kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

A UN investigation into atrocities committed in #Syria has for the first time accused #Russia of direct involvement in war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/russia-committed-war-crimes-in-syria-finds-un-report

Large grocery stores in Poland must now donate unsold food to charitable organisations, after the Act on Counteracting Food Waste came into force at the start of this month, reports Business Insider Polska. Smaller shops will from next year be obliged to follow suit.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/03/02/polish-supermarkets-must-donate-unsold-food-under-new-law/

The truth is that nobody gives a f... about targets that were set based on "where practical, cost-effective and affordable" criterion. It's never "cost-effective" to upgrade rented homes because that would reduce landlord's profit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50573338

Another "decentralized" cryptocurrency goes centralized. Bitcoin for long time has vast majority of hashing power centralized in China and shared between a few large pools. Seems like cryptographers should have also learned about economy and chaotic systems.

Why you never supply real data in their forms...

"Rail station wi-fi provider exposed traveller data"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51682280

"Some of the calls potentially put people’s safety at risk as they were made to Network Rail’s Banavie Control Centre, and clogged up the line for drivers and pedestrians at unmanned level crossings, who were calling to check it was safe to cross the rails."

Scottish company hit with maximum fine for making nearly 200 million nuisance calls https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2020/03/scottish-company-hit-with-maximum-fine-for-nuisance-calls/

With tons of #Arduino libraries written in rush and without security in mind, we're now back to 90's with all the old nice C exploits like format strings, buffer overruns etc...

This is from Webduino, an Arduino webserver, as posted by isis agora lovecruft on Twitter, with at least a few potential buffer overflows

Seems like latest KeePassXS supports for Freedesktop Secret Service, which is a nice and standard way of storing and sharing passwords between apps within a Linux system

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/secret-service/latest/ch01.html

Altered Carbon S2 is suspenseful: characters are frequently suspended in endless retrospects and philosophical discussions with sad violin music background...

You can actually model a virus infection in Netlogo, playing with parameters such as mortality and infectiousness

http://netlogoweb.org/launch#http://netlogoweb.org/assets/modelslib/Sample%20Models/Biology/Virus.nlogo

"But Price did get a lot of flak. Along with hundreds of letters of support, and magazine covers labelling him "America's best boss", many of Gravity's own customers wrote handwritten letters objecting to what they saw as a political statement."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51332811