kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Closure of zero-emission #nuclear power plants is good business for environmental apparently:

"The state of New York, together with the environmental group Riverkeeper, which had waged a legal battle to shut down the plant (...) that the deal created a $15 million fund for community and environmental projects and that Riverkeeper believes it is due half of that"

https://eu.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2020/05/01/indian-point-towns-stake-claim-fund-buchanan-cortlandt-hendrick-hudson/3057517001/

I would say your question is like liberalism 101...

@Br0m3x @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @strypey

@thor

In most cases it was purely economic: in Poland by the end of 80's people earned like $20 per month so even an idea of paying $20 for some shareware was quite crazy, not to mention $200 for Windows etc. So everything we used was pirated.

Today some of my friends in in Russia (important: outside of Moscow) who earn like $300 per month and live with parents because they can't afford renting a flat ($200 minimum). As you can imagine, PhotoShop Pro isn't high on their purchasing list ;)

@thor

That's a very good question, actually, with many non-obvious answers.

Eastern Europe and Asia is traditionally much more collectivist that the West. The concept of intellectual property is not as hard as physical property: "if I copy your picture from the Internet you still have it, don't you?" is the common argument.

@feld

To be honest, I don't know who leaves such daemons accessible to the whole world.

(reality then comes and says "yes, you don't know")

On the other hand, open-source projects such as LineageOS or Matrix (remember their Jenkins?) are the least guilty of all. They just don't have resources - neither money nor people - to take care of everything. That's why I routinely approach open-source projects I use and offer them infosec support for free or at very low cost.

@thor

To be honest, graphic designers in Russia earn shit money so they are definitely cutting corners where possible. On the other hand these campaigns are usually financed from federal or regional budget so they could definitely can afford to pay for stock but... who cares?

@thor

"Proper" costs $$$ and who will even complain? 😉

Russian 9 may posters have a long history of blunders caused by graphic designers who are used to just copy & paste whatever comes first in search engine. They have already celebrated Americans from Okinawa, Wehrmacht and now it's time for a Finnish solder (Finland was attacked by USSR in 1939 but was able to push back).

Tim Bray: "May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at #Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19"

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon

@irl

> by using throwaway addresses for each connection

This is technically possible. I've seen some services using this technique to bypass Google search query limits by switching their egress IPv6 address every 5 minutes or so. Of course this works only as long as Google doesn't enforce limits per subnet but switching is easy. Choosing a new IPv6 address *per connection* is also technically possible with /etc/gai.conf, the client software would just need to actually do it.

@irl

Regarding stable IPv6 addresses - they are pain to configure as you have to use DHCPv6 and DHCP simply makes little sense with SLAAC. I've spent significant amount of time configuring DHCPv6 only to be able to track traffic in my LAN as all my personal and kids devices had different IPv6 addr each time :)

At the end of the day, I'm just tracking their MAC addresses as these are stable and configured everything else to use privacy extensions.

@irl

Ok, this makes perfect sense - looks like privacy extensions offer privacy protection equivalent to an ISP-scale NAT.

@irl

Regarding performance - well, that's why I got myself a native IPv6. In any case I don't think it's a big selling point today because currently observed IPv6 latency might be due to lower usage and saturation - nice, but still side effect.

@irl

My IPv6 address today is

2a02:390:79ef:0:bc7c:b971:4e32:1c20

Most detailed information you will get from WHOIS is 2a02:390:7000::/36 registered to my ISP somewhere in UK. And tomorrow the IP will be different.

@skobkin

Я тоже не ДБА, но пришлось когда база WebCookies.org превышила несколько милярдов рекордов :) Дело в том что современные базы делают очень много чего дополниьтельно кроме "просто просканируй таблицу". Очень много редундантной информации именно для ускорения поисков.

@skobkin

Индексы возможно? Индексы же создаются уже после импорта. Кстати REINDEX тоже можно попробовать