kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

iter.org cryostat being lowered into its final position

Open-source privacy-friendly social networks including PeerTube and Mastodon in EU presentation by @echo_pbreyer 👍

https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/20-05-08_slides-social-media-use_en.pdf

Renewable energy believers like to spam any discussion with random links to "100% renewable models". I just got one...

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(19)30225-8#secsectitle0010

They start big: 716'000 off-shore wind turbines. To give you an idea how many that is, UK recently deployed an off-shore wind farm of 116 towers occupying 70 km2.

Per Stanford model, we'd need no less than 432'000 km2 or 1.2x size of Germany or a square of 700x700 km2 (with actual wind & sea depth).

But then, they mention 2.3m on-shore turbines...

DV (domain-validated) TLS authenticates your hostname.

Yggdrasil address is your public key so this is somewhat comparable to DV.

If you use FQDN that maps to Yggdrasil IPv6 then it's not authenticated though, unless you use DNSSEC as well.

Dear #yggdrasil service owners: do *not* merely add an Yggdrasil IPv6 address to your existing https website. It will always fail due to certificate mismatch and you can't get DV cert on Yggdrasil address.

Do create a HTTP-only mirror on Yggdrasil IPv6 or dedicated hostname - Yggdrasil already provides transport encryption so TLS is to some extent redundant.

So:

https://webcookies.pub (IPv4+IPv6)

http://y.webcookies.pub (Yggdrasil)

Alleged YouTube #censorship of Chinese expression Wu Mao (五毛) which is said to be the name for "CCP propaganda division". And it is blocked.

But then I find this - can anyone with *actual* knowledge of Chinese confirm?

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BA%94%E6%AF%9B/24163406

Wu Mao

Fifty cents, a buzzword on the Internet, mostly refers to posting a post in the forum for money. The reason why it is called the five cents is because the earliest posters, in addition to the base salary, pay a salary of fifty cents per post.

Matt Blaze, a veteran cryptographer, got it perfectly on Twitter:

"If this were WWII, these people would be refusing to use blackout curtains at night because having your city bombed is an important freedom."