kravietz 🦇 @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
My colleague boasting his broadband in Poland:
600/60 Mbps (down/up), cost 14 GBP
In UK I have ~25/5 Mbps for 40 GBP
And he's calling himself my friend! 🤦♂️
Starlink satellite Internet is soon to be available in Poland for ~430 GBP installation and then 80 GBP per month for 150 Mbps, which seems like a sensible alternative in UK.
Screw OpenReach...
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> Finland college is free
> If you get a PhD they give you an honorary sword
This is how you motivate people.
> If you get a PhD they give you an honorary sword
This is how you motivate people.
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China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool in 2014—and Used It for Years
https://www.wired.com/story/china-nsa-hacking-tool-epme-hijack/
A #cryptocurrency paper "How to issue a central bank digital currency" published by Swiss National Bank , interestingly proposes GNU Taler rather than blockchain-based ones
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i would advise anyone wishing to migrate to America from a developing country to consider other countries, perhaps one in Western Europe. while America may improve your standard of living, it's a very tough and competitive environment, you will receive minimal help from the government, healthcare costs you money, wages are poor for the working class even for the locals, and the politicians are more corrupt than most other developed countries.
if you migrate to the EU/EFTA/EEA area, you have more options. once you're established, you can easily move to another country if you don't like the one you're in at the moment. just find a job within 3 months of arriving there and you're good to go. you don't have to apply for a visa. within the Schengen area, you don't even need to display your passport to cross the borders.
if you migrate to the EU/EFTA/EEA area, you have more options. once you're established, you can easily move to another country if you don't like the one you're in at the moment. just find a job within 3 months of arriving there and you're good to go. you don't have to apply for a visa. within the Schengen area, you don't even need to display your passport to cross the borders.
It's bloody expensive but after reading a bit I can clearly see the value!
I'm not really against touch screen, it's just might be the retarded way it's implemented in Kindle Oasis that made me a bit biased towards it :) I do *a lot* of highlights and in Oasis it's just impossible.
Also UK is by far not the most attractive destination to live for medium income Russians - weather sucks, property prices are ridiculous and you are basically stuck on an island without Schengen visa, especially after Brexit. You will see many more Russians working and living in EU, like Germany or Spain, or Malta, Cyprus, and other places with nice climate. UK is attractive for Russian cronies and it has been unfortunately positioning itself as such for years.
Well, half of the Internet is using Nginx which is formally F5 project but originated and developed in Russia. World of Tanks is Belarus, War Thunder is Russia as well I think.
In general Russian engineering is world-class and the country could export much more than just raw materials.
The problem is that whatever company reaches certain level in Russia, parasites from countless security services come and basically take it over, turning it into shit.
Of course it's not black-and-white. Ukraine is technically at war with Russia but it still buys hydrocarbon and uranium - they just diversified their supplies to reduce Kremlin's leverage.
EU and UK made a number of strategic mistakes in the past by tolerating Russian money laundering and crime (in Spain, UK) or state-sponsored terrorism (in UK, Germany), which only encouraged Putin.
If you talk with people in Russia, they literally consider EU and UK to be "pussies" 🤷
Illegal immigration is a different story - those you see in Calais were really literally struggling for life, and neither Russia nor Belarus are even close. It's just what the article says - economic stagnation.
If you can emigrate legally, for example if you work in high-demand sector such as IT, people emigrate a lot. Lots of Russians working in EU, even in Poland, which has the advantage of being in Schengen but at the same pretty close geographically and culturally.
This is half of the picture - there's no "single Russia". The population is fundamentally split between supporters of progress, religious orthodoxists and quasi-criminal gangs on the top.
"Russia is entering a period of decline and political decay. The population is ageing, while the real income of its middle class is falling. Putin has failed to diversify the economy, and global demand for hydrocarbons is set to fall over the next decade."
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Yes, they patched it, but I still don't like #Keybase, also because it was (partially) bought by #Zoom. I use the decentralized solution @keyoxide for this and yes it is more complex but you only do this once and then you have it. Apart from that there should now be a #shell #script for it.
Are you making any highlights? This is driving me crazy in Oasis
They didn't - Perseverance uses plutonium thermoelectric generator, which is still good old fission
https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-nuclear-power-source-explained.html
What ebook reader would you recommend?
Must have:
* backlight
* EPUB, MOBI
* text highlighting
* buttons, not touch screen
I've been using Kindle Oasis but it sucks so incredibly that it's just frustrating to read anything on it... I was always using the old Kindles but they have no backlight and it's a huge advantage. New Kindles on the other hand come with the bloody touch screen which makes it impossible to highlight anything precisely. Plus I don't like Amazon :)
Inside The World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
"Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt is investing $200 million in Poland to create what it says will be Europe’s largest factory for energy storage systems. (...) the factory will produce an annual output of 5 GWh of modules and packs"
A pretty comprehensive introduction into what end-to-end encryption *actually* means in the context of instant messengers (mostly): what data specifically is encrypted where, and what popular misconceptions in this field are routinely used for marketing purposes.
Seems to be doing pretty well, and a lot of them in the UK!
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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