kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving #coronavirus treatments

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments

Why it's important to use a real email address for your sourcehut account: I just emailed a dozen people to tell them that their CI builds are going to break with the incoming deprecation of a build image. One of their emails bounced, and they're in for a nasty surprise when their shit starts breaking next week

The http://matrix.org server is seeing its highest traffic levels ever today. We’re battling to keep it performant (via incr optimisations to state res and the multimaster support), but meanwhile you may want to run your own server or get one from @ModularIM@twitter.com, @ungleich@twitter.com etc.

Have a gaming PC? Coronavirus-specific GPU folding@home is now available. https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/fhb5e4/coronavirus_specific_gpu_projects_are_now/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Need a web conference tool?

Setting up production-ready jitsi in a container on a new VM took me like 10 Minutes:

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet/

Highly recommend this if you tired of cloud services being overloaded.

For long term usage you might want do customize details a bit more.

#workingFromHome #homeoffice #remoteWorking #adminForRemoteWorkers

Oops!

"Microsoft Teams goes down for two hours as Europe logs on to work remotely"

For those who have a say in tools they use and want an alternative, give https://about.riot.im/ a chance. Free, open-source, encrypted and supports chat, file sharing, video/voice calls...

So tiktok pushes to reinforce existing power structures by muting critique on their own platform, states and religion, while at the same time intentionally limit or even ban people considered "ugly" by moderators and the moderation policy from their app usage.

Don't be an asshole. Don't be like tiktok. If you have the app installed, get rid of it. Please. This is not the first time they are criticized for that and they did it again.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/

#tiktok #censorhsip #unethical

Интернет-доступ к порталу госуслуг и сайтам всех федеральных и региональных органов власти РФ по всей стране станет бесплатным с 1 марта 2020 года.
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Интернет-омбудсмен Дмитрий Мариничев заявил, что в этом фактически нет никакой уязвимости для коммерческих операторов, а также нет никаких экономических потерь.
https://roskomsvoboda.org/54664/

Будущее:

Бесплатный интернет из трёх гос.сайтов.
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@rf @russian_mastodon

Bad places for project documentation:

* blog posts
* mailing list archives, public
* mailing list archives, private
* private emails
* chat logs
* commit messages
* closed tickets
* open tickets
* letters to the editor, published
* letters to the editor, unpublished
* people's heads
* cave paintings
* DNA of custom bacteria
* interstellar probes
* value of pi