kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

sometimes, bacteria just scoop up DNA just floating around minding its own business, and then add it to their own DNA. This is known as horizontal gene transfer, or HGT. It happens all the time, hell, bacteria have been known to occasionally become resistant to some antibiotics by STEALING GENES from OTHER SPECIES of bacteria! The tree of life isn't even a tree! We've done away with that model, it's more accurate to refer to the model as a "braided stream".

And this strange behavior isn't even unique to bacteria, there are examples of plant to plant gene transfer, plant to animal gene transfer, plant to fungus gene transfer, fungus to insect, the list goes on!

basically, the tree of life, when you zoom in close enough, really is a spectrum. The misconception of people who don't understand evolution is partially because the idea of "species" as hard coded boundaries is very natural for us. We love categories and patterns, and unfortunately for us, nature is just not as simple as we'd prefer it to be. Over both space and time, the boundaries between species is blurry. There is no "missing link" because it was always a gradual series of changes to different populations across the world to begin with. The world is a messy and complicated place, and we're all distant cousins of each other.

look, it at the end of the day, the idea of species is a made up social construct. it is a very, very useful concept, but like, at the end of the day where you draw the lines of what is a single organism is arbitrary, where you draw the line at what is and is not a deer is made up, and how you define deer is equally as arbitrary as our definition of human. if we want anything to mean anything then we need to come to some vague consensus that things mean things

Both the Twitter and CloudFlare debacles show that "Layer Eight" is always going to be the weakest, most vulnerable area for information systems.

Mobilizon is a free open federated events system for the Fediverse, designed to get people off Facebook Events. You can follow the project here:

@mobilizon

It's currently in beta testing, and is made by @Framasoft (the makers of PeerTube and many other free open projects).

Mobilizon's official site is at https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

#Mobilizon #Fediverse #Events #FacebookEvents #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre

@aldonogueira Install, login, authorize your new #Element client via #RiotX or a desktop client with an active login to restore your encrypted chat history, uninstall RiotX. You can also manually use your encryption key to recovery encrypted messages. key@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology @matrix

#Element (formerly #RiotIM) is now published on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/im.vector.app/

This is a new app replacing both Riot.im and RiotX, it's based on the RiotX codebase.

"AWS is aware of a security issue, recently disclosed by the Kubernetes community, affecting Linux container networking (CVE-2020-8558). This issue may allow containers running on the same host, or adjacent hosts (hosts running in the same LAN or layer 2 domain), to reach TCP and UDP services bound to localhost (127.0.0.1)."

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2020-002/

Thunderbird 78 rolls out with various UI redesigns, including a much improved dark mode. Also, integrated PGP / GPG support.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/07/whats-new-in-thunderbird-78/
#thunderbird

В общем мой эксперимент с LinageOS можно считать успешным. На 5 летнем телефоне в режиме ожидания без гуглясервиса телефон живёт 7 дней (включен вайфай). 3 часа мобильного интернета с включенным экраном всё же жрут батарею неплохо.

Так как у меня телефон - это просто телефон, то мне достаточно основных приложений из f-droid. В крайнем случае есть aurora store, чтобы скачать тот Signal.

Теперь надо повторить всё то же самое на основном телефоне.

@rf В общем, удоляй гугель со своего телефона.

@efftoyz
а если добавить в F-Droid репозиторий Unofficial Mozilla, то и Signal с Google Play качать не понадобится
https://rfc2822.gitlab.io/fdroid-firefox/fdroid/repo
@rf