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Been hearing a lot about the evolution of the FF logo, but this was unexpected...

developers want static typing

infoworld.com/article/3609589/

Note you *can* already have quite powerful type checking in Python using type annotations!

mypy-lang.org/

Saved my ass dozens of times...

Polish journalist arguing with "Stalin-Verstehers" in 1931:

"Western societies widely believe that Red Army only has defensive potential. They basically believe that 'if Red Army soldiers were ordered by Moscow to invade a foreign country country, they would mutiny'. I believe they are wrong."

And he was right 🤷

Dislike for Putin is no reason to automatically jump on any bullshit that implies Putin, and this is precisely the case.

The only thing that makes the case of MH17 and Smolensk crash similar is the propaganda techniques of Kremlin and Macierewicz respectively.

In both cases there's a massive body of internally consistent evidence that supports the official version. Both Kremlin and Macierewicz chose to flood the public with inconsistent conspiracies instead.

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Some media in Russia and Ukraine are distributing statements from Polish former minister of defence Antoni Macierewicz about alleged explosion on the Polish 🇵🇱 presidential Tu-154 in April 2010.

The only problem is that Macierewicz has been making these statements since 2010 and *never* produced any actual evidence.

He has been promising a "final report" to be published "very soon"... for the last three years.

t.co/d2a1jQaM4U собрал два миллиона рублей на покупку жестких дисков. На них будут хранить особо редкие раздачи

t.co/tedr1uSDfM

Источник: twitter.com/meduzaproject/stat

Regarding Navalny's alleged nationalist views - as if anyone in Russian gov was genuinely concerned by these... This is Dmitry Rogozin, current director of Roscosmos in a "we'll purge Moscow of garbage" anti-immigrant ad.

youtube.com/watch?v=xtqVYSaVGx

@kravietz Sir Francis Bacon said: "Knowledge is power", therefore, in reverse, if there is no profit, there is no truth.

В русскоязычных группах в Словакии та же хрень!!!

Особенности национальных форумов в США
Англоязычный форум:
— Здравствуйте, где можно купить хороших яблок?
— В магазине «Трейдер Джос»
— А в «Лунардисе» сейчас акция на яблоки
Итальянский форум:
— Здравствуйте, где можно купить хороших яблок?
— В магазине «Трейдер Джос», он, конечно, держится не итальянцами, но там мой дядя работает, они очень хорошие яблоки привозят
— А в «Лунардисе» сейчас акция на яблоки, там мой кузен привозит им поставки из самой Сицилии возит
— А еще можно заказать он–лайн вот на этом сайте, там продаёт моя тётя, они с мужем выращивают здесь в Калифорнии, но точно так, как в Тоскане
Русскоязычный форум (выходцев из постсоветского пространста):
— Здравствуйте, где можно купить хороших яблок?
— А зачем вам яблоки?
— Не понимаю, зачем вам яблоки, когда полно отличных груш
— Яблоки! здесь вам не совок, бросайте свои привычки
— Боже, когда мы двадцать лет назад сюда приехали, ни о каких яблоках вообще не думали, и ничего, сейчас все хорошо, нормально живем
— Девочки, где ваша эмпатия? Ну хочет человек яблок, неужели нельзя просто сказать, где их купить?
— Мы просто высказываем свое мнение, не надо нам делать замечания, мы живем в свободной стране — Вот именно, в свободной стране человек имеет право знать, где можно купить яблок
— Не покупайте здесь яблоки, они некачественные
— О, начинается, если тут такие плохие яблоки ну и ехали бы назад.
— Вы сами что ли загуглить не можете? Вот лентяи!
— Ишь какой, хочет все на блюдечке! Я вот в свое время весь город оббегал, чтобы хорошие яблоки найти!
— Вы сюда яблоки жрать приехали что ли?

@rf #яблоки #иммигранты

Stanford professor Jacobson, who is very vocal advocate of 100% renewable energy just published a paper with this graph ("correlation between wind energy output and building heat load in Texas").

There's actually an XKCD strip about this kind of statistics 😂

xkcd.com/1725/

Bypassing anti-tracking defences in web browsers using CNAME cloaking - already used by some tracking companies, blocked by Firefox, Brave, uBlock and to some extent Safari

arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301

In other news, my Twitter account was hacked. For real! I don't really know how. My best guess is my old password from the times before password managers, which I forgot to change as I wasn't using Twitter for a few years, got leaked through some database breach. And no, I didn't have 2FA set up either.

Contacted Twitter support, waiting for reply… Meanwhile some shady characters are already offering to restore it for a "small fee" (they contacted my wife when she twitted about it.)

Do you know someone who has recently claimed #UniversalCredit (UK welfare benefit) or helped someone else to claim it?

I'm leading an 11-week project to try and make it easier for the 25% of people who currently fail to register for UC remotely.

We're just into the prototyping phase and so are looking for (remunerated) user testers.

DM me if you've got leads. Boosts appreciated.

More info about the project here: medium.com/sector-challenge-9-

The great @k9mail mail app that ships in /e/OS is looking for funding to develop new features such as built-in autocrypt support!

Support them and get a better app!

#opensource #funding

k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail

Okay everybody, I have an idea. Since we are all limited in our range of movements and you probably cannot visit the city I live in, I offer to send you a physical postcard instead. How's that?

The largest problem I see is that you would have to DM me address information which requires some serious amount of trust so I don't know if that could work here on Fedi.

Is anyone on for a postcard from Berlin?

#JustCovidThings

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