kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Over 40 lawers filed a legal complaint with Moscow court against the arrest of Ivan Pavlov, the lawyer defending Navalny team.

Next step of Kremlin: declare all Moscow lawyers foreign agents 😂

https://meduza.io/news/2021/05/05/bolee-40-advokatov-podali-zhaloby-na-meru-presecheniya-ivanu-pavlovu

"Megan Cole, a student studying philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at Birmingham University, is fighting back. Following a year-long tenancy filled with faulty appliances, leaky ceilings, mould, and ant infestations, Cole has won a two-year legal battle against her unlicensed landlord, who has been ordered to repay the entire year’s rent."

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/52661/1/student-took-rogue-landlord-to-court-wrote-dissertation-on-it-renting-university

Wow it seems like gov.uk is actually using guix for configuration management https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix

Researchers analyze the host origins of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-host-sars-cov-coronaviruses.html

#covid

And if you think he's "enemy of renewables", he's not. He makes it clear that the story of Texas blackouts was due to decline in fossil gas supply that was not expected, as opposed to decline in wind generation that was expected.

Predicted US renewable energy share from different authors vs reality

https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/institutional/insights/market-insights/eye-on-the-market/annual-energy-outlook/

Will it work this time? Maybe yes, maybe not - it depends on many factors.

One thing is certain, you can't put all eggs in one basked and assume that hydrogen or any other *prospective* technology *will* certainly work, because if it doesn't (and it's quite likely) then you either end up with blackouts (unlikely as nobody can tolerate that) or backup in the dirtiest possible energy generation technology like coal or fossil gas (actually happening).

Hydrogen energy works, but engineering and economy are what makes a huge difference between a lab-scale prototype and successful mass-scale tech.

Hydrogen comes with engineering and safety challenges, which makes it very expensive in "daily usage" that eventually made the past hydrogen hypes fail.

When you read about the "hydrogen breakthrough" that is just behind the corner, be sure to check the past hype cycles on the same subject:

It seems like @meduzaproject fundarising campaign has been quite successful, at least as seen in the cryptocurrency accounts:

BTC $45k https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qrf2uj202f60uver3r9uyf7kypwaan50mtfyehl

ETH $70k https://ethplorer.io/address/0x00b9d7fe4a2d3acdd4102cfb55b98d193b94c0fa

And note that for BTC donations they gave a new Bech32 address which is still unsupported by major cryptocurrency exchanges.

In case of ETH the balance actually includes "raw" ETH and a number of tokens (USDT, DAI) built on top of it.

Since ~2005 all EU countries have Electronic Signature legislation (1999/93/EC), later renewed as eIDAS (Regulation 910/2014).

It's 2021, companies are still scammed by fake PDF pretending to be an order by a German court, notable judiciary institution, sent with *no* digital signature at all, in a industry where these attacks are frequent 🤷

#security #phishing