It's pretty much out in the open at this point that WhatsApp is being actively monitored by gov't agencies in the US, and Signal was largely funded/started by the CIA.

Nothing you do is really safe. Them attacking or discrediting these apps is just a smokescreen to help provide them with legitimacy.

....Britain has always been famously dry otherwise.

The arid plains of Cornwall stretch up into the steppes of Mercia and the barrens of Northumbria, and the sweltering City of London is a jewel set amidst the stark, toppling dunes of Surrey and Kent. Sure, you can find an occasional oasis along the old Roman roads, for example the large one near Chester, on Watling street, but they are also common hunting ground for the nomadic tribes of camel-mounted Scots sweeping down from the Scotian Maghreb.

Britons famously invented a garment to catch precious moisture, called Stilsuits, which they wear to cross the most desolate of areas, where great Sandworms are always a danger.

I have a Vortex86SX (advertised as 486SX compatible) and a Vortex86DX, the latter I don't know what instructions it supports but it runs Debian just fine. Might be fun to try and see how close this weird chip is to a 486SX and if I can resurrect one of my old WinXP licenses to quasi-legally run this obsolete OS.

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I took "have ways to disable" in a very different way, the old-school way. I believe one or more people, likely the site's lab managers, are tasked with destroying the equipment if an invasion is imminent. It will be very obvious when China invades Taiwan and it will take them hours to even bring material and forces onto the island.

If I were to do it. I'd have a lock box and trigger. Someone with a key goes to each machine and destroys it. Might take 2 minutes per piece of key equipment. An hour to do the whole lab? Less if you have multiple people.
Destruction is a solved problem. We've done hardware anti tampering and software self destruction in the industry for many years. If people are going to be extreme about it, then some minuscule incendiary charge or PETN wrapped around key components and cabling. But I wouldn't bother with the risk during normal factory operations.

I bet he pays retail for what he uses and gets wholesale for what he generates. I'm surprised ./ers think this is a good deal, regardless of the time of day.

Agreed. This is a dumb canard.

Modern ICE cars are quite quiet (unless deliberately not) and the majority of their sound output is from tire noise, which would be the same for ev's.

Which, to be fair, is exactly the context and outcome of national promises about climate loudly proclaimed at every climate summit, too.

Irrelevant. He could draw minors in Photoshop all day long. We're talking about the most disgusting use of free expression here. And the DOJ is trying to criminalize it. I sincerely doubt it's going to fly given the broad, terrifying constitutional implications.

However, when it comes to distributing the materials to a minor, attempting to lure a minor, really everything relating to his actual contact and conduct with minors, dude ought to burn. But the creation and possession of artificial representations of imagined persons and situations? That simply cannot be criminalized in the United States of America. It is plainly, clearly, entirely protected conduct, regardless of how disgusting and terrible it is.

I feel California should consider using a portion of excess energy for water desalination and start working on being a more drought resistant state.

The original was a bit shit. Anything, even an inaccurate reading, is a massive improvement.

My neighbor once showed me a huge abrasion over his shoulder and chest from a car accident. Swore to me that he won't wear a damn seatbelt next time.

Sorry, but as I posted in the previous thread on this subject:

There are probably millions of women who "sound like Scarlett Johanssen".

She quite reasonably owns all rights to HER VOICE.
Not "every voice that's even slightly like hers".

(FWIW this will ultimately be the death of any sort of voice-actor IP fight vs AI that's coming because voices aren't THAT different. Impersonators are a thing, and any studio that doesn't want to pay $100k for Tom Hanks' voice can pay $1000 for a "Tom Hanks Impersonator's Voice" and that's the end of that.)

I like the actress but we need a teensy bit less fucking Cult of Personality in the West, thanks.