kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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2018:
РФ: начинает "блокировать" Telegram
4PDA: подлизывает, удаляя сообщения о проксях и средствах обхода блокировок
2021:
РФ: при помощи МатчТВ блокирует 4PDA, подав иск не напрямую к сервису, а к CloudFlare (что? да!)
К – Карма
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RT @offlinemark@twitter.com
Here's my favorite git feature that no one knows about:
You can reference commits using the commit message instead of the hash. The ":/" syntax accepts a regex that matches any part of the commit message, returning the youngest matching commit.
https://git-scm.com/docs/revisions/2.29.0#Documentation/revisions.txt-emlttextgtemegemfixnastybugem
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/offlinemark/status/1387833240321417222
I was thinking it's a joke but it's actually published law now in Russia - list of "unfriendly countries", and the title is longer than the actual list, which only contains TWO countries - USA, and... Czechia.
http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202105140026?index=1&rangeSize=1
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This might convince some guys to get vaccinated. Sure, you might be a tough guy who doesn't worry about dying from COVID, but if the penis stops working, then shit just got real!
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as we talk about the morality of vaccine patents
i think it is a nice time to also remember historical precident
jonas salk did not patent the polio vaccine. he went out of his way to make sure it was not patented.
he never got rich. he actively made sure he didn't get rich off of it.
but that history is full of stories about how for the rest of his life, jonas salk did not have to ever pay for a beer in any bar in this country. he would get on airplanes and once somebody recognized his name, the entire damn plane would stand up and clap for him. he constantly had hotel rooms comped, meals for free at restaurants, thus and so.
because he was surrounded by people who knew he had saved their children from having to ever consider the fear of an iron lung, and were overwhelmingly grateful for it.
he was always modest and demure when recognized thusly. but i think that when people start saying "well why else would someone make a vaccine, if not to get paid for it and hold the patent", i think it is good to remember these stories. the world did not punish jonas salk for not patenting the polio vaccine. the world loved him for it. maybe not in the structures that billionaires are most used to. but they did love him for it, in small ways, in humble ways, on the individual level.
Now I recalled that question and made a quick fact check.
The basin area of river Nalchik (that's where we were camping) is 440 km2. An average flow in the river is 2.7 m3/s. An average rainfall in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic is ~200 mm. All that is public data published by Rosgidromet.
Now if we take that 200 mm of rain per year on area of 440 km2, it makes roughtly 1.1e8 m3 of water. The water then flows for a year (365*24*3600 s) which makes... 2.7 m3/s.
We were once sitting in the mountains in Russia and my colleague raised an interesting question - where does all the water in the underground rivers we investigated come from?
I thought all the water in rivers ultimately comes from rain - that's at least what I remembered from geography lessons decades ago. My friend argued rain wouldn't be enough...
When someone tells you that the 80's protests in communist Poland were inspired by the US, pro-capitalist or any other similar bullshit, just have a look at this 1980 list of 21 Interfactory Strike Committee postulates.
If you consider buying a an air ionizer or ozone generator or any other miraculous anti-COVID-19 air purifier, be sure to read this (just the first few pages are sufficient).
Note the lawsuit explicitly mentions HEPA filters and air filters with built-in UV lamps which *do* remove viral particles which are ~10x larger than HEPA pores.
They are mentioned because the vendor was actively pushing falsehoods about HEPA to boost his sales.
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"Exploiting custom protocol handlers for cross-browser tracking in Tor, Safari, Chrome and Firefox"
The Rhisotope project involves the use of isotopes to save rhinos from poaching, which is once again on the rise in South Africa. Scientists believe that introducing the isotope into the horn will make its transportation impossible. 👍
They have a point 🇮🇱 🇵🇸
First ‘Queers For Palestine,’ Then ‘Soviet POWs For Auschwitz’
http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/first-queers-for-palestine-then-soviet-pows-for-auschwitz/
No, this video doesn’t show a woman filling bags with gas because of the pipeline disruption (it's from 2019)
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One thing that occurs to me playing with email encryption is is that PGP key servers are really not designed to federate,
Michah Lee's writeup on this issue is illuminating:
https://code.firstlook.media/the-death-of-sks-pgp-keyservers-and-how-first-look-media-is-handling-it
I see two practical solutions:
1. AutoCrypt/p3p are "Good Enough" for most situations and we just accept it.
This isn't as crazy as it sounds. In fact I think this would be the best way forward. The other approach would be more complex but doable.
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Is there any way out of this madness?
The problem is that any sector that gets successful in exports is immediately weaponized by Kremlin, either for bullying other countries (Gazprom, Rosatom) or simply for racket (Nginx).
If that goes away, and I think it's entirely doable in a year or so, Russia has plenty of things to be proud of - Rosatom, Gazprom, massive and highly competitive IT industry, new prospective hydrogen energy projects and many more.
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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