kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

If you were still thinking that behavioral profiling is not creepy... #adtech #privacy

The plant-microbial fuel cell (P-MFC) is a new technology for sustainable and in-situ production of electricity from living plants (Strik, 2008). The P-MFC makes use of electrochemically-active bacteria that catalyse the anaerobic oxidation of rhizodeposits at the roots of plants. By connecting the plant roots and bacteria directly to an electrical circuit, current will flow as a result of oxygen reduction at the other end of the circuit.
http://waternexus.nl/research/p-mfc/

A pleasant surprise in Sankt Petersburg - snow!

Sankt Petersburg

UK has around 1/3 of total wind power installed in Europe, yet over the last day it was mostly burning gas at ~300 gCO2eq/kWh because... "installed" only works if there's wind. Compare to France at ~80 gCO2eq.

Today with no wind and cloud cover over EU non-nuclear countries are running coal and gas mostly, emitting plenty of CO2 and other pollution.

My Internet café - after a hour walking up and down the hill I found a magic spot with decent HSPA access. Altitude 1400 m.

For the next 2 weeks...

Why has UK nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C increased over three times?

https://medium.com/@Jorisvandorp/the-hinkley-point-c-case-is-nuclear-energy-expensive-f89b1aa05c27

Weekend achievements: 1) spin a private #matrix instance on Synapse, 2) get Telegram bot working, 3) get WhatsApp bot workig. This way I can get rid of both #telegram and #whatsapp [*] apps from my #android device.

On the screenshot - Matrix chat client with a number of private WhatsApp chats open and a number of Telegram groups I'm subscribed to.

It pisses me off each time when people - especially in the US - call "socialism" anything that is even lightly associated with public services.

Another such tribe are fans of #socialism who claim that Marx invented them.

Here's the last Adam Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (1776), frequently quoted by the "defenders" of #liberalism as the "founding father of market economy".

Both tribes, please go and read.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm

A nice piece of research posted on #ssb

Basic IPv6 Troubleshooting Commands (I) / IPv6 Rosetta Stone 2019 #ipv6 https://theinternetprotocolblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/basic-ipv6-troubleshooting-commands-i-ipv6-rosetta-stone-2019/

This infographic explains why civil society across the globe is fighting to stop the sale of .ORG domain & keep our digital home safe.
https://savedotorg.org/

A comparison of various energy sources - solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, gas, coal, geothermal - as to their CO2 emissions, material usage and waste generation. Very detailed and packed with data.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58254e216a496325c2d90145/t/5d7f521604589d021776ea31/1568625202486/BNW+EEcommittee+nuclear+submission_160919_FINAL.pdf #nuclear #renewable #co2

"Alt-right ... have begun to look abroad, seeking to find the spiritually unified, ethnically pure nations that, they imagine, are morally stronger than their own. Nations, for example, such as Russia"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/false-romance-russia/603433/

#nginx is one of the most recognised (not necessarily attributed...) products of Russian IT industry, powering most of the Internet as we know today.

Today police raidet Nginx office in Moscow due to a Russian portal Rambler filing a copyright violation claim on Nginx code.

Granted that Nginx was just acquired by F5 and in parallel Sberbank acquired large share of Rambler, it looks like a regular business-class extortion attempt to me.

How surprising! ;) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bbq4/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast #amazon #privacy #ring

Tested the #Ethereum ENS, which is a name resolution protocol that lives fully in the ETH blockchain and allows using names like webcookies.eth instead of hex addresses. There's also DNS -> ENS feature that imports DNSSEC-protected ETH addresses declared in regular DNS (currently only .xyz TLD).

If you're using MetaMask or other ENS enabled wallet, you can try to enter webcookes.eth or webcookies.xyz in the Send form (no need to send anything) and you'll see it resolved into my 0xDA... address.