kravietz 🦇 @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
The art of cave rescue involves thorough knowledge of physics, knots and trust in your partners.
If you're looking for a tragicomedy screenplay: employees of Polish epidemiologic authority organize a pilgrimage to a prominent monastery of Jasna Góra in the middle of second wave of pandemic. There, 29 resident monks are diagnosed with #covid19. At the end you get both monks and trained epidemiology authority staff self-isolating... 🤦♂️
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@profoundlynerdy Thomas Paine's “Agrarian Justice” contains one of the many possible answers to your questions. He wasn't advocating for a full UBI, but his reasoning can be used to justify this kind of policy.
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Anatomy of a Disinformation Empire: Investigating NaturalNews
This report presents the findings of an extensive investigation into a network of domains connected to NaturalNews, a US-based commercial enterprise
and website promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation.
Using a combination of data analysis and open source intelligence (OSINT), this study examines the scale and nature of the NaturalNews network, including its reach on Facebook, its connections to and promotion of far-right and extremist ideology and its activities in relation to COVID-19 and the protests associated with the killing of George Floyd.
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/investigating-natural-news/
48 page PDF report: https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200620-ISDG-NaturalNews-Briefing-V4.pdf
#disinformation #propaganda #NaturalNews #GeorgeFloyd #ISDGlobal #isdn
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Today on Welcome to the Internet:
This person *drew* a RISC-V, single cycle, CPU by hand, scanned it to Logisim Evolution, and played the Bad Apple video on it
That's a whole new approach to #HardwareHacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfeswjPZuw
GitHub of the scanned circuit
https://github.com/T-K-233/RISC-V-Single-Cycle-CPU
Nice, 2019 Russian series "Plague" (Эпидемия) with Kirill Kyaro has been just published on Netflix in UK... Except it's called "To the lake" for some reason.
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In last 3 days 4 anarchists were kidnapped by the undercover cops from political wing of criminal police. 3 of them were already sentenced to 15 days in prison. 1 more person is still awaiting for the trial. #Belarus On the photo one of the activists.
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Reminds me of an old Polish song telling how the work of a welder is transforming the worker, and how the mystical electric arc works like an energy drink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2hd2EeJLyQ
Enjoy.
(No CCs, but you can copy-paste the lyrics from the description into your favourite translation service.)
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The new European Citizens' Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income has been launched. It will be examined by the commission if one million citizens support it, so I invite you to sign it and share it: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home
#EuropeanCitizensInitiative #ECI #BasicIncome #UBI #FundamentalRights #EuropeanUnion #EU
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Why do I care? Because #Python 3.9 has two very nice features:
- The removeprefix() and removesuffix() string methods, because HELL YES something to stop me from abusing strip()
- The | operator to merge dicts, and |= to update a dict. Oh yessss.
#Netflix again positively surprises with another pretty good Polish crime series "The Mire" (Polish "Rojs"), happening in 80's.
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Одного из верующих перед арестом вместе с женой отправили на обследование, потому что следователю ФСБ пакет сухого молока в их холодильнике напомнил «формулу наркотического средства»
"Once upon a time, I worked at a company where the lead scientist/CTO for one of the divisions had some compulsive behaviors. He was a German PhD electrical engineer of the small, wizened tinker gnome persuasion. Whatever Grimm’s fairy tale mental picture you have of a watch/clockmaker is pretty much spot on, though put him […]"
http://www.funraniumlabs.com/2017/09/the-tale-of-the-schrempeltraps/
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Pragmatism and dogmatism in economy - #capitalism versus #socialism — by arcadian
https://write.as/arcadian/pragmatism-and-dogmatism-in-economy-capitalism-versus-socialism
#writing
"Although the #ussr participated in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it and the other People’s Democracies abstained when a vote was cast in the UN General Assembly to approve the document."
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DuckDuckGo slams Google’s Android search engine auction as “fundamentally flawed” - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/29/21494316/microsoft-bing-android-google-search-alternative-option-download
- OpenPGP
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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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