kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

веселая неделька началась. Ростелеком по клиентам рассылает запрет на использование публичных DNS. Ставлю зубочистку против литра односолодового - на этой неделе будет всплеск мошенства с фишингом. Коллеги из банков - удачи вам и всего доброго. Держитесь там...
#infosecurity #этаСтрана #DNS #RKN #Rostelecom

@CensorshipBureau A disease with 0% mortality but effectively sterilising an individual (genital warts-based cervical cancer, several other VDs) would have that effect.

Diseases which don't impact the parent but induce severe birth defects or spontaneous abortion would be others. Scarlet fever (leaves fetus deaf and/or blind) a case in point.

The observed case fatality rate of COVID-19 remains about 1.6%, and is probably the best comparison with historical diseases, as here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates

That's still relatively high, especially in modern times.

Note that infectious disease is not a static entity, that there is ongoing mutation (as with Delta and Lambda variants of SARS-COV-2), that characteristics can change, and that impacts other than death should be accounted for, including convalescence and recovery, long-term effects, overwhelming of health and support services, and economic impacts. (Covid's largest impacts remain secondary to the illness itself, through economic disruption even in the absence of specific government-mandated shutdowns. People don't like exposing themselves to serious or fatal illness, funny that.)

There's also the fact that the true death toll (and true case count) are far higher than official statistics. The Economist estimates 15.4m deaths to date (95% probability range: 9.5--18.5m), against 4.6 officially-reported deaths. That's 3.35 above the official statistics.

They also estimate total cases working backwards from deaths.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

@isagalaev @kravietz

Introducing USA hour format.

hh:ss:mm

#заброшенное
Крейсер Мурманск,Норвежское море

@kravietz Resistance to technological innovation goes back a ways.

See "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations (1937)"
https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/page/39

Berhnard J. Stern's student research assistant would talk of this work later. He went on to use concepts in his own writing. You may have heard of Isaac Asimov.

I've retyped the document in Markdown, available for reading here:
https://rentry.co/szi3g

#BernhardJStern #ResistancesToTechnologicalInnovation #Technology #Luddism #IsaacAsimov

I'm a firm believer of Hanlon's Razor, but over a week, Facebook has flagged a post and a comment of mine, both about Mastodon (and including a link to joinmastodon.org)

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PeerMaps: Distributed, offline-friendly alternative to commercial map providers such as google maps. Instead of fetching data from a centralized tile service, your computer fetches map data from other peers across the network.

https://peermaps.org

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499190

#p2p #osm #maps

Regardless of what is returned in the DNS response, what all ISPs in #Italy (at least those included in this study) appear to have in common is the lack of transparency of the fact that access to www.gutenberg.org is intentionally blocked.

Internet users just see an error message.

#italy #censorship #ooni #oonidata #opendata #oonireport

Just now on HN:

"FB censored me for mentioning open source social network #Mastodon "

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10285-facebook-censored-me-for-mentioning-open-source-social-network-mastodon

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493823

This is what I have to deal with over on that site

https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1436422678936801280