kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

An US tort-law firm is publishing misleading ads about an effective #hiv drug on Facebook to lure its users to file lawsuits against its manufacturer. This extremely cynical sector of business was also behind the anti-vaccine and anti-GMO propaganda out there.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/14/facebook-prep-anti-hiv-drug-misinformation

"«Ботаникам» не мешали копаться в своих компьютерах, и в итоге они сделали в России телеком-революцию и создали одни из самых успешных в мире интернет-компаний. По аналогии можно представить себе, какой была бы страна, если и в другие сферы жизни не входили бы «силовые предприниматели» разного рода. Теперь у уважаемых людей наступило прозрение: «ботаников» можно грабить, причем счет пойдет на сотни миллионов долларов." #nginx https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2019/12/14/83164-gosudarstvo-eto-my

"The role of the network today is to carry clients to services only. The job of the clients is not to talk to the other clients, but talk to services"

Geoff Huston "The Death of Transit and Beyond"

https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/106/

@vice Why would anyone use a public ledger for messaging?

@hansw@mastodon.social Wow, that's really stupid, didn't even realize Germany is blocking Project Gutenberg...

If you're looking for something to read.
Russell was a British philosopher and mathematician, and also a socialist. In 1920 he visited Soviet Russia as part of socialist delegation.. and after return he was one of the first Western intellectuals disillusioned about the Bolshevik Revolution, and the concept of revolution in general.
"The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism" by Bertrand Russell (1920), 100% free from
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17350
#communism #socialism #ussr #revolution

@dzajew @tindall Well, you kind of can tip a website directly and it's simple one click operation. This IMHO is the biggest advantage of BAT, because Patreon etc are too much hassle.

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/

An interesting case study from the drug industry giving an unique insight into how the research into new drugs is funded (with a bit of bias towards US pathologic healthcare funding). https://endpts.com/biopharma-has-abandoned-antibiotic-development-heres-why-we-did-too/

‘A typical racket, simple as that’ Nginx co-founder Maxim Konovalov explains Rambler's litigation against his company, which develops the world’s most popular web-server #nginx #russia

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/13/a-typical-racket-simple-as-that

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

@skobkin @rf Отжать наверное нет, на получить $$$ компенсацию почему бы нет?

Или очередной спектакл с серии "иностранная фирма захватила отечественное ПО" :)

@tsturm

Correct, but they're just buying a product packaged and sold by Kremlin itself https://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-vows-to-defend-christianity-worldwide.html

Russia is obviously very diverse ethnically and culturally, and some of the pictures from Russian towns could come as a shock to alt-right :) https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/12/russias-muslims-celebrate-kurban-bairam-a66814

"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/