kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Fascinating insight into how brain separates sensory information from memories in neurons by a clever encoding trick

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-rotates-memories-to-save-them-from-new-sensations-20210415/

Milford at Sea today. Temptation to do a swim disappeared after I submerged my feet 😬

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A website in Russia gathering people's declarations to attend protests in support of Navalny suffered a data breach, and whoever did that, they started sending threats to the people who signed up.

Unfortunately, it's yet another failure of "data hoarding marketing" attitude over privacy-focus, which should be priority *especially* when people who sign-up can be subject to state repressions.

"And I promise you..."

Risk of blood clots

Russian propaganda in Poland is easily recognised because its authors typically cannot into Polish.

An article posted on an obscure .pl portal about "banderite junta" with basic grammatical mistakes indicating clearly the author wasn't a native Polish speaker.

Of course, it may not really matter for the target audience who is far-right Polish thugs, not too inquisitive about grammar...

There is no *reactor* in Natanz. It's uranium enrichment facility which used a chemical and physical process to increase concentration of desired uranium isotope but no nuclear reactions and no nuclear reactor.

Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) — Polish Internal Security Agency. The moment when you're wondering if a security agency is seriously replacing their home page with "happy Easter" banner, or hoping their website was just defaced - these days it happens to the best after all...

Open letter from Syrian writers and intellectuals on human rights situation in #Syria 🇸🇾 with a special focus on media coverage in the West

https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/erasing-people-through-disinformation-syria-and-%E2%80%9Canti-imperialism%E2%80%9D-fools

"Долой Пасху!" - "Get rid of Easter" (USSR, 1920)

(Photo: Claire Hansell)

Someone backdoored official #php distro to execute custom code if an app is accessed with User-Agent containing "zerodium" string... 🤔

https://therecord.media/hackers-backdoor-php-source-code-after-internal-repo-hack/ #security

This little crap #lorawan beacon with 3 cm antenna and powered by a single 18650 cell was heard from Pen-y-Fan peaks (next to the green "B...n" icon in the middle, stands for Brecon) at the coast of Irish Sea (far to the left).

After checking on a map I got... distance of 80 km! 😮

For reference, this was SF12BW125 so the slowest LoRaWAN rate where ~50 bytes took 1.4 sec to transmit, but this apparently gives pretty impressive distance.

Polish church edits its online transmission from Sunday mass to pretend social-isolation is being enforced 😂 Basically, they pasted static photos with empty benches on the left and on the right, while center shows actual video.

For Polish readers: that's bazylika św. Małgorzaty w Nowym Sączu

And this is the Evergreen ship photographed from International Space Station by cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov:

I see these fantastic Huawei E8372 modems are no longer very popular on eBay and just wondering if there's anything better on the market these days?

I need:

* 4G/LTE modem
* with Wi-Fi access point
* and external MIMO antenna sockets (!)

Plenty of E3372 (no Wi-Fi) and E8372 with no antenna connectors sold, but I need specifically to connect a high-gain antenna in the mountains.

"Soviet military intelligence", Victor Suvorov, 1984