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.
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@sir I guess the body responds by increasing muscle mass up to some level (as used by body builders). Beyond some exposure it will however start deforming joints and backbone, which is e.g. seen in obesity.
@sir Most of the flight and space research is focused on very high G impact on human body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-G_training
BTW from the presentation I just posted - this explains the whole connection with pangolins and bats
I'm mostly infosec but worked a lot with BCP & DR* teams who asked me for help in DR planning.
We did plan for floods, blackouts, epidemics (that was H1N1 times) but the amount of human ingenuity and professionalism being put into Covid-19 containment at global level is absolutely awesome.
Let these people do their job and keep politics at bay. We're in good hands.
* BCP & DR = Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery
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Just noticed a spike in traffic to my Linux guide. Google has started sending visitors that search for things such as "switch from Mac to Linux". I'm hoping that it will "convert" some of them. Now if I could just rank above that Medium post too!
Shadow economy doesn't like publicity. Any publications about the link between TCM and Covid-19 is damaging for TCM simply because it increases pressure on the Chinese government to enforce its own regulations, ban on poaching etc.
Well, living in 80's communist Poland and visiting Russia a lot I can understand *that* argument :) On the other hand, if this TCM industry is dominated by party people, why would a state university undermine their business by publishing such news if it wasn't legitimate research?
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There is no evidence that TCM even work...the communist party did however promote a medicine that was majority owned by high ranking party members...that medicine was sold out over night and was quackery and witchcraft. There was quote afterwards, "if the party told people dog shit was the cure the entire worlds supply of dog shit would be dug up over night".
Every chinese hospital prescribes western meds coupled with chinese meds, most people just throw away the herbal stuff. Their insurance company's cover the cost of the TCM otherwise the industry would buckle...and industry that's heavily invested in by high ranking party members...good luck getting testing done on those "medicines"...
Now as for the meds that come from animals, they are mostly boner medicine...google it, I'm not joking
Please see the linked Nature article in my comment, based on the following original publication from South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou https://scau.edu.cn/2020/0207/c1300a219015/page.htm
TCM is obviously pseudo-science and usage of protected animals is barbaric.
Now, on one hand it's strongly supported by China government, who lobbied at WHO to consider it part of medicine. On the other hand, it tried to modify TCM canon to exclude animal ingredients and officially banned poaching. On yet another hand, the "illegal" markets are flourishing which means they are being protected by officials.
The origins of coronavirus seem to be a bit more complex because it seems like it originated from a rare contact of wild animals that rarely mix in natural conditions, but are frequently poached and sold on anti-sanitary markets for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today proposed a major step forward to further the FCC’s efforts to protect consumers against spoofed robocalls: new rules requiring implementation of caller ID authentication (...) reduce the effectiveness of illegal spoofing, allow law enforcement to identify bad actors more easily, and help phone companies identify calls with illegally spoofed caller ID information before those calls reach their subscribers."
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-March/106254.html
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i kinda wanna babble about this now. okay so RPN is Reverse Polish Notation. before explaining what it actually is i wanna tell y'all a bit about why i even give a shit. so, story time.
Large increases in #DNSSEC validating resolvers worldwide http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2020-02/validating.html
"I Worked Full Time in Crypto for Two Years and Didn’t Really Like What I Saw" https://medium.com/swlh/i-worked-full-time-in-crypto-for-two-years-and-didnt-really-like-what-i-saw-39382fa103a7
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Turns out avoiding Facebook is not just good for your privacy, but also leads to "… improvements in well-being, and in particular in self-reported happiness, life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety.”
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BREAKING: @CNIL is launching an investigation against @Criteo following our AdTech complaint! https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3395/cnil-launches-investigation-criteo-following-pis-complaint
This is a great news: the AdTech industry needs to be scrutinised for its massive data exploitation of people's personal data and GDPR needs to be enforced
@marek Yeah, around 60% houses are energy efficiency class D and below.
But the advice is quite counterproductive. Periodically switching off heating in your house makes even less sense because all accumulated heat will be then dissipated into the air and when you switch heating on again, it has to catch up and will use even more energy.
Same for switching off heating in unused rooms - these will just cool down adjacent rooms which you *want* warm, so again more energy used for heating.
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