kravietz π¦ @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
Just switched my #lorawan gateway to a proper 8-channel RAK2245 and it's working nice, but I'm quite surprised to see how primitive the RAK firmware is - it's basically Raspbian with rather awkwardly added Semtech packet forwarder! I guess it's FPGA that you're really paying for... Dragino LG01 gateway only supports single channel but has a proper web-based user interface :)
My experiences with IAST and RASP tools - continuation of previous writeup about application security tools
https://krvtz.net/posts/making-sense-of-the-sast-dast-iast-rasp-soup-2.html
That's a potential for a startup: sell social media engagement on an isolated instance of Mastodon ππ
It's not in the snippets, but we're not the targets. This is the kind of bullshit you put into investor portfolios π
More than certain this article is sponsored interview paid for from PR budget of their startup, or his dad, or both, as part of a planned promotional campaign for their new business. Which kind of works, if it's even discussed on Mastodon π
@guenther
I did, indeed! π
Certainly, "for something" π
If this monument was presented in a liberal art gallery, it would certainly trigger national protests for blasphemy...
"Statue of Pope JP2 carrying a boulder while crossing a red pond filled with carp outside the national museum in Warsaw β allegory for something. (Jan CieΕski)"
Source of the quote https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2014/10/12/what-would-milton-friedman-do-about-climate-change-tax-carbon/#5c166c8e6928
The very concept of economic "externality" mentioned by Cicala is fundamental to modern ecology, and base to modern environmental policies.
Ever heard about Milton Friedman, the top liberal economist enumerated in one row with Rand, Mises, Hayek?
Well this is him advocating for carbon tax in 1979.
The problem was not really with Friedman or Hayek, who applied liberal economics to social challenges in quite a pragmatic way (it was Rand and Mises who were indeed dogmatic), it's a problem with today's left and right who never read neither Friedman, nor Marx, and know both from summaries written by demagogues similar to themselves.
Polish coal miners' union leader BogusΕaw ZiΔtek in 2020: "I cannot imagine coal production to be reduced, we must guarantee employment until 2060 at least".
Also BogusΕaw ZiΔtek, in 2001: "all profits must be paid out to the workers" (rather than invested in modernizing mining infrastructure).
A side note: back in 2014 out of 15 state-owned coal mines in Poland only 3 (three) were profitable, the others are hopelessly outdated. 30% coal is imported... and, you know, decarbonization!
Well, we already do by being here on Mastodon!
On the other hand, 99% people still don't give a fsck about non-free services and if one day all Mastodon instances were shut doen due to their maintainers going bankrupt, everyone would happily move back to Twitter because it's "free" :)
As it comes to media, I don't like it either but there must be some reason why it went this way. They surely have to pay their bills and I don't know anyone who actually buys a physical newspaper.
Everything has moved to the Internet but the truth is that 99% of users don't give a fsck about any service today that isn't free, and if you even ask them to pay 1 EUR per month, they will immediately move to one that is free.
Well, obviously this kind of "free"... :)
I'm pretty sure however it's a business game on *both* sides, so at the end of the day they will get some kind of compromise.
Not that I'm pleased with it as I deleted my FB account 2 years ago (after 10 years of being there) but this is how it works.
That's precisely the problem, and media won't step against FB for a very simple reason: significant part of their income comes from social media. Today's media have been largely shaped by FB, with the pressure on clickbaiting, sharing, user engagement, AMP etc. Today's FB warning is directed largely to the EU media I'm afraid...
We had the same bullshit dramas from FB and Google with the Digital Copyright Directive, which they misleadingly then called "ACTA2". The directive has passed, you don't see either of them going anywhere obviously...
They are not going anywhere. This is just a message to everyone making money on FB "hey, pressure on EC to back off or you may lose your favourite marketing platform".
"Of those arrested 119 were based in the US, two in Canada, 42 in Germany, eight in the Netherlands, four in the UK, three in Austria and one in Sweden."
@Wetrix They're just trying to get anti-vaccine & flat Earth movements on the streets in defense π
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Great news for Europe if the regulators don't back down.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889pk3/facebook-threatens-to-pull-out-of-europe-if-it-doesnt-get-its-way
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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