kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Microsoft: "As we work to protect public health, we also need to protect the income of hourly workers who support our campus" https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/03/05/covid-19-microsoft-hourly-workers/

A very good intro not only into the Colonies but also generally into the Ethereum ecosystem and economy.

Colony is an Ethereum application/system to manage distributed organisations and collectives.

https://colony.io/whitepaper.pdf

OpenSSL support (required by Nginx, Apache etc) seems to be in progress https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10489

One reason to use up-to-date #Linux kernels on your production servers is that they can do things faster. Linux 4.13+ has kTLS or kernel-level (!) TLS stack.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls-offload.html

On a brighter note, the head of Bulgaria's disease control agency has been reported as saying that "regular drinkers of hard liquor" are better-protected from contracting #coronavirus because the bug is sensitive to alcohol http://bgnews.space/2020/02/05/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84-%D0%B4-%D1%80-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8A%D1%82-%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%BA/?fbclid=IwAR0OvkGeXtvEYkrQ3QtMHSmak-miRLmqLczXiW_Rx1Dw_FAeot3q60aIDg4

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“NSA people traveled in true name, and sent far more people to meetings than CIA felt was advisable from a security standpoint,” the CIA history says. “One of the continuing irritants on the CIA side was this apparent lack of appreciation for traditional [agency] clandestine operational procedures.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-the-us-spied-on-the-world-the-cia-and-nsa-bickered/2020/03/06/630a4e72-5365-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

With Russians on trial in absentia for killing 298 in airliner shootdown, a look back at Russia’s #MH17 disinformation

https://www.stopfake.org/en/with-russians-on-trial-in-absentia-for-killing-298-in-airliner-shootdown-a-look-back-at-russia-s-mh17-disinformation/

California, EU, UK and Switzerland residents can request removal from #ClearView here https://www.clearview.ai/privacy/requests
Others are a tradeable commodity.

"Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand - written by an environmentalist who honestly talks about what modern environmentalism got right, and what it got completely wrong, and what is actually helping us to prevent the climate change.

"The Unthinkable" by Amanda Ripley. This is essentially an extremely useful and practical guide to help you see the actual risks in daily life rather than distract on inflated bullshit.

As I have just ordered "The Precipice", I will this as opportunity to share a few other books that I believe are critical to forming a rational picture of the modern world. So...

"Factfulness" by Hans Rosling

Women should carefully consider the privacy and security tradeoffs before deciding to use any fertility and pregnancy tracking applications.

https://www.eff.org/wp/pregnancy-panopticon

The Precipice explores the science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies we can take today to safeguard humanity’s future.

https://theprecipice.com/