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He is just extremely into Juche? A self-sufficient country with multiple supply chains feeding into each other? WRONG! Every cooperative will manufacture every product from bottom to top with nothing shared between products.

Presumably why it has raw LaTeX-style subscripting like tau_i but isn't actually rendering it. When you ask an LLM to regurgitate academic-sounding math it's gonna reproduce patterns from both unicode rendetings and source LaTeX.

It is self-hosting. But use your own servers for anything critical for privacy. Any VPS provider could snoop if they wanted to.

Republicans already set this precedent decades ago. Democrats retconned the power of the parliamentarian.

"Next time around, there's no going back now"

Republicans have repeatedly overruled or fired the parliamentarian for years and years. Democrats later tried to pretend they were an absolute roadblock for campaign promises.

They will "go back" immediately.

To be safe you could make a user account just for pirated games. This would make it so that any games running on the compatibility layer wouldn't be able to do anything particularly malicious. I think the overall risk is already low but a separate user would make it basically nonexistent.

Security and privacy benefits from building threat models. It is good to understand how trackable you are on the internet and walking around with your phone.

Do you need to think about how trackable your phone is if you are driving to and from the grocery store? At most you are providing information that the interested parties already have (where you live, where you shop, and when you shop). If you ran into some trouble it could be useful to have not had a tracking device in your pocket, but otherwise little to worry about.

On the other hand if you are taking part in a sensitive action, then yes you need to leave your phone at home or turned off and in a Faraday bag. If it is particularly sensitive then you need to make sure everyone involved does that. Having a tracking device that shows you were at the location at that time is very bad for you and your compatriots. If you need to communicate on-site, use walkie talkies and speak in code. And plan your action around not having comms. This will make your action better planned out in the first place, which is also important for security.

A threat model makes all the difference.

You need to buy more storage to archive Blu-Rays

RETVRN to alphaproteobacteria

Get involved in organizing. Even just little bits. Even just a reading group.

Qihoo is just a typical tech company with a "security" focus. It having a VPN is like Norton having a VPN - like Norton VPN.

Using a shell company is likely just a way to avoid sanctions.

A Chinese app talking to Chinese servers is no more alarming than a Swedish app talking to Swedish servers or an American app talking to American servers. Imagine writing a breathless "report" about how searching the App Store phones home to the United States. You know, to search for and download apps.

So basically the Tech Transparency Project is just doing some nationalist orientalism.

From their website: "TTP is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that uses research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life."

Their director: "Katie Paul, TTP’s Director, specializes in tracking criminal activity on online platforms such as Facebook. She also serves as co-director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project and a founding member of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO)."

They are somewhat opaque about their funding. They claim to not accept corporate funding but every funder they list is just a middleman NGO for corporate/billionaire funding.

So, a typical NGO run by a cop.

Tech companies are generally terrible and tied to financialized nonsense, but there is nothing out of the ordinary here. The outrage is premised entirely on xenophobia.

If you don't count oip and spices, then any kind of dal. Dal, onion, ginger garlic paste, chili, tomato. Then add your spices, which can be as simple as garam masala, turneric, and red chili powder. Salt after it's cooked. Aside from the onion everything can come from the pantry or freezer. Technically you could blend and freeze the onion to make life even easier.

I know I'm pushing it but this is basically the easiest meal ever and it's just one pot. You only need to dirty a cutting board, knife, and spoon. It's nearly a pantry meal and requires no thought or special technique aside from knowing when onions are caramelized but not burned. And it's vegan, gluten free, and very inexpensive.