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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.

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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.

I wonder if Americans will learn that they actually need to do something, something disruptive, with actual leverage, to actually threaten power. Writing letters does nothing but make the signers-on erroneously believe they've accomplished something. Maybe they'd be more likely to take action if they didn't sign the letter.

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.

The "political" mods of lemmy.world always call inconvenient facts, "misinformation". They're trying their best to reproduce the liberal fact-checker culture of around a decade ago where there were liberal nannies evaluating posts for left wing thought and helping to maintain their walled garden of mainstream propaganda. There still are such nannies, of course, but they're more openly reactionary now. This kind of person thinks that if Snoped wrote an article about it, that's all there is to it.

Selectively incurious and intellectually lazy, the real impetus behind this form of liberalism is a simple contradiction: their entire political philosophy is predicated on them being a good and correct and moral person with good and correct and moral views, totally unassailable, but their beliefs are incoherent and often disagree with reality and they spend very little time actually learning and understanding the topics they weigh in on. And they're used to contrasting themselves with more openly reactionary people that are even less likely to be in alignment with reality, which really makes them feel good and correct and moral. So when presented with left thought, i.e. fsr more coherent and informed opinions, they have a little crisis in their identity and lash out, looking for some way to shore up the opinion they hold after all of five minutes of research. Failing that they just act like a big baby.

Yeah Castro was forced by the US to be more friendly with the Soviet bloc due to trade (US embargo preceded the revolution being explicitly communist) and military threats and actions (if the US constantly threatens to attack you, the USSR might counterbalance). The revolution did have a substantial communist contingent in the cities and in leadership, so this was a natural consequence.

One of the first things done by the revolutionary government was to strike a deal for sugar exports, as the country, like many colonized countries, had a massively unbalanced economy that catered to colonist interests - at the time, cash crops, mobbed up casinos and sex trade, and limitations on industry. They originally made this offer to the US, but the US, as always, went as extreme as it could do pressure the newly sovereign government and refused and made threats. They then made basically the same deal with the USSR.

If you're a cowardly white supremacist, don't reply to this message.

Another banger from JDPON Don

The white supremacist's greatest fear is that they will be treated as harshly as they have treated others. So they must invent and imagine brutality to fear, justifying their subscription to continued ethnic cleansing against no-whites.

You need reeducation.