Proper encryption isn't just about using a strong algorithm. It's also about proper key management, ie not sending the password in the clear via the same channel as the encrypted files.

Better late than never.

Très bonne nouvelle !

Je suspecte que ça n'est pas seulement l'environnement qui motive la banque, mais aussi le risque que ces sociétés ne soient pas viables à long terme, et pourraient être incapable dans ce cas de rembourser leurs emprunts.

Donc tout ce qui rends les énergies fossiles moins viable est une bonne chose tousse taxe carbone tousse

ZIP isn't a good way to encrypt, but what Microsoft is doing is simply reading the email, and decrypting zips with the password found in the email body.

All encryptions schemes can be trivially broken if you have the key. It's not even breaking, it's just normal decryption.

Scientists don't have to explain why they're leaving twitter. The reasons should be obvious to anyone familiar with Twitter.

Journalists need to explain why they're still on Twitter, given that platform has so much bots, trolls, hate and lack moderation.

faire exploser une couscoussière

Hélas, ça n'est pas Le Gorafi

Sodas

We have geo-engineered our way into this climate crisis

Well said.

AI is the new "the dog ate my homework"

Cela reviendrait à exclure les personnes ayant des horaires difficile à prévoir.

Le vendredi soir mon heure de départ en w-e n'est pas fixe a cause travail. Si la ligne de TER est régulière (proche de 1/heure) et sans réservation c'est possible pour moi de l'utiliser.

Hélas la tendance vas dans le sens contraire : soucis de régularité, billets de moins en moins flexible au fil des ans (disparition du billet valable toute la journée, disparition du billet A-R valable 7 jours). Et bientôt réservation des places? Je n'arriverait plus jamais à prendre un billet

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Je cherchais la communauté fiction/sci-fi/fantaisie et ait trouvé celle ci en épluchant la liste des communautés.

Le titre de cette communauté n'est pas super évident, je n'aurais jamais pensé à rechercher "imaginaire" et sans regarder la liste complète je j'aurais jamais trouvé celle ci.

It's unfortunate that so much susidies go into burning wood, and fossil fuel.

I looked into a local nonprofit that support renewables, and it focus on biomass, less so on solar, and didn't focus of wind at all (because of scale and upfront cost). Because of that focus on biomass and uncertainty on emissions from biomass I stayed away from them.

Amazon deserves being called out for this kind of ridiculous service: paying every month so that a device you brought don't nag you with ads.

I get that a company would show ads in their newspaper, video streaming, or online service to make producing the content financially viable. But ads on a device people buy to display their own family pictures is ridiculous. Whoever thought people would welcome this idea lacks common sense.

An obvious alternative is shipping large containers to local distributors and warehouses, and to recycle and fill bottles locally.

That'd probably bring its own sets of challenges, like requiring each distributor to ensure hygyene, pasteurization, labeling of bottles, ...

Nice.

Does Forgejo support Git? I'm not familiar with Forgejo, and it's not obvious in this announcement or their homepage.

Forgejo does support Git, I didn't read carefully enough.

Philippe Poutou, avec Guillaume Meurice à la culture, Martine Tondelier à l'écologie, Lucie Castets pour l'économie et les finances, Karim Bouamrane à l'intérieur, Gérarld Darmanin à l'extérieur.

I was about to say people can walk and chew gum. But this kind of miss the point.

This is not space exploration, this is not for science's sake. This is about extracting resources, and making a profit. I heard one of these companies perpetuate the idea that there's virtually infinite resource, which imply we can continue with humanity's exponential growth without negative consequences. That mindset landed us in the inextricable mess we're in.

Quite the contrary.

Password hashing is standard nowadays.

When a database is compromised, brute forcing hashes is necessary to recover passwords, and the short ones are the first ones to be recovered.