kravietz π¦ @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
When calling to remove statues of all people with racist episodes in their biographies just keep in mind that Margaret Sanger was an enthusiastic supporter of eugenics, ran a "Negro Project" & wrote about "sinister forces of the hordes of irresponsibility and imbecility"...
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In other words, socializing with bigoted people can help them become both less bigoted, and less succeptible to following authoritarian leaders. If you can't handle doing that or you choose not to, no judgment. It's not compulsory and neither should it be. But maybe think twice before you accuse people of sympathizing with nasty ideas, just because they choose to socialize with people who broadcast them.
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1) Violent protests aren't a good way to get your message across.
2) After relatively minimal violent protesting, both Microsoft and Amazon have ceased selling facial recognition tech to cops.
What was #1 again?
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Tech corporations demand "freedom" to exploit the software commons without contributing to it. To use open source communities and their volunteers as unpaid interns, while keeping the platforms they build on top of their work proprietary, and patent-encumbered. To ensure their ability to keep doing this, they run a constant PR offensive against copyleft licenses that oblige reciprocity, framing them as a denial of developer freedom (to prevent users and other developers using their freedoms).
Speaking of globalized digital economy, this is precisely how it works - note the "earned" part. And this is really great for global progress.
Who gives the most aid to #Serbia? In polls most people indicate China, while in reality vast majority of actual money comes from EU.
This was a huge problem in the UK as well. EU has a fundamental issue with PR as governments happily take many, present them as their achievement, and then blame EU for their own failings...
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Awesome guide from @levansfr@twitter.com for Synapse powerusers on tuning disk space. We'll be incorporating as much of this as possible into Synapse itself in future :)
RT @levansfr@twitter.com
[blog] Compressing Synapse database
How I got the database of my @matrixdotorg@twitter.com homeserver down from 100GB in size to under 8GB
https://levans.fr/shrink-synapse-database.html
π¦π: https://twitter.com/levansfr/status/1271101625759825931
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Using #LoRa (long range) frequencies to leverage the reach of #briar.
(a e2e encrypted messenger that routes everything through Tor when there is internet connection, if there is none, it can create a meshnet)
Currently only a gitlab issue.
But a prototype that uses #meshtastic instead of briar reports to have a reach for about 1-2km (single device to single device) and can be used for around 8 days without recharging.
More about that here:
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/1742
Ulyanovsk in Russia has a monument dedicated to the letter Ρ (yo) which is often replaced by Π΅ (ye) due to awkward placement on keyboard (I suspect?).
On translit keyboard layout which I'm using it's no bother, so I can write ΡΡΡΡ as much as I like π
Latest Levada open question poll about people who inspire Russians - and in two age groups (25-39, 40-54) Navalny is mentioned just as often as Putin. Mark of times...
This also says a lot about the ineffectiveness of state propaganda, as since 1999 trust in state media has fallen dramatically and people switched to social media... and Navalny can into YouTube :)
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And #Keybase sold itself to this company. π€¦ββοΈ 
Worth reading entirely, from a psychiatrist point of view.
"Trump's mind runs on a formula which bends and twists facts, ideas and memories to suit his malignant narcissism. This is why Trump contradicts himself so easily. He lies and makes things up. His fantasies all serve his malignant narcissism and the world he has created in his own mind about his greatness."
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Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
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Someone just made a $2.6 million mistake on #Ethereum
https://decrypt.co/31830/someone-just-made-a-2-6-million-mistake-on-ethereum
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Very true article about how and why websites see less traffic and google slowly expands their semi-monopoly even further:
https://hackernoon.com/how-wikipedia-lost-3-billion-organic-search-visits-to-google-in-2019-qz6630u6
Consider to use the search feature of your browser and search directly on Wikipedia for things you want to know.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
Protip: use keywords like "wen" or "wde" or just "w" to start you searches with those keywords and automatically end up on the search engine of your desire.
2020 is fun!
New Zealand suburb terrorised by feral chickens in βStephen King-like scenesβ
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Our main website is now on the RockPro64 Cluster as well! This mostly concludes our infrastructure move (though there's some file storage left to go...).
Thanks for your patience with any downtime or slowness you have have experienced over the past few hours!
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- @kravietz:krvtz.net
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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