kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

So they say the protests are paid by CIA, Mossad, Aliens or whatever. Meeting with 100 000+ people with a sound system made out of one Bluetooth speaker. #Belarus #Minsk. This is all self-organized and still needs a lot of energy from simple people.

Mobile internet is now off or working extremely slow in certain parts of #Minsk, #Belarus

The armed kid on the video is actually Lukashenko's sun Kolia. He is 15 years old and already has more equipment on him, than his father. #Belarus

@kravietz @kawaiipunk

AFAIK there was (and still is) nothing preventing govt quietly building the citizens database anyway (which is what appears to now be being done for the Police as well as adding police-related records to it!)

Although ID cards are unpopular, it had already reached the stage that a young adult got carded everywhere if trying to buy alcohol or enter entertainment premises at night, so most just got provisional driving licence photocards (even if they didn't drive yet) >>

@kravietz @kawaiipunk

OTOH the DVLA/DVSA tend to get things mostly right (at least nowadays) and have decades of experience of doing so.

A bigger problem is rampant privatisation and outsourcing of Govt IT services in the 2000s, which further fragmented how IT systems were deployed in the public sector and prevented departments fully working together for a few years (since 2010 onwards there seems to be attempts to address that, but they are of course regaining lost ground)

More and more schools in Germany chose Matrix. After Schleswig-Holstein and the "HPI Schul-Cloud" now Nordrhein-Westfalen starts to offer a Matrix based messenger to all schools. Yes, it is possible to build digital infrastructure for schools with Free Software and Open Standards.
https://www.logineo.schulministerium.nrw.de/LOGINEO-NRW/NEU-LOGINEO-NRW-Messenger/Messenger.html (de) #Matrix #FreeSoftware #Eductaion #OpenStandards

So very true in many cases... 🤣

Early this year #archlinux started using #zstandard for their packages:

> zstd and xz trade blows in their compression ratio. Recompressing all packages to zstd with our options yields a total ~0.8% increase in package size on all of our packages combined, but the decompression time for all packages saw a ~1300% speedup.

www.archlinux.org/news/now-usi…

This woman, who has done a great deal of good in her life, deserves better than this. She has been a wonderful activist for equal rights as well as science and deserves some support.

I rarely share go fund me pages, but this one seems worth sharing.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/shields-up-nichelle-nichols

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A lot of state propagandists from state media have quit their jobs or went on strike in last days. To replace them belarusian regime is now bringing russian media workers. (on the picture belarusian state news agency reposting Russia Today) #Belarus

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For ISPs and telcos who have had a rubbish day because of the Equinix outage, this should probably be your evening reading.

QT decodedlegal: “Network operators: reporting obligations for reductions in availability”

A quick (but detailed) blogpost on when ISPs and telcos need to notify Ofcom because things have gone badly wrong and stopped working.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2020/08/network-operators-reporting-obligations-for-reductions-in-availability