kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@epic @lain @mlg @cjd @mithrandir

When people speak about "getting X to Africa" they usually mean selling technology or intellectual property for fat licensing fees 😂

That's one paradox of the way people in the West are talking about "investing in energy-efficient technologies" (be it nuclear, renewables or modern windows) - investing always implies financial return on investment at the cost of less advantageous countries.

@lain @epic @mlg @cjd @mithrandir

Oh yes, absolutely. In the Soviet times we recycled everything much more efficiently than today, and devices were always fixed rather than replaced (shortages). In Cuba you can see 60's cars still being used today and generally lots of creative re-use and recycling of stuff. But I certainly wouldn't like to live in Cuba or back in Soviet times specifically because you had to spend more time fucking around with broken stuff than doing anything else 😂

@mlg @cjd @epic @lain @mithrandir

Stewart Brand in his "Whole Earth discipline" (2011) praises favelas and other "slums" for being an example of organic growth of towns with extremely high space, energy and material efficiency.

@mlg @epic @lain @cjd @mithrandir

None as of now, a typical case:

> Czech Republic still has deposits of uranium ore but mining is not planned in the near future due to low price of Uranium.

Ukraine does produce uranium but it's not EU.

@kmic

To jest dopiero ciekawostka (z dzisiaj):

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/common-cold-could-help-suppress-the-covid-19-virus-the-new-findings-explained/ar-BB1eRupm

@koherecoWatchdog @cjd

That's part of the knowledge gap, and the tribal fixation which is especially acute in the US, is making this even worse.

Second case study when a customer has a policy of just installing security updates on #linux and it screws up things eventually.

clamav-freshclam was updated last year to support https URLs and fix a few other bugs exposed when using private mirrors.

It's *not* a security update, so it's not installed, so the whole mirroring process is broken.

Earlier I had the same with GeoIP libraries, which aren't "security" update either but they impact security significantly.

@copyme

In terms of PM it looks just like my home town of Krakow during heating season 😂

@cjd

You touched a very valid problem here, specifically the growing knowledge gap in society.

It's also true that large part of scientific community is alienated, but I guess they are just as much victims of the divide as those on the other end of the spectrum.

I believe there's no way to close such gaps other than the society actively closing it by education targeted not only at children (as we do today) but also adults.

"Science" 😂

@mhamzahkhan

That's *very* long. Enable query request *and* response log and you can see straight away which ones take time to resolve (even visually), then you can get exact metrics using timestamps. Maybe a problem with DNSSEC resolution? It's requires way more requests than regular resolution, and then if your system clock is off the signatures will fail. Also make the cache as large as possible.

Nerdy but 😂 😂 😂 😂

@pr1ba I was more shocked they list "Memorial" as the "enemy of the state", on par with some McArthur Foundation and Amnesty International - which is silly, but they are at least "foreign". But Memorial is 100% Russian and had always been.

@pr1ba Well, a police department is the armed arm of the government after all :)

@pr1ba These blue-black ones? I was wondering what they are...

In Poland, a writer Jakub Żulczyk is accused of insulting the President by calling him a "retard" on Facebook.

Daniel Tiles recalls a classic Polish illustration by Andrzej Mleczko (I think well from 80's):

"We're ruled by idiots" the man writes on the wall.

"Should we arrest him for insulting the authorities or for revealing state secrets", says the officer.