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finnx··on Turkish citizens' personal data offered online after government site hacked
Turkey has an universal healthcare system, government has to have all that info anyways. You have option to hide specific items from your medical history so not even your doctors can see them. Every access to your records by your doctors are also logged and reported.
finnx··on Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
I don't think any competent army uses "the internet". You may think making Russian websites inaccessible will bring moral boost or justice served moment but it will certainly have a negative effect. This won't change number of casualties nor shorten any conflict in meaningful way.

This and some other sanctions that punish average Russians for just being Russians will put us into polarized world again and another cold war that will take ages to repair.

If average Russian can not connect to west, how can they keep their empathy towards west? If average western citizen can not connect to Russians, how can they keep their empathy towards Russians?

What we are seeing here is a competition. Competition to show who cares about Ukrainians most. Seriously how does blocking country from an adult website helps the situation? Is it any different than sending likes on a social media? How many likes to stop a tank?

I don't think I can blame people who participate in this competition, they want to do something. Promises we were given not kept.

finnx··on J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story
Both (IVM/HCQ) are not patented so there is no reason to depend or trust on multinational pharmaceutical companies.

You can access interactive meta analysis of 310 studies for HCQ[1] and 78 studies for ivermectin[2] below, it gets updated when new studies published. They also keep track of other treatments (in total 480[3]). But unfortunately only some of those treatments get media coverage like cannabidiol[4] even when they are neither the best performers nor best studied.

[1]: https://hcqmeta.com/ [2]: https://ivmmeta.com/ [3]: https://c19early.com/ [4]: https://c19early.com/cbdmeta.html

finnx··on GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers
One of those photographs you posted found[1] to be taken by personal photographer of Trudeau and most of them taken away from protesters.

This[2] is one example how protesters react when they try to infiltrate the actual crowd.

[1]: https://twitter.com/stobione/status/1489320295764660228

[2]: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1488325761572478981

finnx··on Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
> approximately 4 × 10−4 of all pixels would be lost over the course of a year. However, simply counting pixels affected by satellite streaks does not capture the entirety of the problem, for example resources that are required to identify satellite streaks and mask them out or the chance of missing a first detection of an object

It looks like the main problem is not the amount of data lost but amount of extra manual work this situation causes. I assume Starlink tracks and knows where their satellites are, so why don't they just provide data feed to trusted third parties who might be affected by their satellites? That way researchers could automatically classify these trails.

finnx··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
Yes, HTML5 Canvas. ctx.drawImage() ctx.fillText()
finnx··on Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
Dummy account didn't work for me. It just asks for a selfie verification after a day or so and images you find online, ml generated photos etc. gets rejected.