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
Let's get semantics right before we go into the rabbit hole of "socialist" vs "capitalist" - I wrote this specifically after getting bored by such debates being completely pointless due to lack of agreement on what these terms mean:
https://write.as/arcadian/pragmatism-and-dogmatism-in-economy-capitalism-versus-socialism
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Feynman technique - a simple and powerful way to rapidly learn and retain new concepts.
1. Write down the name of concept you're trying to learn.
2. Explain it in plain English, as if you were teaching it to a new student.
3. Identify things you couldn't explain well, re-read the source material and research them. Try explaining again until these knowledge gaps are gone.
4. Simplify your explanation, get rid of technical terms and use simple analogies. ELI5.
@Wetrix They didn't. They actually saved thousands of lives which is clearly visible in data:
@Wetrix I wasn't aware of it, but I don't believe in anyone being obliged to "take seriously" whatever they started doing as a free contribution to the community. Either community takes over, or community donates, or good bye. Otherwise that would be equivalent to slavery.
@Wetrix You mean a new fediverse or new instance of the existing fediverse? The former would be a very bad idea. The latter very good. I'd certainly join a new instance managed by someone trusted in the community *and* who could receive donations on periodic basis to keep the thing running.
@Wetrix That sounds like some kind of very bad third-hand anti-vaxx scare stories 😱
@Wetrix Anywhere people will move, this will result in reducing load on privacytools.io and increasing load on the other platform 🤷 That's why I think firing up new instances in the only way to go.
@Wetrix It's a bit like "I'm not using any seat belts while driving, in NY there was an accident where a truck smashed a car and they all died even though they had seat belts" 😉 Even a single dose of any vaccine significantly reduces your chances of getting seriously sick with existing and new variants.
@Wetrix I'm tempted to run my own 😂 It would suit my standalone Matrix instance very well. I just need some time to choose platform and implement it.
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Covid tests in the UK are free
If you have covid symptoms, take a PCR test. Its free. https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test
If you don't have covid symptoms, but feel like you have a different kind of cold or have regular contact with people, you can get a free lateral flow test from your local pharmacy or chemist. You'll have a result in 30 minutes.
I'm posting this because a friend of mine with a cough was confused about this. Nobody resident in the UK who has symptoms or who is staying put in the UK needs to pay for a test.
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Трояны и бэкдоры в кнопочных мобильных телефонах российской розницы
https://habr.com/ru/post/575626/
1 September 1983 #USSR shot down South Korean passenger KAL 007. For a week USSR denied it completely. Then they argued it was not a civilian plane but a spy plane. The plane was shot down in international air space and USSR shortly identified the place of the crash and dragged remains using trawlers. Only in 1992 USSR declassified documents and transcripts from the military command showing the shoot down was done in mistake.
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The Wire team want to pay someone to prep the Android version of their chat app for distribution in @fdroidorg .
"We’re looking to hire someone to bring our app to F-Droid! Looking for a contractor who can handle an older scala codebase, and has experience around app notification processes, so we can remove the google dependencies of our application."
Contact info here:
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/wire-on-f-droid/14374
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⚠️ Synapse 1.41.1 is out, which fixes two moderate severity security issues. Homeserver admins: please upgrade.
Read more about this release on the Matrix blog https://matrix.org/blog/2021/08/31/synapse-1-41-1-released
According to HTTP Archive 62% out of top 1m websites load vulnerable JavaScript libraries. There's a significant drop from 2020 where the average was ~80% (!), apparently mass-scale web attacks taught some lessons https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web
Another #Stalin era mass grave found in Odessa, Ukraine 🇺🇦
🇬🇧 Government scraps fruitless Pick for Britain scheme to recruit UK farm workers
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pick-for-britain-farm-work-scheme-scrapped-961744
🇪🇺 European Union has just hit 70% fully vaccinated 👍
Ethereum delusion continuing 🤷 This toilet payment costed him around $50
- OpenPGP
- 6F7B6BB9A9B632555E1A03C132AF1F39C4EE03F2
- 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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