Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I said it many times before and I will keep saying it:

No matter how dystopian the world feels, the most dangerous threat to privacy is giving up.

If you just give up and cooperate, because it's easier than fighting to opt-out, you have lost the battle without even a fight.

Privacy is only dead if we let it die.
Privacy is a human right.
Don't let it die.

#Privacy

The former head of MI6 has said Europe is no longer in a "pre-war situation" with russia, but "an actual war".

Sir Richard Dearlove said it is time "to face up to the fact" that russia thinks it is in a state of war with the whole of the continent, and has already carried out "very aggressive moves" on certain European countries.

https://news.sky.com/story/europe-is-in-actual-war-with-russia-says-former-mi6-chief-13262129

Can’t help but think there might be a relationship between people complaining about paywalls and newspapers being bought by billionaires. We should be willing to pay for news because that’s how journalists get paid.

On the other hand, I'm 100% against paywalls in scientific journals. Research is almost entirely publicly funded, and scientists do all the work (have ideas, get money, research, write, review). Plus, we pay publication charges. All scientific journal articles should be open access.

🇰🇷💥 The South Korean military has used T-80U gas turbine tanks as targets for new attack drones. BMP-3 have also been used for these purposes, - Militarnyi

❗️It is known that at one time Russia supplied South Korea with 43 T-80U tanks, 67 tracked BMP-3s, and 20 BTR-80s.

I’m not pirating movies, I’m just training my model.

Arriving In The Darkness

Photography of the textures on the ceiling and the light on the tracks as a train arrives at King's Cross St Pancras London Underground Station.

Note: Taken safely behind the yellow line with a zoom lens

#london #photography

London Trip Day 2! #photography #mirrorless #london

#Coca-Cola products are still available in Russian supermarkets, with profits now going to its #London-based subsidiary, Coca-Cola HBC, according to Bloomberg.

When HBC stopped producing Coke due to the full-scale war, Coca-Cola HBC's contractor Multon introduced Dobra Kola, now Russia's most popular soda with a 13% market share.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/coke-pepsi-pledged-to-quit-russia-over-ukraine-but-are-still-there?srnd=economics-v2

A map of Europe drawn from memory...

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The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

Klau, kā šo nodot tiem, kuri ielīp bsky - LSM un citiem?

"For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
...
#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more."

https://mastodon.social/@mho@social.heise.de/113464109144647989

Potentially unpopular take:

Attribution is a distraction.

Most orgs are not mature enough for attribution to actually differentiate response (just like honeypots).

Layer 8 is obsessed with attribution -- perhaps to make things more dramatic / urgent? -- so it persists.

So such things get chased, to the detriment of the basics.

These are NE executables. So windows 3.x.

Those... shouldn't be loading. Unless they're 32bit, somehow... is win32s being invoked here? and somehow working? on a 64bit OS?

did they embed a 16bit x86 emulator into their program? (no)

I wrote this 20 years ago.

20 YEARS AGO.

Change the names and it’s the exact same today.

I feel like walking into the ocean.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/debunking-centrism/