Etam @etam@im-in.space

Petition to #Linksys to better support #openwrt on their WRT routers: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2397#issuecomment-694768736

Did I buy WRT1200AC some time ago hoping for a good router with #OpenWrt support? Yes.

Was I frustrated by problems caused by unstable wi-fi driver? Yes :(

Did I just buy the #Turris Omnia router (https://www.turris.cz/en/omnia/)? Yes.

Is it a bit expensive? Yes :/

Does it have Atheros wi-fi chips, that have the best Linux drivers? Yes!

Does it come with OpenWrt based firmware preinstalled? F*ck YES!!! :D

"Trump, QAnon and The Return of Magic" by Kirby Ferguson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca2DSsuE7jI
Nice summary about *why* conspiracy theories are rising so fast recently.

Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html

https://www.euromomo.eu/ just launched a new website.

My relative started to get into notion that COVID-19 is nothing more than a typical flu and that the panic is caused by measuring a thing, that wasn't measured so well before. So I started to look for data on mortality that is independent from death cause.
EUROMOMO has a delay of 3 weeks in getting full data, but it already shows a big unusual spike compared to previous years.

#COVID19

TIL: If you have full-disk encryption with a key embedded in initrd (https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Encrypted_root_file_system#Avoiding_to_type_the_passphrase_twice) you can easily use kexec (https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/tuning/html/book.sle.tuning/cha-tuning-kexec.html#cha-tuning-kexec-basic-usage) for fast and passwordless reboots.
#opensuse #linux

https://dx.doi.org/10.1128%2FCMR.00023-07

Scientific paper from 2007 that says:

"The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb."

#COVID #COVID19

I'm both pleased and annoyed by https://www.podatki.gov.pl/wykaz-podatnikow-vat-wyszukiwarka
It's for checking if NIP (tax id number) and NRB (bank account number) are registered.

Annoyed: yesterday it was giving me http 500 error.
Pleased: you can download a "flat file". A 7z packed json, that contains a list of `sha512(current date || NIP || NRB)`. I could use it with #bash and some basic commands.
Annoyed:
- There's some weird shit going on with NRB masking.
- sha512 is not secure enough, so you must put it through 5000 rounds.

etam@laptop:/home$ cd ..
cd: Permission denied: stay at home