kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

How Patent Abuse Could Hurt the Fight Against the Pandemic

https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/patent-abuse-government-research-coronavirus.html

NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgwzw/nso-group-employee-abused-pegasus-target-love-interest

Fun science story: Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations

https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/

In English

"Key MH17 Figure Identified As Senior FSB Official: Colonel General Andrey Burlaka"

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04/28/burlaka/

Wow

"Переходит все границы. Ключевым фигурантом дела о сбитом «Боинге» оказался замглавы Погранслужбы ФСБ генерал Бурлака"

https://theins.ru/politika/216447

This! :)))

"Small and medium companies will enjoy delayed penalty payments from 60 to 180 days as a support measure during pandemics"

There's no other financial support program for companies or citizens in Russia.

So many positive emotions in comments... ;)

https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5ea69c5f9a79477559fde1f5

@hrisskar Too lazy to enable and open an US endpoint specifically for one silly article

ReOpen NC leader says she tested positive for COVID-19

https://web.archive.org/web/20200427220221/https://www.cbs17.com/community/health/coronavirus/reopen-nc-leader-says-she-tested-positive-for-covid-19/

(via archive.org because CBS blocks EU access)

@alexander @esureL

Fortunately this can be easily fixed with a bit of scotch tape over the vent :)

@alexander @esureL

Fair point - but that was the only thing I was able to get when the whole thing started!

@esureL

I never used masks before - I started around beginning of March. I just have a cheap N95 with breathing vent. I just keeep it in a pocket at all times and put it on when going into populated places like shops. As I just have one and effectively use it for maybe 10 minutes every 3 days I don't replace it or wash it.

A Northern Ballet version of ‘1984’ is streaming for free until May 3 (under no conditions re-post it on peertube ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC-A4kvqLvk

@se7en

I'm really sorry for you having to read this 😂

Interesting analysis on how #COVID19 will impact future economics:

"And one of the key thrusts of my analysis was that crises are necessary forcing function events which allow for key emergent trends evident BEFORE the crisis to become the dominant forces in the next phase of history."

https://defense.info/featured-story/2020/04/post-covid-19-re-sets-in-the-way-ahead/

What if the current 5G paranoia is simply the well-known software engineering N-1 principle that spread to general public?

@dump_stack

I was just thinking about it and the only situation when this cookie could indeed work would be if their auth is based on client-stored JWT. But this is clearly not the case with Coursera as they have pretty extensive user profiles etc.

Maybe they have some kind of internal identity management solution that is separate from the main web app which is managed separately which is the reason for at least temporary retention even if you delete account.

In any case, it's messy :)