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@yogthos

> food wouldn't be produced to be wasted

How do you predict *precisely* how many portions of food you sell tomorrow?

You can't. So either you produce too much (surplus) or too little (Marxian economy). Surplus ("waste") was one of the main points of Marxian criticism of capitalism - so socialism said it will do it better and ended up with totally crap "economy of shortage" (JΓ‘nos Kornai).

> the food safety argument makes no sense

Yes, tell that to taxman and lawmakers.

@yogthos It's not capitalism, it's regulation. In most countries shops or restaurants are forbidden from giving away food for free by both food safety and tax laws. In most, people receiving it would also need to pay income tax.

This is likely the most comprehensive article on security keys available. Secure Authentication is the security domain that I am most interested in and this piece lights me up like a Christmas tree

How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys. A look into YubiKeys, TOTP authenticator apps, passwordless and more.

paulstamatiou.com/getting-star

@glitcher32 I'm afraid my memory is to small to remember all of my passwords :) Gradually migrating to U2F where possible though.

@glitcher32 LastPass was really cool innovation back then as I migrated from password-encrypted ODS file with ~400 passwords :)

Today threat landscapes have changed, so anything cloud-based doesn't really look trustworthy to me.

@gabek Trivial - export CSV from LP, import into KPXC - 5 mins. Just make sure to get the fields order right when importing.

Goodbye LastPass, it's been a good 11 years (I've been perhaps one of the first premium users) but KeePassXC is open-source and works just as well!

NordVPN breach was worse than I thought.

'TechCrunch took NordVPN to task on the somewhat dismissive tone of its breach disclosure, noting that the company suffered a significant breach that went undetected for more than a year.

Kenneth White, director of the Open Crypto Audit Project, said on Twitter that based on the dumped Pastebin logs detailing the extent of the intrusion, β€œthe attacker had full remote admin on their Finland node containers.” '

krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/av

@nikolal @freemo @ScottMortimer

There's quite a lot of interesting research on this on PubMed:

"Our results suggest that the majority of the examined sites contain natural uranium, while the area of Kosovo appears to be most heavily afflicted by depleted uranium pollution, followed by Bosnia & Herzegovina. Furthermore, the results indicate that it is not possible to make a valid correlation between the health effects and depleted uranium-contaminated areas." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/283951

Right now go to reddit preferences and untick "allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization" (under privacy options)

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@ScottMortimer

Yup nothing new there. In fact 5G and other modern antenna are lower in power unlike in the past when the frequencies we used (same ones by the way) had MUCH more power pumped into them.

So in fact thats just cognitive bias. you see more devices and assume that means more exposure. But in fact its the opposite, more devices means lower power per atenna (and device) and thus overall lower exposure, not higher.

Luckily the extremely high historic exposure did give us one benefit. More than enough data to know its safe, even at higher power levels.

@nikolal

@nikolal @freemo @ScottMortimer There are many places I know in Poland and Russia that never saw *any* depleted uranium, yet particular cancer rates are higher than elsewhere.

The problem with Eastern Europe is that it was polluted beyond any standards first by communist industry, then in modern times by "entrepreneurs" engaged in car parts recovery, large-scale illegal waste storage and regular citizens dumping or burning rubbish everywhere.

@nikolal

I understand the paranoia, I really do. But the science in this case is not hard to follow and should help address the paranoia.

I'm not suggesting you rely on anyone else, just try to understand the science as to why these frequencies dont cause cancer. The individual photons just dont have the energy to ionize electrons off of single atoms. The research confirms this, but even basic understanding of physics should make it evident why that is the case.

@ScottMortimer

@nikolal

Why would time need to tell? The frequency and power used in 5G has been in use for a long time already. You've already been bathing in 5G frequencies 25Ghz) for a long time along with the rest of society.

No need for time to tell, time already has told. 5G is a new protocol, but the frequency itself is not.

@ScottMortimer

@nikolal

Sure.

So first off no legitimate sources say "it is harmful under 150 meters".

In fact every study we have that has passed scrutnity has told us that the frequency and power involved in 5G is harmless even if you happen to be standing right in front of the tower.

There is an exception to this. I know of one study where they pumped twns of thousands times the power you would be exposed to by standing right in font of a tower into a cage of rats over extended periods of exposure. In this particular study a very small percentage of male rate showed some cancer while none of th female rates did. The numbers were so small however, even in this exagerated case, and the sample size was so small, it is hard to tell if the cancer we saw was just random or actually the result of the EM, because even at such insanely high levels it appeared that if there was an effect on cancer, that effect was very small.

So is it measurable, yes it is, but the thing is, 5G frequencies at any power level (withink reason) are well within safety margins because these frequencies simply dont cause cancer, it isnt a power issue (for the most part)

When it comes to cancer and radiation it all come sdown to frequency. Pump up the frequency high enough and even at low power it will easily cause cancer. But around the 25 ghz range you cant get cancer even if you tried, you can sleep on top of a transmitting cell antenna (they are actually very low power) and you'll be fine.

@ScottMortimer

@ScottMortimer The frequencies and power range for 5G were studied for a very long time before anyone even considered using them for cell phones.

They have been studied as well as in general use for other protocols for a very long time.

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