Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@4f5vpt84 @LibreBell Good guess! That's exactly where it was. From a few months ago when I went to Prague for HCPP.

@Danielabrozzoni I really need to give a talk wearing those earmuffs.

@MindMining@bitcoinhackers.org ...and the simple fact of the matter is that surgical masks and cloth masks just don't filter out more than 10% to 50% of the very small particles that we currently believe spread COVID-19. Animal studies with much higher filtration %'s still found that a signnificant % of animals got infected. So it's likely that the filtration just isn't good enough to help much in the real world.

@orionwl @waxwing @mattodell @nvk I wouldn't be surprised if the Mastodon devs actually think E2E encryption on chats would be a negative. Mastodon is designed around a community model, with moderation, in a context of being worried about abuse and toxic behavior. If that's your design goal, is E2E encryption on DM's actually a feature you want? _I_ would say yes. But I can imagine those devs saying no.

Censorship must be everyones' new years resolution:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3116553/chinese-communist-party-introduces-new-rules-what-members-can

"Chinese Communist Party introduces new rules on what members can say as it ‘boosts internal democracy’"

"The revised rule book says cadres can make complaints about their superiors but are prohibited from airing them in public"

"They are also banned from expressing opinions that are ‘not consistent’ with the decisions of the central leadership"

Somehow I think the emphasis is on "internal" and not "democracy"...

@dielan @crunklord420 Ah, yeah, that's fine modulo theoretical "illegal data" legal risks. Mastodon has that anyway inherently due to how it works. As do tons of protocols.... Hell, think about "illegal data" in the Certificate Transparency logs. :P

Turns out that masks may increase your risk of infection too!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-face-masks-increase-risk-infection-doctor-jenny-harries-a9396811.html

'Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer, said the masks could “actually trap the virus” and cause the person wearing it to breathe it in.

'For the average member of the public walking down a street, it is not a good idea” to wear a face mask in the hope of preventing infection, she added.'

Oh wait, no that's from last March, obviously from a parallel universe...

@dielan @crunklord420 Not gonna lie: my first thought when you said "automatically import" was "how can I turn this into a security exploit"... :P

...so does it import the magic keyprase? Like : bitcoin : for ?

@solidsanek Someone needs to use those manly faces for some romance novels.

@alan8325 Not a very useful version of that idea, as the teeth overlap so you can't put a shell in between.

Versions without overlap actually get used in things like nuclear power plants to pass mechanical motion via isolation barriers.

In a prior job I worked on the design of the converse: a rotary transformer to transmit electrical power between two 100% mechanically isolated components.

@crunklord420 Heh, yeah, I get the feeling. Still, it's hard for them to avoid creating software that's useful for the rest of us. :P

+1 re: Pleroma. Gonna have to try it out some time.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484

Big peer reviewed study on how well lockdown "works" with damning results:

"The direction of the effect size in most scenarios point towards an increase in the case growth rate, though these estimates are only distinguishable from zero in Spain (consistent with non-beneficial effect of lockdowns). Only in Iran do the estimates consistently point in the direction of additional reduction in the growth rate, yet those effects are statistically indistinguishable from zero."

Interesting: Hacker News posters claiming that Whatsapp is censoring previews of https://signal.org

Not full censorship - you can still click the link. But rather suspicious to treat a competitor differently.

Facebook is also buying ads for "signal" to advertise Messenger.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25720423

@dannydiekroeger @jimmysong Thanks! That worked.

@jimmysong Is there a copy of your PGP key somewhere? Keyservers are kinda busted these days, so you have to manually upload to a keyserver, or provide it somewhere yourself.

Eg go here and click on "Submit Key": http://keys.gnupg.net/

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online Problem is humans are not the only carriers. Animals are too, and there's no way of eliminating that stuff in animals, or avoiding human/animal contact.