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There's a lot of bullshit in circulation about EU "funding opposition in " - in reality, EU has allocated over €170 since 2014 to various projects in Belarus, including support to health sector, farming, municipalities - and yes, also victims of political repressions and independent media there.

ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enl

@kawaiipunk

I just had a bit of a discussion on Twitter triggered by some alt-right idiots claiming "BLM is Marxist", because a couple of idiots from BLM indeed declared "we are trained Marxists" and then had some BLM sympathizers coming to the rescue "what do you have against Marxist BLM".

I explained that unless BLM wants a violent revolution, Black dictatorship and liquidation Whites as a class, then calling BLM "Marxist" is utter nonsense.

Political semantics today is depressing...

В протоколе сказано, что активистка «организовала, приняла участие и провела публичное мероприятие в форме одиночного пикетирования».

meduza.io/news/2020/09/22/v-ba

Авторы наркоблогов, несмотря на жесткие ограничения Роскомнадзора и негативное отношение общества к людям с зависимостью, открыто рассказывают о своей жизни и опыте употребления. А еще рассуждают, как можно улучшить наркополитику в России

meduza.io/feature/2020/09/22/k

@ybaumy

No problem, I understand German (a bit). There are obviously attempts to push backdoored technology everywhere, but in Russia they actually become law.

And what is even more ridiculous is that they have just revoked the ban on Telegram after it had not worked for two years.

I suspect this is mostly driven by some Russian vendors of interception equipment who just want to sell some appliances to telcos...

An idea for a patent: "A Method and Apparatus of Dismissing Any Security Risk by Scheduling a Strategic Migration at Unspecified Point in Future" 🤦‍♂️

@ybaumy

1) Do you know what "enterprise" means?

2) Is it a law in any EU country?

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It needs to be remembered that many of the silly Russian laws against technology never worked (e.g. Telegram ban) but they certainly caused some disruption, especially at telcos. Now they plan to ban no less than... TLSv1.3 (because ESNI) and DoH/DoT.

zdnet.com/article/russia-wants

@mhamzahkhan

Wait for when you can take your then 5 years old to the gym 😃

Brian Deere's book "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines" is full of surprises: it explains pseudoscientific and litigating origins not only of the anti-vaccination movement but also gluten free diet and other trends.

Safing (safing.io) is developing Portmaster, a FOSS kernel-level firewall application for Windows & Linux with various privacy features; as well as SPN, a multi-hop privacy network currently in closed beta.

Safing has been a long term sponsor of the PrivacyTools project on OpenCollective :)

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Europe CAN play a leading role here, if we’re pro-active and build on the entrepreneurship we have! Instead of falling back to the big, US firms, let’s look at local business and innovation as a driver of growth, shares @fkarlitschek for @univention!
univention.com/blog-en/2020/08

This year's IgNobel Prize has this very apt prize for #COVID19 . It's awarded to the leaders of the US, UK, India, etc. "for using the COVID-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can."

arstechnica.com/science/2020/0

#IgNobel #Science #Humour

#OpenStreetMap people have a whole PeerTube instance of their own, just filled to the brim with OSM talks!

peertube.openstreetmap.fr/

A lot of French, like you might guess from the URL, but a fair amount of English talks too.
in English:

In Austria, a hydrogen train is set to travel on challenging alpine routes.
Anmar FrangoulRail passengers in Austria are set to take part in a trial of a hydrogen fuel cell train, as the rollout of technology that could change the way public transport systems operate continues at a steady pace.


@Bigcat@phreedom.tk:

Австрийские федеральные железные дороги (ÖBB) приступили к 10-недельным испытаниям двухвагонного поезда Coradia iLint на водородных топливных элементах.
#поезд #испытания
www.cnbc.com/2020/09/14/in-aus…


#trains #technologies #GreenEnergy #ecology

Scammers pretending to be HMRC, UK 

@GwenfarsGarden

Did you actually talk to them? What was the story if yes?

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