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
So as you can see the fact that there's a strong progressive part of society in Russia doesn't mean that there is no strong anti-progressive and pro-authoritarian fraction, which there clearly is.
And it needs to be accounted for, just like you can't make politics in Poland pretending that the strong ultra-conservative Roman-Catholic fraction doesn't exist, which also happens to be ~30%.
This is largely a philosophical discussion - a patch that fakes a digital signature is certainly not something that looks good from security point of view, but that's only if you ignore the whole business context (=Google enforcing its monopoly with Google Services) and the patch has a very well-defined and limited scope.
MicroG cannot be installed, as it requires a patch to fake Google signatures. This patch is rejected for example by LineageOS, which is why there's a separate fork of Lineage with MicroG integrated https://lineage.microg.org/
Percentage of people that think having a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections would be a very or fairly good idea
🇷🇺 32%
🇵🇱 17%
https://www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/maptool.html
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But he's completely ignoring the fact that these regulations already exist in 27 Member States of EU, already with no court supervision or no appeal process. What TERREG does is to bring order into this mess and create an uniform process with guaranteed rights.
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🇬🇧I am honored to be participating in the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA negotiations as the Civil liberties committee’s LIBE opinion rapporteur.
Give us input on needed amendments using the public collaboration tool we have set up: https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/digital-services-act-consultation
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🇩🇪Es ist mir eine Ehre, an den Verhandlungen über das Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz #DSA als Berichterstatter des mitberatenden Innenausschusses mitwirken zu dürfen.
Ich bitte um euren Input über das von uns eingerichtete Beteiligungstool: https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/digital-services-act-consultation
@EdwardTorvalds I'm using signal on e.foundation ROM (MicroG) all the time and it works perfectly.
So far the largest political challenge in Russia was "if not Putin then whom", as Putin has very effectively removed (sometimes physically) any alternatives. "United Russia" became a silly collection of celebrities (welcome Yulia from "Tatu" this year), gangsters and FSB operatives.
Dissolution of Navalny organisation now has a potential to fill this gap by creating thousands of these alternatives, who are already gaining experience in local elections.
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Signal: Say 'Hello' to privacy while being forced to use Google Play Service which collocts huge amount of data and shows personalised ads.
Decentralisation will give these activists a chance to become much more confident and build their own brands.
Russian society has a strong tendency towards cult of personality. which is exactly how Putin was born, and how Navalny had a strong chance to become another Putin (even if the didn't want to).
In a few years time Putin will not face a single Navalny, but thousands of political activists with their own names and with well-established local networks.
Leonid Volkov explains what is happening to Navalny organisation after it was declared "extremist" - local branches will stop being "Navalny branches" and become 100% independent political organisations.
I think importance of this transition cannot be overstated - Navalny movement already holds on thousands of local activists, who are very close to the people and highlight issues such as infrastructure, roads, waste management, spatial planning etc.
https://tvrain.ru/teleshow/fishman_vechernee_shou/volkov-529229/
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@isagalaev Consider this as an analogue of discussions in other domains.
We know that the influenza virus exists. We know that there are non-human reservoir pools (it co-evolves in birds and swine, if not other animals as well).
What we've determined here is that if you disrupt the conditions necessary for it to propagate among humans you can virtually eliminate it within the human population, and reduce deaths by 97%.
As an analogue, we know that the viewpoints, thoughts, and expressions that occur via algorithmic social media exist without it. But somehow the addition of that highly-effective and "engagement-generating" distribution system has overwhelmingly toxic effects.
(Both viruses and memes are information transmission under selective pressure with behavioural consequences.)
"The Taliban was so annoyed by their constant fighting that they threw them in jail. But they eventually kicked them out when they continued to fight inside the prison."
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@xander_p Hi Oleksandr, welcome to Fedi!
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#introduction
Hello there. My name is Oleksandr (or "Sasha"), I recently started discovering the Fediverse.
I am a medical doctor by education, currently working on a PhD project in molecular medicine in Austria. I work half wet lab (cell and molecular biology) and half dry lab (bioinformatics, omics data analysis); my research focus is chronic liver diseases.
Outside work, I enjoy learning something new about computers and reading about space research.
Happy to be here & connect with you.
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RT @TheOnion@twitter.com
A self-made billionaire, Jim Walton of Arkansas earned his money when he successfully out-swam the other spermatozoa to fertilize his mother’s egg. https://bit.ly/3vRPDCs
During SARS-CoV-2 pandemics, the flu practically disappeared - 2020 brought just 600 U.S. flu deaths, down from more than 20,000 the previous year.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic/
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- OpenPGP
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- Website
- https://krvtz.net
- Matrix
- @kravietz:krvtz.net
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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