kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@dump_stack

But the root cause is a complete disrespect to science among the public *and* many country leaders. People not only have no clue about how science works and understanding of statistics is even more tragic, they just don't understand the concept of "likelihood" or "near miss" which has grave consequences each time a risk *does* materialize.

This applies equally to COVID-19 just as to GMO or nuclear energy unfortunately.

@dump_stack

This was precisely the case of SARS - it never really got hold outside of Asia so everyone just ignored it and many public personas ridiculed any preventive measures taken by their governments.

(https://twitter.com/ianbremmer)

@rysiek

Some smart TV run proprietary OS, some run Android. But even with the latter it's nothing different than vendor-supplied #android in smart phones - packed with spyware and proprietary apps.

While reflashing smartphones is well engineered, I don't think this is the same case now with smart TV.

So probably best get a "dumb" TV and just run OpenELec on a plug-in stick like the one mentioned by @tbr

@rysiek @tbr

For the OS part you'll need to get Android or Linux I'm afraid, Kodi is just an X application that is intended to run in kiosk mode

@rysiek Kodi does just that

This comment on BGP and RPKI from AAISP is essentially "why not deploy routing security".

https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/bgp-and-rpki/

Sorry but we've seen that attitude back in 2000's with security vulnerabilities - which was generally ignored by vendors - and only full disclosure changed that. This "good enough" attitude of large players was always what allowed abuse.

According to current draft Polish presidential elections in May exclude thousands of 🇵🇱 citizens in UK, USA, Italy, Canada, Spain.

Govt rejected any proposals to postpone elections and pushes postal vote for everyone... a month before the elections.

I was never a fan of the current national-conservative government but they're now heading straight for banana republic...

"The change that rendered ScreenOS encryption breakable did nothing but replace a few embedded constants in Juniper's pseudorandom number generator. (...) Thus, it is critical that the discrete logarithm of Q remain unknown. The changes to the ScreenOS code replaced Juniper's chosen Q with one selected by the attacker."

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232227-where-did-i-leave-my-keys/fulltext

@guenther

The topic of "Google and QR codes" sets me off as I was struggling with customers who distributed their TOTP secret keys (!!!) using google.com/chart

Of course, they followed advices in this thread:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34520928/how-to-generate-a-qr-code-for-google-authenticator-that-correctly-shows-issuer-d/56737468

@djsumdog

What do you mean by this "backporting"?

Regarding time-series and average, this is clearly explained on the graph and I think it's a fair comparison.

As @freemo immediately noticed, this was most likely done to respond to comments "oh but just a seasonal flu"

Yeah, this requires no comments at all :(

"Baudet described Kornilov as "a Russian who works for [Russian president Vladimir] Putin" and a "very influential figure"."

https://euobserver.com/foreign/148099