kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

If you plan traveling across or into EU this is a very useful resource

https://reopen.europa.eu/

Just found it: systemd comes with a cool replacement for `chroot(1)` (on Ubuntu it's a separate package `systemd-container`) which not only virtualizes the filesystem root but actually wraps the process in a lightweight container.

Roscomnadzor gives up and unblocks Telegram.

The funny thing is that literally everyone in Russia, including state media journalists, politicians and ministers continued to use Telegram after it was "blocked" two years ago 😂

https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/06/18/russia-unblocks-telegram

It's actually quite ironic that renewable energy activism tends to completely ignore one critical resource it uses that also happens to be non-renewable: the land surface.

The challenge here is that the best renewable energy source (solar) uses three orders of magnitude (1000x) more land than the best non-renewable (gas).

To replace gas with nuclear you need pretty much the same area. But to replace gas with solar you suddenly need to find 1000x more extra space.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421518305512

"Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists", 7 January 1922

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-alexander-berkman-bolsheviks-shooting-anarchists

#communism #anarchism

A very interesting paper that looks at world economy and power consumption

Civilization networks grew from efficient past production. Energy sustains circulations along these networks. The ratio of GDP (or Y) to Energy consumption has increased as we've become more energy efficient. But cumulative GDP and Energy consumption has been tied by λ /2

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03718

Overview of PGP functional replacements - opmsg, age, saltpack, sio/ncrypt, signify, minisign, encpipe #opsec #pgp

https://krvtz.net/posts/pgp-replacements.html

Poland’s government will add the computer game This War Of Mine to the official reading list for children in schools, the prime minister has announced during a visit to the developer of the game, Warsaw-based 11 bit studios.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/06/18/poland-puts-computer-game-this-war-of-mine-on-school-reading-list/

A nice catch: created in April 2019, ObservateurContinental.fr presents itself as an “independent and non-profit information portal” and notoriously spreads COVID-19 fakes and other conspiracy theories.

https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/how-two-information-portals-hide-their-ties-to-the-russian-news-agency-inforos

"Collective demonizations of prominent cultural figures were an integral part of the Soviet culture of denunciation that pervaded every workplace and apartment building."

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-soviet-mentality

Kernel-based debugger for Linux applications

Stealthy debugging
No ptrace
Modern kernel features
GDB integration

https://github.com/plutonium-dbg/plutonium-dbg

Global Data Compression Competition (Huawei & Moscow State University) with total prize fund of 50,000 EUR.

https://globalcompetition.compression.ru/