Traits having the largest impact on income in the US - a *very* interesting article
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/06/02/what-trait-affects-income-the-most/
Religious fundamentalists give support to authoritarian oligarch ruler during struggle for control over disease-ridden country:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/donald-trump-church-photo-op-evangelicals
As I've revealed in my last Patreon post, I've been working on adding end-to-end encryption APIs into Mastodon as an upgrade to the direct message system.
Any and all technical details available at the moment are here:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820
An implementation guide for app developers is being worked on.
RT @ilumium@twitter.com
"The #EU must create a region-wide secure standard for online communications to avoid discussions between officials being hacked by either criminals or foreign governments", says 🇪🇪 DefMin Jüri Luik @MoD_Estonia@twitter.com.
Ehm, you mean something like @matrixdotorg@twitter.com ?
A big drama in the UK as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace discover that solar farms occupy plenty of space and cannot decide what is more evil: 7 hectares of nuclear power plant or 298 km2 of solar power plant.
Pure fantasy:
"So we have these... um, problems, you know... these problems and... I've been talking... by the way... Mr Putin also had problems... but different than us... liberals say we have um... civil war... but um, Mr Putin has other problems... and he is like... my good friend, you know... and he offered... help... you know, like with these insulators.. no, um... ventilators... except um, this time... he's got these... volunteers, you know... to help us make America great again"
Right now I think we need the words of the Great late MArtin Luther King Jr.
Here are his words on riots:
Роскомнадзор сформулировал критерии для запрета сайтов в Рунете
https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2020-06-01_roskomnadzor_sformuliroval
Согласно критериям, разработанным Роскомнадзором, под блокировку могут попасть сайты, содержащие описание запрещенной информации или упоминание адресов/ссылок на запрещенные веб-ресурсы.
Для тех, кому впадлу читать пояснения (зря!):
9.5 правил ведения IT-бизнеса в России
http://blog.micromarketing.ru/advice/9-point-5-rules-fot-it-business-in-russia/
1. Держите серверы за границей.
2. Регистрируйте домены за границей.
3. Регистрируйте компанию за границей.
4. Держите деньги за границей и не держите яйца в одной корзине.
5. Не держите, говорю, яйца в одной корзине!
6. Держите базы данных за границей.
7. Документируйте все, что касается вашего обеспечения.
8. Разделяйте активы и риски.
9. Еще можно отдаться добровольно.
10. Уезжайте за границу.
Someone from Aginskoe, a village/town in Russia near Mongolian border, rearranged rocks making a large hill-side locality name into "PUTIN THIEF" (ПУТИН ВОР). 😂
Local media shyly redacted the second word while reporting the story. They might be actually concerned with criminal liability imposed by the "offending the authorities" law, as people have been arrested for merely holding banners with "PUDDING LOR" written (nonsense text, just sounds similar) 😂
Just got another email from a blind user of SourceHut thanking me for caring about accessibility in my work. And honestly, it wasn't difficult. I don't understand why my peers in web development seemingly couldn't give a rat's ass about accessibility. Maybe because at their level of complexity, to them "accessibility" means "a shitload of aira tags and a ton of work", whereas at my level of complexity it means "just keep it simple and don't do anything particularly stupid"
More dark humor from Russia:
"If Gagarin today said: 'Went to space, saw no God'* he would be arrested. However, as a public figure, he might have gotten away with a suspended sentence"
😂
* words attributed to Gagarin by the USSR propaganda in support of the state atheism. State atheism was abandoned in 90's and then effectively replaced by state Orthodox church.
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.