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German here: We don't dislike eastern europeans at all, at least not on any society wide level. Of course, there are exceptions. We do dislike backslides into authoritarianism in governance, like in Hungary (who's Victor Orban declared 'illiberal democracy' [1]).

1: https://verfassungsblog.de/illiberal-democracy-beyond-hungar...

Well, tbh, I don't know the reason, I can only speculate. It is meant to encode pure binary data (cbor) and not to be human readable or URI or anything like that. It is specifically designed for QR Codes. I read through some Github issue [1] just now and as far as I can tell, it is more or less a design oversight, which might be remedied by a later version.

[1]: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/64

The EU's Digital Green Certificate [1] uses Base45, which I think they basically invented. They do this because "even in Byte mode a typical QR-code reader tries to interpret a byte sequence as a UTF-8 or ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoded text."[2] They use the 45 chars allowed by the alphanumeric-mode IIRC.

[1]: https://github.com/eu-digital-green-certificates/dgc-overvie...

[2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-base45/

Fulltext for people who blocked facebook:

I'm resigning from my job at Facebook.

For years, President Trump has enjoyed an exception to Facebook’s Community Standards; over and over he posts abhorrent, targeted messages that would get any other Facebook user suspended from the platform. He’s permitted to break the rules, since his political speech is “newsworthy.”

“when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie. Facebook will keep moving the goalposts every time Trump escalates, finding excuse after excuse not to act on increasingly dangerous rhetoric. Since Friday, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand and process the decision not to remove the racist, violent post Trump made Thursday night, but Facebook, complicit in the propagation of weaponized hatred, is on the wrong side of history.

I cannot keep excusing Facebook’s behavior. Facebook is providing a platform that enables politicians to radicalize individuals and glorify violence, and we are watching the United States succumb to the same kind of social media-fueled division that has gotten people killed in the Philippines, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. I’m scared for my country and I’m done trying to justify this.

My last day will be June 12th. If you have contacts in the San Francisco Bay Area looking to recruit a software engineer, please DM me.

#blacklivesmatter

Tom Lehrer is a national treasure.

Yeah, totally forgot about the second one. Thanks!

I have wondered for quite a while about this so maybe you can help. How does it spread without symptoms?

Like, I get that you start shedding the virus, but if you don't cough or sneeze and practice generally good hygene it should not spread, right?

They do: https://foldingathome.org/alternative-downloads/

> "so many journalists don't understand that a single article published in a journal does not mean that there is now a scientific consensus around this"

I respectfully disagree that journalists don't understand that. They do, they are just incentivized to fill their websites/shows with grabbing headlines to get more ad revenue. It's mainly an incentive problem, not an understanding problem.

> The most recent Samsung S series they support is from 2014, almost six years ago.

You know, maybe I was lucky or hit some weird Window, but they used to have S7 Lineage OS on there and I still run it on mine.

Tutanota is also pretty good. Protonmail was also pretty great. (I used them both, currently at Tutanota)

If you care for an in-depth back and forth between the IARC and the ESFA, I can recommend this[1] collection of letters between the head of the ESFA and the head of the IARC at the time. If you are interested in the particular scientific criticisms of the IARC Monograph by the ESFA you can read this amazing letter[2], which is also in the collection mentioned above.

It's in the annex of that document. It's a very good read.

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[1]: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/160113

[2]: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EFSA_response_...

The information is not yet published, however Julia Reda (https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110514210176462850) is working on it. Also, I would suggest voting on a party-bases i.e. voting for Pirates in your region.