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
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#VanessaNakate, a climate activist from Uganda, was cropped out of a press photo with other, "famous" climate activists, presumably because she's black
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#CloudFlare is now hitting the archive.org wayback machine with the same #CAPTCHA as #Tor users, thus censoring history too.
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PSA: If you do use #Brave browser, be aware it doesn't block #Facebook or #Twitter trackers
For Facebook tracking Brave white-lists
connect.facebook.net
connect.facebook.com
staticxx.facebook.com
www.facebook.com
scontent.xx.fbcdn.net
pbs.twimg.com
scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net
According to Brave developers, it's white-listed due to causing Facebook login to break if blocked.
See issue #1108 on Github
github.com/brave/brave-browser…
Mini #nuclear reactors could be generating power in the UK by the end of the decade.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-51233444
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The Nazi’s Philistine Grudge Against Abstract Art and The "Degenerate Art Exhibition" of 1937
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN
https://savedotorg.org/index.php/savedotorg-protest-at-icann/
(submitted by dredmorbius)
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90s sierra debug game: 5Kb of heap.
Your average electron app: 5GB of node_modules and 500MB of heap
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Your average electron app: 5GB of node_modules and 500MB of heap
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Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in the Linux kernel
https://outflux.net/slides/2020/lca/cfi.pdf
"YouTube does not consistently flag these same videos as problematic to viewers, despite ongoing criticism that the platform allows conspiracy theories, the alt-right, and extremism to flourish."
https://qz.com/1785613/how-youtube-shields-advertisers-not-viewers-from-harmful-videos/
Apple/Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a mechanism intended to improve privacy. It was found to have privacy vulnerabilities allowing sites to track the user (and fingerprint), and to stealing web browser history of a user. Incredible find.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07421
"What I learned as a developer from accidents in space" by Andrey Sitnik https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/what-i-learned-as-a-developer-from-accidents-in-space
UK has around 1/3 of total wind power installed in Europe, yet over the last day it was mostly burning gas at ~300 gCO2eq/kWh because... "installed" only works if there's wind. Compare to France at ~80 gCO2eq.
Meta Attack Language (MAL) for building computer system attack models and probabilistic simulations https://github.com/mal-lang/malcompiler/wiki/MAL-language-specification
iCloud is now officially a surveillance tool. Apps that are relying on it to store your private messages (such as WhatsApp) are part of the problem https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
Today with no wind and cloud cover over EU non-nuclear countries are running coal and gas mostly, emitting plenty of CO2 and other pollution.
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- 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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