kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

I have mixed feelings about this publication - on one hand, illustrating an article about economics of nuclear power by a picture of an exploding liquid gas (!) tank is kind of out of the blue, on the other hand it kind of highlights that fossil gas is actually much more dangerous than nuclear power.

I guess I'll just settle on an opinion that a scientific article illustrated by tabloid-style photos isn't really too scientific.

IEA: "Methane emissions from global oil & gas operations in 2020 were broadly equivalent to all the energy-related CO2 emissions from the entire EU"

EU: "let's keep methane in green renewable energy taxonomy!"

https://www.iea.org/reports/driving-down-methane-leaks-from-the-oil-and-gas-industry

Code from highly respected F5 enterprise web security appliances basically runs tar as root on input from HTTP at /mgmt/tm/util/bash URL 🤔 And it's 2021.

Details from NRC https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2014/07/28/negative-ion-technology-what-you-should-know/

Wow this beats even the famous German radon baths!

In the times of widespread radiophobia, comes out there's a whole massive market of quackery targeted at fans of all kinds of "natural therapies" - devices that promise "negative ions", "electromagnetic shield" etc.

...which basically are bracelets or tokens filled with... slightly radioactive thorium oxide, with measurable emissions.

I wonder how many of these people call attend anti-nuclear marches 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=225&v=3BA5bw1EV5I

Second case study when a customer has a policy of just installing security updates on #linux and it screws up things eventually.

clamav-freshclam was updated last year to support https URLs and fix a few other bugs exposed when using private mirrors.

It's *not* a security update, so it's not installed, so the whole mirroring process is broken.

Earlier I had the same with GeoIP libraries, which aren't "security" update either but they impact security significantly.

"Science" 😂

Nerdy but 😂 😂 😂 😂