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kravietz 🦇  

@strypey

I'm not singling out China. Superstitions are stupid everywhere and I'm criticising "traditional medicine" everywhere, including my home country of Poland(*), Germany(**) or India(***), because it does more harm than good.

* some local shaman in PL recently starved a kid to death as part of "therapy"
** DE loves homeopathy and other "natural therapies", and are often abandoning cancer therapy and die
*** many ayurvedic drugs are simply poisonous and harmful to patients

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kravietz 🦇  

It's good to be a dictator in a starving country:

"North Korea, one of the world’s poorest countries, imported 138 horses at a cost of $584,302 between 2010 and 2019"

(this is about purebred sport horses, not horses for work or meat)

themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/19/

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Polish mining union wanted to block Russian coal imports into Poland but messed up tracks and blocked Polish coal exports to Ukraine instead. Plus, they're like 5 years late... wnp.pl/finanse/spolka-pkp-lhs-

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silverwizard  
Holy shit!

♲ @mcmillen@twitter.com:

"Kickstarter workers are now the first white collar workers at a major tech company to successfully unionize in the United States, sending a message to other tech workers."
Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election

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supernova :fdroid: :tor: /e/  

@kravietz This is why we need open source Linux phones.

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Doc Edward Morbius ❌​  

Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

...Real world advertising is not about informing, it's about convincing. Over time, it became increasingly manipulative and dishonest. It also became more effective. In the process, it grew to consume a significant amount of resources of every company on the planet. It infected every communication medium in existence, both digital and analog. ...

-- @temporal

jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-

#advertising #AdvertisingIsCancer

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Xeon²  
stolen from @skye
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🌈 Nick Sellen 🌻  

🚗 I'm involved in organising a hackweek in April for trustroots.org - kind of an open source and free alternative to couchsurfing etc, that came out of the hitchwiki project (so lots of hitchhikers on it...).

👭 it kind of represents a bit of a reboot of the project, to get more active team again. and we're keen to make it more community-driven...

❓ feel free to ask me questions!

💻 you can register your interest here --> trustroots-hackathon.survey.fm

👍 pls boost!

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DoudouOSM  

#LoRaWAN distance world record broken. Data transmission over 766 km distance using just 25mW transmission power. thethingsnetwork.org/article/l #IoT

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" Is the Last Best Place on the Internet. People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right."

wired.com/story/wikipedia-onli

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muesli  

If you're traveling to a different country that's not covered by your mobile data plan, check out the fantastic "Prepaid Data SIM Wiki". It covers pay-as-you-go options for a wide range of countries and gets constantly updated:

prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.c

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kravietz 🦇  

This is precisely why open-source Android ROMs such as e.foundation and lineageos.org are so important for the health of the ecosystem. privacyinternational.org/news-

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@brombek This fear only applies to Europe and USA. China now plans 70 (!) new reactors with total power of 70 GW. Europe is a fraction of world's CO2 emissions so the fears don't really matter much. USA is a bigger problem indeed...

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@strypey Were these animal-based remedies invented yesterday? I don't think so, most likely they are part of the overall codex of TCM so you could ask why be so selective, if you're believing in it at all? If these ingredients became illegal only recently, then the TCM makers who still use them are kind of right, at least within the logic of their belief system.

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@strypey That's precisely what I mean. There's the whole supply chain, including poachers, contrabandists, "pharmacists" etc.

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Drew DeVault  

A stated design goal of builds.sr.ht is to never make you push weird commits just for the sake of the CI. That means using `git push -o skip-ci` instead of putting `[skip ci]` in your commit message, or letting you paste build manifests into the website to test them instead of pushing a bunch of test commits to see if your CI config works.

(Repeating comment from a thread with a locked participant)

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@sheogorath BTW IdentitiesOnly also prevents locking yourself out if 1) your server is properly hardened, 2) you have many SSH private - in which case SSH will try them all sequentially :)

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Say no to copyright trolls! latimes.com/business/hiltzik/l

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When a "security audit" contains the full list of 11 command-line tools that are run... and that's makes the whole audit... certificate.quantstamp.com/ful Well, at least it's deterministic*

* if you use the same versions...

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@hannesm

getrandom(2 should be more portable on Linux and is non-blocking, unlike getentropy(3).

I think the ENOSYS scenario is always possible if you run it on a system too old to even have getrandom(2).

I faced exactly the same challenge in one project that is expected to run on weirdest of unices (old Linux, BSD, Solaris etc) and ended up with rather ugly sequence of fallbacks from getrandom -> OpenSSL -> urandom -> random()

github.com/kravietz/pam_tacplu

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