kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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“NSA people traveled in true name, and sent far more people to meetings than CIA felt was advisable from a security standpoint,” the CIA history says. “One of the continuing irritants on the CIA side was this apparent lack of appreciation for traditional [agency] clandestine operational procedures.”
With Russians on trial in absentia for killing 298 in airliner shootdown, a look back at Russia’s #MH17 disinformation
California, EU, UK and Switzerland residents can request removal from #ClearView here https://www.clearview.ai/privacy/requests
Others are a tradeable commodity.
"Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand - written by an environmentalist who honestly talks about what modern environmentalism got right, and what it got completely wrong, and what is actually helping us to prevent the climate change.
"The Unthinkable" by Amanda Ripley. This is essentially an extremely useful and practical guide to help you see the actual risks in daily life rather than distract on inflated bullshit.
As I have just ordered "The Precipice", I will this as opportunity to share a few other books that I believe are critical to forming a rational picture of the modern world. So...
"Factfulness" by Hans Rosling
Women should carefully consider the privacy and security tradeoffs before deciding to use any fertility and pregnancy tracking applications.
The Precipice explores the science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies we can take today to safeguard humanity’s future.
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#TIL about #DisasterRadio,
"a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun", organised as "a collaborative project between #SudoMesh and Secure #Scuttlebutt, with additional support from the #InternetSociety and Institute For the Future"
https://disaster.radio/learn/
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London, rightwing terrorism, cops nicking cops
A young police officer (age 21) in #london has been arrested by Metpol anti terrorism unit on suspicion of being a member of a right wing terrorist group (so he has been nicked by his own constabulary!)
Makes you wonder how many others there are (especially those officers who are better at hiding their views)
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@Ajz
i prefer #XMPP with well administrated servers using #OMEMO encryption.
* compared to matrix, it has less resource limits.
* has client diversity. for instance, there exist clients for the terminal and native GUI clients
* compared to matrix, the end-to-end crypto is better. for instance, on matrix, currently only riot support end-to-end crypto. fractal for instance does not.
* XMPP has better decentralization. matrix for instance has one huge server: matrix.org and many small ones.
* XMPP has diverse developer culture, for instance XMPP hackathons and multiple XMPP servers who both work well.
* it is more stable compared to signal. Signal is very difficult to use without a smartphone and the migration from one desktop client to another desktop client is difficult when you don't have access to your smartphone. in XMPP i can just create a new OMEMO key for the new device and everything is fine. (Both devices can be used simultaneously)
#matrix #decentral #dezentral #signal
i prefer #XMPP with well administrated servers using #OMEMO encryption.
* compared to matrix, it has less resource limits.
* has client diversity. for instance, there exist clients for the terminal and native GUI clients
* compared to matrix, the end-to-end crypto is better. for instance, on matrix, currently only riot support end-to-end crypto. fractal for instance does not.
* XMPP has better decentralization. matrix for instance has one huge server: matrix.org and many small ones.
* XMPP has diverse developer culture, for instance XMPP hackathons and multiple XMPP servers who both work well.
* it is more stable compared to signal. Signal is very difficult to use without a smartphone and the migration from one desktop client to another desktop client is difficult when you don't have access to your smartphone. in XMPP i can just create a new OMEMO key for the new device and everything is fine. (Both devices can be used simultaneously)
#matrix #decentral #dezentral #signal
I believe DARPA-style funding would be way more effective in this case - find a real problems and fund grants for companies and universities to solve them while precisely accounting their progress and outcome based on clearly defined criteria.
They will not only acquire the necessary capital but also business acumen, which they can then further use for 3rd party projects.
But if your success criteria are set like "increase overall happiness of society" it's never going to work...
@strypey Some people argued the money still "went to the people" but it's not sustainable.
@strypey Unfortunately, while many universities and companies used these funds to do just that - expand their existing research and business acumen - it also attracted a whole new class of parasitic entepreneurs, for whom it was purely a way to make a quick buck.
We had an avalanche of "social portal for cats" and similar "innovations" that were merely engineered to satisfy formal requirements, get funding and then maintain for only as long as required by the contract.
Absolutely, it was a brilliant and innovative idea (image search in 2000's?) but it was killed by politics, vague objectives and funding for the sake of funding, rather than achieving some objective.
I've been living in Poland back then, who was target of huge EU funding for innovation. This is a great thing in a country where lack of capital is frequently an very basic show stopper for any innovative idea to be turned into a business.
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@kravietz this is a general problem with IT procurement in governments around the world. See:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103758251428633971
@blacklight447 This is your/our social bubble I'm afraid. If you go a bit further east or south from NL you'll find societies where a violence between two unrelated people on the street is one thing, and violence between people in the same household is completely different thing, even though it's the same violence @Gina
It took these retards in European capitals 5 years and Turkey opening borders to even consider something that was obvious from the very beginning and desperately requested by the people on the ground... 🤦♂️
"No fly-zone over Idlib necessary first step to end escalation of violence"
"good delivery is about removing uncertainty through experimentation" https://medium.com/@jereeve/a-catalogue-of-things-that-are-stopping-change-605f8d9acda6
- OpenPGP
- 6F7B6BB9A9B632555E1A03C132AF1F39C4EE03F2
- Website
- https://krvtz.net
- Matrix
- @kravietz:krvtz.net
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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