kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

> Finland college is free
> If you get a PhD they give you an honorary sword

This is how you motivate people.

China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool in 2014—and Used It for Years

https://www.wired.com/story/china-nsa-hacking-tool-epme-hijack/

i would advise anyone wishing to migrate to America from a developing country to consider other countries, perhaps one in Western Europe. while America may improve your standard of living, it's a very tough and competitive environment, you will receive minimal help from the government, healthcare costs you money, wages are poor for the working class even for the locals, and the politicians are more corrupt than most other developed countries.

if you migrate to the EU/EFTA/EEA area, you have more options. once you're established, you can easily move to another country if you don't like the one you're in at the moment. just find a job within 3 months of arriving there and you're good to go. you don't have to apply for a visa. within the Schengen area, you don't even need to display your passport to cross the borders.

Yes, they patched it, but I still don't like #Keybase, also because it was (partially) bought by #Zoom. I use the decentralized solution @keyoxide for this and yes it is more complex but you only do this once and then you have it. Apart from that there should now be a #shell #script for it.

#privacy #security #itsecurity #itsec #verify

https://www.zdnet.com/article/keybase-patches-bug-that-kept-pictures-in-cleartext-storage-on-mac-windows-clients/

I still can't throw away food. I can't watch other people throw away food, it makes me physically dizzy. And now I am watching an entire country throw away its democracy with a shrug.

Imagine that you move to a village where there is enough food for everyone, but before you get a chance to have that one healthy meal, the barn that has all the food for the entire village goes on fire, and most of the village just stares at it and shrugs, "that food wasn't that nice anyway."

That must be what starving French peasants felt when Marie Antoinette told them to eat cake when they had no bread.

Now imagine living like that since as long as you can remember yourself as a kid. Imagine this feeling of need being the constant background of your existence, imagine being so used to it that you don't even realize that it is possible to not have it, to have food security, to be able to manage a healthy diet rather than eat whatever providence lands on your table.

Imagine that you know hunger. Not the kind you feel after a day full of meetings makes you miss lunch and bad shuttle schedule makes you also miss dinner. The one that makes your guts ache, that makes you pass out, the one that makes you dream of food and salivate in your sleep and wake up in the middle of the night with the overwhelming feeling of need.

I saw my own country walk the path from a flawed democracy to authoritarianism. I saw the colonial superpower next door, Russia, walk the same path even faster and get all the way back to totalitarianism. Now I see my new country, the one where I still don't have a right to vote, set off down the same path. Don't tell me there is no further down, I've been down this road before, and believe me America is at its very beginning, and I don't think there is a bottom.

I don't know how to describe what I feel when Americans tell me that their votes don't matter much, that American democracy isn't something worth saving, or that it already is beyond saving.

When my new country, Belarus, elected its first (and so far, the only) president in 1994, I wasn't old enough to vote. By the time I was, he has shut down the Constitutional Court, dismissed the Parliament, and put a loyalist in charge of the Elections Commission. I didn't get a chance to vote. I never had a chance to vote in my life.