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ooh, that's helpful. thanks, equipment!

RT @indrora@twitter.com

This applies to servers, services, people, etc.

Your long uptime is a liability waiting to happen.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/indrora/status/138

USSR idealization rant, long (cities, greenery) 

"Look, Moscow is the greenest city on the planet, it's 50% green! That's because USSR built high-density housing so that there is more green spaces for its residents!"

Except that USSR did not build high-density housing in order for there to be more green spaces.
USSR built cheap housing, and high-density is cheap.
USSR built 5-story buildings when these were the cheapest.
Once it became cheaper to build 9-story buildings (I think it was 60-70s), USSR started to build 9-story buildings.
Once it became cheaper to build 12 or 16-story buildings (I think it was 80s), USSR started to building these, no matter what.

A small town in a middle of nowhere with a projected population of 2 thousand people?
Let's build five 5-story prefab buildings there, with one 40qm apartment per family, and put everybody into these buildings.
And USSR fans will later say it was so that there will be more green spaces.

Also whatever street greenery is there is predominantly female populus (almost all street greenery in USSR was female populus), and trust me, you do _not_ want to be there for that month while it is blooming, even if you're not allergic.

Not to mention that "the greenest city on the planet" is a lie, 50% seems to come from some official statistics which is a lie and is not in any way related to reality, I lived in Moscow and near Moscow for 15 years, it's not in any way 50% green.
I've been in quite a lot of cities of Western Europe, and they all were much greener than Moscow.
The greenest city I've ever been in? Hong Kong, which is like 90% covered by forests, not mentioning all the urban parks.

To recap:

1. In 2018, What Free Words (WFW) reverse engineers what3words (w3w) in a clean room with JavaScript.
2. WFW is ported to other languages.
3. In 2019, w3w legally goes after WFW for trademark and copyright infringement.
4. WFW is effectively pulled offline.

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Ну что, мои дорогие читатели, отдохнули? Делу время, потехе час

В апреле 2021 года был подписан Федеральный закон от 05.04.2021 № 85-ФЗ «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон «Об образовании в Российской Федерации». Закон вступает в силу 01 июня 2021. Этим законом вводится в том числе понятие просветительской деятельности. Несмотря на громоздкое определение, вкратце это: «просветительская деятельность — осуществляемая вне рамок образовательных программ деятельность, направленная на распространение знаний...». Весь оставшийся список — это частные случаи знаний и перефразировки (Госдума переняла стилистику ФОИВ, у которых какой-то негласный конкурс на литье воды посредством перефразировок одного и того же). Там же два бессмысленных пункта «просветительскую деятельность осуществляют те, кто её осуществляют» (очень ёмкое информативное утверждение) и «просветительская деятельность должна чтить уголовный кодекс», как будто бы без этого уточнения можно его не чтить. Но дьявол затаился в пункте «Порядок, условия и формы.. порядок проведения контроля за ней устанавливается Правительством» «точка конец цитаты». Т.е. весь смысл закона спустить спорную норму на Правительство без ограничений.
publication.pravo.gov.ru

Кстати, теперь закон «Об образовании» содержит две противоречивые нормы. Этот закон устанавливает понятие «дополнительное образование» (статья 2 пункт 14), явно пересекающееся с «просвещением» (статья 2 пункт 35 (не вступил в силу, процитирован выше)). А глава 10 (статьи 75 и 75) устанавливают требования к дополнительному образованию. И к непрофессиональному дополнительному образованию явно устанавливается отсутствие специальных требований к лицам. Что немного не согласуется с новой статьей 12.2, отдающей всё на поруки Правительства.
consultant.ru

Как вы думаете, Правительство создало порядок? Он продуман, соответствует нормам права и российского законодательства и однозначно трактуется?

