The replacement battery you bought in 2017 was the last of the genuine stock for that 2012 Thinkpad model. Now it’s only poor quality aftermarket. Maybe just stick with the existing genuine battery – its 47 second runtime should be enough time for AC loss to trigger a custom script to make it hibernate.

LoL, blue shirt has no persistence. Anger and giving up gets you nowhere.

Step one: don’t publish screenshots of your credentials on the web!

Never Use Text Pixelation To Redact Sensitive Information:

Let’s Enhance: A Deep Learning Approach to Extreme Deblurring of Text Images:

We can only hope Charles takes the opportunity that would avail itself:

https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor

Whittaker’s phrasing is ambiguous. Could be read as expressing one of a number of things:

• The paper/article is misleading and distracting from meaningful threats to privacy.
• That the original tweet is using misleading accusations to distract us from the article’s revelations of meaningful threats to privacy.
• That Appelbaum’s authorship of the research is an unwanted negative association which undermines the attention deserved by the threats documented in the paper which are misleadingly justified as necessary by eg. governments.

It’s difficult to know without a better understanding of Whittaker’s position on the various matters at hand, so I don’t know.

• Discourse
• Zulip

What ideally I’d like is some sort of good encrypted email […], which can achieve decent Android integration. Proton apps are pretty useless to that effect […]

Don’t need provider-specific apps if their services use standard protocols:

• IMAP: Fair Email or K-9 Mail(/Thunderbird)
• CalDAV: DAVx⁵

Anyone can now provide that service. Why pay OpenAI when you can pay a different service who is cheaper or provides a service more aligned with your needs or ethics or legal requirements?

• For incoming mail, on your server run a mail retrieval agent like fetchmail to fetch mail from the externally hosted mailbox into a maildir on your server.
• To serve that maildir to your clients, on your server run a mail delivery agent like the IMAP server Dovecot.
• To accept outgoing mail from your clients, on your server run something like Postfix with a relayhost configured with the details of your externally hosted SMTP server.

There’s nothing unusual or tricky about any of this arrangement.

(Please don’t do this. Pour the old oil into the empty container and return it to the store for responsible disposal, or municipal hazardous waste facility, or whatever scheme exists in your location)

sudo userdel -r project_tmp

LoL, they misconfigured their test rig and it turns out they were measuring loopback’s bandwidth.