Sounds a lot like democratic centralism.

There was a published exchange between former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and former US President Bill Clinton from the 1990s, in which Chrétien made a strong arguments for Canada’s nominal sovereignty in terms of how it benefits the US position. For example, Canada can take the side of the US in international relations; a state or even multiple states cannot do that. The subordination of Canadian intelligence (CISA) to the US via Five and more Eyes is another example: the US can use CISA to provide legal cover for surveilling US citizens.

I can’t wait for Huawei and ZTE hardware to be made legal in the west again. Can’t hide behind “the Chinese have backdoors in that hardware” projection when the Chinese have taken advantage of the US’ backdoors.

I feel like I am missing context here. I don’t understand why clicking a phishing link leads to getting beaten by cops and charged with a made up offense.

As long as the violence rolls down the class pyramid it’s “peaceful.”

Precisely.

Without reading the article the headline and summary remind me of a sales meeting I was roped into at my previous employer.

The sales manager said sales to Chinese firms were very good in the moment, but that can change at any moment because the government is completely unpredictable. All I could do was laugh internally.

The cruelty is the point.

They must be a housewarming committee.

I’d still like to see all the never-released documents but those are long gone by now.

Didn’t Peggy say Pinochet did nothing wrong, when he was finally being tried for all his heinous crimes?

Isaac Asimov was born in the USSR. Although his parents moved the family to the US when he was just three, I am sure there was a lot of lingering anti-communism. He was also offered US government positions at the height of the post-war Red Scare.

The Russians don’t want us to do it.

The Russians are the eviliest of evil.

Therefore whatever the Russians don’t want must be good.

It doesn’t matter if it’s illegal as per our own laws.

It’s moral to ignore laws your enemy insists on following.

By that logic the US is also complicit in Nazi crimes.

I thought our previous lunch habit (avocado toast) was singlehandedly ruining our ability to buy homes, thus ruining the economy. I guess I must be able to afford a home now since I bring my lunch to work. Also if a business can’t make it in the market shouldn’t it just fail?

To astronomists and cosmologists they are, anything heavier than helium is a metal.

It’s always the worst ones who live the longest.

I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.

Art of the deal

The Android private DNS setting is just for a DNS-over-TLS resolver. The only thing about it that’s private is your queries are encrypted en route to the server (traditonal DNS is cleartext). There’s no filtering or blocking.

Some Android versions also have a hard coded DNS server set to Google, which based on my tinkering uses DNS-over-HTTPS. Not only is it annoying but I find it awfully insecure - even if you think you have stuff locked down it might just not be. I fixed that issue by blocking all DNS-over-HTTPS servers in my router, and also have all outgoing requests to port 53 redirected to my local resolvers (Pihole + Unbound).