kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

When Dmitry Unagaev bought his first electric car 5 years ago, the purchase bewildered friends and neighbors in Khabarovsk. Today, the city in #Russia’s Far East is full of battery-powered autos.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-12/in-russia-s-wild-east-an-electric-car-proves-cheaper-than-a-lada

Lukashenka has been exerting pressure on the EU by directing stream of refugees to the EU border, now he says he may be forced to send some dirt bomb isotopes as well. #Belarus

A nice #COVID19 impact summary

COVID hospitalisations breakdown on 9 August 2021 in Houston Medical Center

Out of 81 hospitalised, 9 vaccinated and 72 unvaccinated

Out of 23 in the ICU, 23 unvaccinated, zero vaccinated

Out of 11 on ventilators, 11 unvaccinated, zero vaccinated

😂

German "climate activist" gives a real feel of a messianic cult that #Energiewende has become:

> Niemand schlägt ernsthaft vor Deutschland solle ~alleine~ die Welt retten.
> Nobody seriously suggests Germany should save the world ~ alone ~.

You are *not* "saving the world", Louisa. Germany's CO2 emissions per kWh are as usual 5x higher than those of France, and Germany still plans to shut down 8GW of #nuclear power 🤦‍♂️

СОСЕДСКИЙ КОТ ПОВРЕДИЛ ИМУЩЕСТВО 😂

A group calling themselves “Belarusian Cyber-partisans” made a massive data breach in #Belarus 🇧🇾 Ministry of Internal Affairs.

They claim they acquired tons of information about police operations against opposition, audio recordings of calls, details of "web brigades" etc.

These will be very likely now published by opposition media like NEXTA.

The shipping industry is currently source of massive amounts of CO2 and pollution (as it runs on heavy diesel) emissions.

#nuclear propelled container ships such as this Sevmorput 🇷🇺 are the low-carbon and low-emission answer to this challenge.

Greenpeace has been talking about sails and batteries, but even their own ships run on diesel as EV ships are simply infeasible from technical point of view.

According to a new IEA study, mining doesn't undermine EV potential for reducing CO2 emissions. EVs require a lot of mined materials but lifecycle emissions are just 50% of gasoline cars, and can go down to 25% if manufacturing is powered by low carbon energy.

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions

#Snowden, living in GRU safe house in Russia, who just deployed countrywide deep-packet inspection censorship and surveillance, quoted in Russia Today, a propaganda outlet, is certainly the authority to speak on "insulting privacy" 🤦‍♂️

Marburg virus cases confirmed in Guinea by two laboratories and National Sanitary Safety Agency. ☣️

Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever virus classified as "extremely dangerous" by WHO. Last large outbreak was 2005 in Angola with 90% case fatality rate across 252 cases. Later single cases were detected in Uganda.

After migrating all services previously hosted by a rather noisy HP Microserver, my rack cabinet looks miserably empty.

From the left:

* WiFi access point antenna for outdoors LoRa gateway
* Nezha RiscV (doing nothing yet)
* Raspberry Pi 4, hosting Unifi server and access point for LoRa
* NanoPi R2S doing PPPoE, DNS and firewall

WiFi happily worked on Raspberry's built-in WiFi interface... until I placed it inside cabinet, which is why I recycled the old external WiFi device for the AP.

🇵🇱 Socha jak Socha, ale to:

> Obecna była także m.in. przedstawicielka Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Niezależnych Lekarzy i Naukowców Katarzyna Bros-Walderdorff

K..wa ja p..lę 🤦‍♂️

https://www.o2.pl/informacje/szturm-antyszczepionkowcow-w-poznaniu-byli-ubrani-w-ciuchy-wojskowe-6667572288076672a

«Тренер сказал, что это вопрос уже не на уровне федерации и Минспорта. Что меня нужно с Игр ликвидировать». Бегунья Тимановская боится попасть в тюрьму

Первое большое интервью легкоатлетки после того, как она угодила в опалу.

https://by.tribuna.com/amp/post/2949805/

Studies show COVID-19 increases the risk of developing erectile dysfunction (ED) by nearly six times.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210407/erectile-dysfunction-risk-6-times-higher-in-men-with-covid

#COVID19

In 1994 Lukashenko was happily speaking and elected himself under the white-red-white flag of #Belarus that he has now banned as "fascist"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbcF3-ppeDk

Moorabool, Australia: 13 tonne lithium #tesla battery is "fully involved with crews wearing breathing apparatus working to contain the fire and stop it spreading to nearby batteries."

https://www.frv.vic.gov.au/large-battery-fire-moorabool

Whoever tells you #renewablenergy is 100% safe and clean, they're not telling you the full truth. PV, wind and batteries are just a normal pieces of engineering, with its own dirt and risks.

Yay, from 2 August UK will accept EU vaccine certificates for fully vaccinated status and no quarantine ✨ #COVID19

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-quarantine-when-you-arrive-in-england

The price-to-earnings ratio for US stocks starts to resemble a hockey stick a bit 🙄

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

A note on Linux QoS using tc-htb and fq_codel - it won't actually shape traffic until you add "noecn". The manual says the default is dropping packets but this has apparently changed - by default it will send ECN, which is a kind suggestion to the sender to slow down.

So this trivial tc script gets me all A's in DSLReports speedtest - previously it was C on buffer bloat (which hurts latency)