kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@glc

Hi Graeme, welcome to Mastodon! We actually have a lot of people interested in these topics!

If you plan traveling across or into EU this is a very useful resource

https://reopen.europa.eu/

@kmic

Ja jestem jak najbardziej za, tylko tu wchodzą prawnicy i strzelają focha, że to narusza prawa kogoś do tego lub tamtego. Ja jestem w stanie wyobrazić sobie coś takiego, że wyborca sam wybiera "łatwy system" albo "nowy system" ale wszystko znowu się rozbija o prawników konstytucyjnych, którzy będą bić pianę, że to nie są wybory "równe i powszechne" i tak ad mortem defaecatam.

@kmic

Taki system został zaproponowany przez zespół prof. Kutyłowskiego w 2009 roku - on gwarantował zarówno tajność jak i weryfikowalność głosowania co jest nietrywialne, ale możliwe przy poprawnie zaprojektowanym systemie kryptograficznym. Wszystko jak zwykle rozbija się o samych wyborców, którzy statystycznie rzecz biorąc nie potrafią nawet zrozumieć prostych instrukcji w stylu "jeden krzyżyk na stronie".

https://ipsec.pl/scratch-click-and-vote-e-voting-po-polsku.html

https://ipsec.pl/pierwsze-weryfikowalne-e-wybory-zastosowane-w-praktyce.html

Just found it: systemd comes with a cool replacement for `chroot(1)` (on Ubuntu it's a separate package `systemd-container`) which not only virtualizes the filesystem root but actually wraps the process in a lightweight container.

@amici

If you're still wondering after reading it then I definitely cannot help you by paraphrasing it 🤷‍♂️

@amici

A 600 MW nuclear plant occupies maybe 0.5 km² and can run for 80 years at the same power 95% oftime.

A 500 MW solar plant occupies 2500 ha and will run for maybe 20 years with power output degrading over time, and only operating maybe 20% at full power.

Gas is a no-go anyway but Greens somehow prefer it.

@RobinHood

After the 1st paragraph I was sure he'd say "man who's using checks in 2020" 😁

@dump_stack @rysiek

This "give out the keys" might also apply to a widespread law enforcement practice of planting tailored client apps through Google Play Store for targeted clients. If E2EE is implemented in the client app then the client app can just as well leak the keys through a side channel.

@rysiek @dump_stack

Precisely that. This could be a simply PR bullshit like Zoom's "server-side E2EE" but still...

@dump_stack

Roscomnadzor tried to block it including carpet bombing of whole AWS subnets and killing tons of other websites on the way, which then they removed, added another ones etc. And they tried quite desperately for at least a year. Which is exactly the case for "“incompetent Russian gov tried, failed and then gived up".

@dump_stack

And yes I never believed the story of "Telegram as a rebel against FSB". It's quite likely that Telegram from the very beginning was covertly cooperating with *some* special service on targeted delivery of payloads to specific users. The problem might be that there's not one "service" in Russia but at least three of them so the conflict might have arisen on the ground that Telegram denied to cooperate with all of them even on low-value targets like people reposting ПТН ПНХ etc.

@dump_stack

I have never used Telegram simply because it's closed source IM with unclear funding. I have an account to read some Telegram-only groups but use it through a bot bridging to Matrix specifically to avoid having Telegram client on my phone.

Over the course of two years you could however see plenty of journalists, public administration official and politicians openly using Telegram and ignoring the "ban", for example:

https://news.rambler.ru/internet/43254760-rossiyskie-vlasti-porekomendovali-polzovatsya-telegram/

Roscomnadzor gives up and unblocks Telegram.

The funny thing is that literally everyone in Russia, including state media journalists, politicians and ministers continued to use Telegram after it was "blocked" two years ago 😂

https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/06/18/russia-unblocks-telegram