В пятницу 23 апреля 2021 года под вечер Минпросвещения (какой каламбур-то) размещает проект Постановления Правительства «Об утверждении Положения об осуществлении просветительской деятельности». Половину акта занимает подробное описание по каким направлениям может вестись просветительская деятельность, в каких формах. Процитирую краткую выжимку: «по иным направлениям», «в иных формах». Одновременно с этим устанавливается, что просвещение может теперь осуществляться только по договору с учреждением культуры, науки или образования. К физическим лицам предъявляются строгие требования (в том числе к сотрудникам организаций), например, отсутствие судимости (общие ограничения на занятие просветительской деятельностью). Иностранным агентам запрещено заниматься просвещением. Контроль за соблюдением осуществляется теми организациями, с которыми заключили договор. Если они находятся в ведении госорганов, то — госорганами (это важное уточнение)
regulation.gov.ru

#usher2 #clownregulation

"A few weeks ago, my IT teacher posted this in our classroom.."

by Sburr_

The Movement MCS Percussion Computer was a very rare British-made drum machine produced approximately between 1981 (MKI) and 1983 (MKII).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement

The local gov. is installing such benches in my neighborhood. Super cool, some local business, e.g., bakeries will profit from that, and of course their clients (including me). #haifa

18 February 1929 Russian writer and poet Varlam Shalamov was arrested accused of violating article 58 item 10 of Criminal Code of the RSFSR ("anti-Soviet agitation") for illegally printing... Lenin's letters from 1922.

The reason, in spite of the fact that Lenin was still one of the official Soviet saints, was that the letters were highly critical of Stalin. In 30's the letter was declared a "fake" and its possession was a crime, only decriminalised and again declared genuine in 1956.

RT @SarahJ_Berry@twitter.com

Instead of roads breaking up pavements, pavements should break up roads.

Because people walking and wheeling should get priority over cars in any area where they're likely to be in abundance.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/SarahJ_Berry/statu

WTF ... Mozilla had always running JavaScript inside PDFs disabled by default.

But now with FF 88 this option is ENABLED by default. Which means, if a PDF file contains JS it will run without any user interaction. What can possibly go wrong?

To disable this:

about:config
pdfjs.enableScripting --> false

# FF 78.10 ESR doesn't include this option and still blocks JS in PDFs by default. Just tested.

🇬🇧I am honored to be participating in the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA negotiations as the Civil liberties committee’s LIBE opinion rapporteur.

Give us input on needed amendments using the public collaboration tool we have set up: greens-efa.eu/en/digital-servi

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🇩🇪Es ist mir eine Ehre, an den Verhandlungen über das Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz #DSA als Berichterstatter des mitberatenden Innenausschusses mitwirken zu dürfen.

Ich bitte um euren Input über das von uns eingerichtete Beteiligungstool: greens-efa.eu/en/digital-servi

So far the largest political challenge in Russia was "if not Putin then whom", as Putin has very effectively removed (sometimes physically) any alternatives. "United Russia" became a silly collection of celebrities (welcome Yulia from "Tatu" this year), gangsters and FSB operatives.

Dissolution of Navalny organisation now has a potential to fill this gap by creating thousands of these alternatives, who are already gaining experience in local elections.

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Signal: Say 'Hello' to privacy while being forced to use Google Play Service which collocts huge amount of data and shows personalised ads.

Decentralisation will give these activists a chance to become much more confident and build their own brands.

Russian society has a strong tendency towards cult of personality. which is exactly how Putin was born, and how Navalny had a strong chance to become another Putin (even if the didn't want to).

In a few years time Putin will not face a single Navalny, but thousands of political activists with their own names and with well-established local networks.

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Leonid Volkov explains what is happening to Navalny organisation after it was declared "extremist" - local branches will stop being "Navalny branches" and become 100% independent political organisations.

I think importance of this transition cannot be overstated - Navalny movement already holds on thousands of local activists, who are very close to the people and highlight issues such as infrastructure, roads, waste management, spatial planning etc.

tvrain.ru/teleshow/fishman_vec

@isagalaev Consider this as an analogue of discussions in other domains.

We know that the influenza virus exists. We know that there are non-human reservoir pools (it co-evolves in birds and swine, if not other animals as well).

What we've determined here is that if you disrupt the conditions necessary for it to propagate among humans you can virtually eliminate it within the human population, and reduce deaths by 97%.

As an analogue, we know that the viewpoints, thoughts, and expressions that occur via algorithmic social media exist without it. But somehow the addition of that highly-effective and "engagement-generating" distribution system has overwhelmingly toxic effects.

(Both viruses and memes are information transmission under selective pressure with behavioural consequences.)

@kravietz

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