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#OtD 21 Jan 1950 George Orwell, celebrated British author and socialist who fought against the fascists in the Spanish civil war, died. You can read his account of his experiences in Spain here: libcom.org/library/homage-to-c

🇬🇧 In Russia metadata can easily be bought and used to spy on people. bellingcat.com/resources/2020/

👁️ What if governments, companies or stalkers were tracking you?

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Portal @AIbicla@twitter.com oprócz problemów z bezpieczeństwem, dostępem do bazy danych użytkowników i haseł, ma też politykę prywatności, która ma się nijak do tego co się dzieje na stronie. Ciasteczka i skrypty śledzące, dane wysyłane do Gemius i Google albicla.com

#Albicla

The best fruit teas I've had so far — I just brought them from Poland but should be available on the Internet. Made of actual fruits, like 40% raspberry or 30% pear (plus all the usual filler like hibiscus and apple).

@tk Why now, I once ran a website on NetBSD running on an MicroVAX server that looked, contrary to its name, like a large fridge :)

hentai, rupol, russian court, the funniest shit, i cant believe this is a cw either 

im fucking losing it the russian court is watching lesbian hentai on an anime piracy site and then complaining that this doesnt have an age restriction

RT @TheRegister@twitter.com

Slack has entered the Matrix: Element builds a bridge to realm of encrypted, decentralised comms reg.cx/3Yhv

🐦🔗: twitter.com/TheRegister/status

please someone tell me a mastodon client that i can use to replace web mastodon, so it will be a bit faster than (see previous toot), it needs to work on ubuntu 20.04 lts

@vfrmedia @danie10

Yeah, that would account for a vandalism or antisocial behaviour. Polish police was for a period of time bumping their statistics simply by watching on CCTV who's leaving a pub and even touching their bicycle. Of course, this wouldn't happen without first legislators making it a law (which was then revoked).

@vfrmedia @danie10

On my first day after I moved to UK in 2013 the company who hired me did me a favour by renting me a car from the airport to a hotel in central Reading. The highway was fine (remember, driving on the other side for the 1st time), but then the center of Reading is rather terrible system of bus lanes, one-way streets and narrow surprise turns, so I must have triggered all these alerts a dozen of times - that was a nightmare... 😂

@vfrmedia @danie10

On the other hand in Poland we had an overzealous regulation a few years ago where people were getting actual prison sentences for drunk bicycle riding (!) and there were cases where they would be actually arrested while walking (!) the bicycle home under influence.

@danie10 @bhtooefr @vfrmedia

In Russia you can call SPAS (car recovery service) that will come with a spare driver who takes you and your car home safely :)

@vfrmedia @danie10

But then in the UK the enforcement is rather lenient - what I've been seeing in the pubs before lockdown, plenty of people drive after a few pints and they never get caught. You need to actually cause a collision or drive in totally suspicious way to get tested.

Which in my opinion is a reasonable attitude as in Eastern Europe "surprise checks" are common, yet don't really stop drunk drivers while mostly driving bribery.

@Wetrix Might be, DDOS-GUARD might be just front like Cloudflare

@dcid

I guess nobody else in the West wanted them. For a Russian vendor it's a market opportunity and they're not losing anything — they can't be boycotted in the West as they have no clients there, and neither Russian media nor gov are going to cause them any trouble as they are generally supportive towards US alt-right.

@freemo

I must admit this compulsory drug testing is one of these things that make people from Europe look at the US like some "Futurama" dystopia... 😉

@koherecoWatchdog @2ck

look, comrade granddaughter
you asked what is fucking nothing

#rusmeme

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