Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

In this study, 6% of cars passing #bikes came within 1m of the biker. That feels like narrowly avoiding sudden death. "Can people imagine what life would be like if 6% of all the people they saw on a day-to-day basis unexpectedly threatened their lives?"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/04/16/painted-white-lines-are-not-cyclist-protecting-forcefields-agree-experts/

car traffic on the streets has increased about 4 times since I was a kid, and I see everyday how my kids are harmed by this. My parents didn't even think about me crossing the street, I just did it starting around age 6. Now we have to teach our kids a lot to cross even the street we live on. Things can be better https://theconversation.com/how-cities-of-the-future-could-see-cars-parked-for-good-21138

I've been thinking about the #city as a #desert, it is mostly devoit of plant/animal/insect/etc life, often even when there is exposed dirt. I've been working on bringing life back to a few tree pits around where I live, and it is not so easy. It was then fascinating to see this on a massive scale in this documentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI

#DDoS targeted #Amazon S3 specific bucket domain names, e.g. mycloudydata.s3.amazonaws.com, that could be used as leverage to get Amazon to keep the bucketless domain name s3.amazonaws.com
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/22/aws_dns_ddos/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/28/amazon_ddos_attack/

Good to see some media pointing out that just because #Trump supports an idea does not make it automatically wrong. The US Intelligence establishment is pushing that belief as an means to rehabilitate their image after missing 9/11, making up #Iraq #WMD, waterboarding, #Snowden leaks, losing control of the #Vault7 exploits , etc.
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-deep-state/

When the US stops #EndlessWar in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, it can pay for #MedicareForAll without even raising taxes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/17/opinion/medicare-for-all-funding-military.html

great to see #security reviews also include key factors like "organizational transparency", #Mozilla #Firefox deserves the credit here https://www.zdnet.com/article/germanys-cyber-security-agency-recommends-firefox-as-most-secure-browser/

#BillGates gets so much "feel good" press these days because he has a foundation, but he's still up to his old tricks of profits above all else https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/16/republic-services-strike-bill-gates-sanitation

#fastlane collects tracking data and sends it to their server, it is also opt-out so it is enabled by default https://docs.fastlane.tools/#metrics
they hashed the Application ID so it must be private! ;-) except the Application ID space is small enough to just generate all possible Application ID, then have a lookup table.

"20 companies responsible for 35% of world CO2 output since 1965" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
Meanwhile, the Scotland and Norway are using their expertise in setting up offshore platforms to make gianormous, 100m tall, floating windmills that can power 20,000 homes (30MW).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlfvXaISvc

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed"