#Eurobarometer has just published[^1] results of “European citizens’ knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology” study, with fascinating results. Polish professor Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska has conveniently summarised the most important conclusions for #Poland which I quote below.

• Almost 40% of Poles do not believe in human evolution.
• 32% believe that humans lived alongside dinosaurs.
• 52% do not believe in anthropogenic climate change.
• We rank first (over 50% of Poles) in terms of the belief that ‘lasers work by focusing sound waves’. This is an 8% increase compared to the previous survey.
• 50% of Poles believe that ‘viruses are produced in government laboratories to control our freedom’.
• 51% of Poles claim that antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria.
• 45% of Poles believe that a cure for cancer exists but that this information is being concealed by the pharmaceutical lobby.
• We rank second (~80%) in terms of the belief that science is unnecessary in everyday life or has no impact on our daily lives.

The chart I’m posting below shows how Polish society is happily jumping head first into the cult of irrationalism and ignorance…

[^1]: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3227

Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.

Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!

Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏

We're absolutely thrilled to announce a new era of high-speed syncing for the open source ecosystem!

DAVx⁵ 4.5 will ship with full Push support (instant sync) for your Contacts, Events & Tasks!

We've worked on this for almost 3yrs from the first line of writing a draft for a (hopefully new) standard, to the work on a @nextcloud extension until the final DAVx5 implementation.

Videos:

Shorts version: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fWhaLgcrcvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TWb5U6pPYg

Full announcement:

https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose/releases/tag/v4.5-ose

Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
https://www.istories.media/stories/2025/06/10/kak-telegram-svyazan-s-fsb/

English version by OCCRP:
http://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy