kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Modern Russia is not North Korea and there is free speech there (although pushed to the corner), but job of a journalist there is still associated with a risk of assassination by "unknown perpetrators". So it takes some courage:

"Journalists at Vedomosti, one of Russia’s most prominent business publications, on Thursday accused their editor of imposing stifling pro-Kremlin censorship upon them and suggested the board of directors appoint someone else"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-newspaper/journalists-at-prominent-russian-business-newspaper-complain-of-pro-kremlin-censorship-idUSKCN22539G

Russian oil companies consider burning already extracted oil that they cannot sell and to reduce supply as part of agreement within the OPEC cartel https://www.finanz.ru/novosti/birzhevyye-tovary/rossiya-nachnet-szhigat-lishnyuyu-neft-1029124044

What everyone always wanted but was to lazy to compile: a feature comparison between various video conferencing platforms

https://freedom.press/training/blog/videoconferencing-tools/

If you want to learn about machine learning this is the best intro course I've seen so far. They have just uploaded the whole series to YT.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMiGQp3WXShtMGgzqpfVfbU

"Across Russia, #COVID19 patients are getting doxxed and harassed. Sometimes, their home addresses show up online just minutes after they test positive. Our investigation traced many of these leaks to medical staff, police, and neighbors."

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/04/23/we-should-know-them-by-name

"Sacrifice The Weak. Re-Open Tennessee"

Note this is early research, but very interesting:

"DNA is just the ingredient list, not the set of instructions used to build and maintain a living organism. The instructions, he says, are much more complicated, and they're stored in the molecules that regulate a cell's DNA and other functioning systems"

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-dna-life-bookjust-jumbled-ingredients.html

Ubuntu 20.04 - tomorrow is the date :) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-features

gcc 10 now has a static analysis built in (-fanalyzer) and here's how it works internally

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/doc/analyzer.texi;h=67efa52953b860fe828ab49d01b28ba336329b19;hb=757bf1dff5e8cee34c0a75d06140ca972bfecfa7

Kiwi, a Chromium-based web browser for #android that supports add-ons is now fully open-source http://androidpolice.com/2020/04/20/chromium-based-kiwi-browser-completely-open-source

Remotely exploitable out-of-bounds condition in #freebsd ipfw firewall

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2020-April/001945.html

Hitachi HDD 4 TB drives should have much better MTBF than Seagate and have decent transfers... but man, they' re noisy like a tractor!

Just testing two really great infrastructure security products Wallarm and Vulners.com. At @webcookies I've been using Vulners API for years, but now I've actually implemented the server-side scanner. Wallarm has a WAF (testing soon) but also a really cool DAST scanner.

Oil prices now