kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@dump_stack "1984" oh irony 😀

Problem long time solved by RPKI and other BGP security controls but why bother if "all works"?

https://observatory.manrs.org/#/overview

Russia's state-owned telco has hijacked internet traffic for 200+ CDNs and cloud providers this week. Twice.

- First on Wednesday, then again today
- High-profile victims Google, Amazon, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Dig Ocean, Joyent, Linode

https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-telco-hijacks-internet-traffic-for-google-aws-cloudflare-and-others/

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@thor

If you really want to learn about how #eu operates from an insider this book is probably the best I've read for a long time:

Robert Menasse "Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits: Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight for", 2016, ISBN 9780857423627

https://www.alibris.co.uk/Enraged-Citizens-European-Peace-and-Democratic-Deficits-Or-Why-the-Democracy-Given-to-Us-Must-Become-One-We-Fight-for-Robert-Menasse/book/33351106

Also on Amazon but not linking to the intentionally :)

@thor

National government are much more entangled in various long-established interest groups, less objective and professional, and more costly than the EU.

Looking at UK and Poland (which I know in depth) majority of the improvements to welfare and economy that happened over the last 30 years was due to EU.

National govs however tend to take all the glory for themselves, and blame EU for their own failures.

@thor

Correct, but this is how EU was created *by the very nation states* that are currently its members. EU on its own cannot change it unless member states come up with such initiative.

To be honest, having worked with public sector and lawmakers both on national level and EU level I'd love to see much more EU integration.

@thor

Because you don't really need a war with mountains of dead bodies to have a successful country.

The whole point of EU was to get rid of national tribalism rather than reinforce it by some random "us vs them" mythology.

As someone who migrated from one country that was screwed up for centuries due to primitive nationalism to another country that just screwed up for the same reason, I can really appreciate the peaceful cooperation at the EU level without all that "excitement".

@thor

I don't think threat of invading one's territory in order to enforce someone's laws would be very welcome in 2020 Europe. The fact that you're reaching back to 60's US for an example says a lot already about this idea ;)

@thor

There's a lot of myths around EU legislation* but 90% of the EU legislation is implemented promptly simply because they are simply useful - like standardisation of marking or even VAT invoices.

And there's a whole range of directives that *are* being delayed due to various national-level interests - for example air quality directives were delayed by Polish gov *against* the will of most citizens simply to please coal mining industry.

* some are documented here https://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/media/euromyths.html

@thor

It's not true. If your country has not implemented laws stipulated by a directive, you can use a directive directly and obtain desired legal result in national court. They absolutely do apply directly.

But yes, it is weaker union because many areas of legislation are outside of EU competences.

But in terms of COVID-19 it's all working well. EU countries are exchanging medical equipment on much larger scale than much boasted Chinese or Russian help.

@lucasdondo@fosstodon.org

Nothing? I've been off any Google services for a year or so and... it just works. Using Qwant/DDG for search, OSM for general maps, Nextcloud for data sync and photo, Cryptpad for online document editing.

Russian self-isolation art 😂 👍

@phessler The current version is much less entertaining 😕

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Antarctic_Expedition

Czech nudists reprimanded by police for not wearing face-masks

https://kafkadesk.org/2020/04/05/czech-nudists-reprimanded-by-police-for-not-wearing-face-masks/

Fox News innovation in the area of visual data presentation: the Y axis goes 30,60,90,100... Dr David Rober Grimes successfully matched it against an 8th-order polynomial on Twitter 😂 but I don't think they actually were so sophisticated, most likely they simply told their Photoshop person "just make it flat"

"Health care insurers expected to raise premiums by as much as 40% to recoup coronavirus losses"

Apparently, Adam Smith's fundamental works never made it to America!

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/05/health-care-insurers-expected-to-raise-premiums-by-as-much-as-40-to-recoup-coronavirus-losses/

Screenshot from: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#chap36

#U2F authenticators are great but they have one usability problem: they are always in the other drawer or backpack or jacket or whatnot, while your phone with Aegis or other TOTP generator is always at hand...