Cause they’re spineless

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Part of the joke is that it looks like a snapchat story, hence the photo

I am not aware of any benefits to it, and we cook food for a reason. Cooking kills pathogens of course, improves flavour in a lot of foods, and turns a lot of food into a form in which it can be enjoyed, eg pasta. I also don’t see how raw vegan forms the distinction between natural and unnatural when modern first world diets include imported food and even just modern mass agriculture is not really “natural”. I would say that modern mass farming is less “natural” than boiling something, a practice we have been doing since we discovered fire and which uses things that are all easily found in nature (materials for a fire, water).

You are of course free to eat however you want. But I have never understood the point of raw vegan and I think it would run counter to your goal of gaining, with no other benefit to make up for the loss.

That’s easy to say. Believe it or not, most humans have limited strength, and if someone can’t break glass it’s not because they’re not trying hard enough.

If you really want to break glass that’s designed to be tough to break you need strategy not brute strength. Try tapping the top two corners of the glass and then the middle of the bottom of the glass, in an upside down triangle. You may be able to collapse the glass that way. Obviously you need a hammer/similar and a strong enough swing, and that is likely not enough for glass that’s designed to withstand attempts at smashing. But the corners will be the weak points if you want to try.

Are you speaking from experience? Because from my own experience a lot of glass is brick-proof. Wouldn’t be the glass in the windows of your house but glass where anything behind is particularly valuable or high-risk yes.

I’ve been using Google Pixels with GrapheneOS ever since the first Pixel and never regretted it. Does mean you need to buy Google stuff but:

a. you can buy it second-hand

b. not any worse than Apple

If you really want to avoid giving big tech companies your money and don’t want to buy a Pixel second-hand for whatever reason, the FairPhone might appeal to you. You can install degoogled OSes on it too, so you’re not locked to stock Android.

Lack of growth does not mean death. That’s a capitalistic mindset. It’s entirely possible for a community to be sustainable based on the people it has and have no need to grow. Lemmy’s not trying to sell a product; there’s no need for it to grow. People can join if they want to, and people can leave if they want to.

In terms of actual future prospects, Lemmy seems fairly large to me, and regardless of whether its userbase is growing or shrinking, it would have to shrink by quite a lot to become “dead”. Especially as Reddit continues to enshittify, I imagine its userbase will only grow. Hard to find social medias of this nature otherwise; almost all other social media is based around following people, not communities, and also obviously most social media is much more commercialised, less anonymous, much less text-friendly, etc, so link aggregator/Reddit style social medias fill in a niche people want and people who want a social media in this niche will gravitate towards the one they see as the best social media for whatever reason. Maybe Reddit because it’s the biggest, maybe Lemmy because Reddit is shit and Lemmy is federated and open-source, maybe their niche alternative because they’re part of a specific niche community that uses different software, who knows.

I don’t celebrate my birthday and I don’t tell people my birthday unless it’s required for something.

…No, it’s a social media app.

If you’re referring to the title of the book, it’s called “Quotations from Mao Tse-tung”. “Little red book” is an English nickname and Chinese people don’t call it that, so the app name would not be a reference.

OP asked what’s the most incorrect way to eat a pizza. That’s the canonical method, authentic from Italy

I don’t do deniable encryption on my root drives, just on external drives, and store the headers on my (non-deniably encrypted) computers. But if you want to deniably encrypt your root drive, Arch Wiki has some info:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Encrypted_system_using_a_detached_LUKS_header

You would still ultimately need an unencrypted header somewhere in order to boot your computer, so if it’s your main daily computer you’d likely carry around the USB stick all day and therefore it wouldn’t work against a state adversary who would obtain the USB stick with your header when they arrest you, if it’s on your person.

Also, it’s much more plausible that an external drive is genuinely just random data with no encrypted contents than that the drive installed into a computer has no data. I do have some USB sticks etc with genuinely nothing on them because I wiped them with /dev/urandom at some point, and they’re lying around waiting for me to need an unused USB drive. The average person doesn’t have an “unused computer” with nothing on it, just random data on the drive. Especially if you are an activist/organiser, if the state finds your computer with just pure random data on it and no encryption header I think they will assume it is deniably encrypted.

Moreover as I know that it is no open to sign up how to get a RiseUP account?

Invite. Last time I checked, they weren’t allowing invites because of abuse.

Tbh if you don’t know anyone with an account you are almost definitely not the target demographic. If you need just email then there are plenty of more general privacy email providers that aren’t specifically for organisers, or you could self-host.

You can use a password manager so you don’t have to remember it. And enable 2FA, shouldn’t really be possible for some rando to get into it, only well-resourced and organised attackers.

I didn’t know they allowed you to search without JS before. If you’re at the point of disabling JS, presumably for security or privacy reasons, why not just use DDG which works perfectly well without JS?

Ah lol sure. It depends on what level of state repression you’re looking at. Regular cops will just not bother trying to decrypt a drive if they don’t have the password and you don’t freely give it up (you have the right to refuse to provide a password here, it’s under the same kind of principle as having the right to not incriminate yourself), but I’m sure military intelligence etc will go to the wrench technique. Also deniable encryption for anything particularly sensitive is good for the old wrench technique.

It’s off at the moment. I turn it off whenever I’m not using it for security reasons, and also just noise reasons so the fan doesn’t bother me. It boots relatively quickly so I’m unbothered.

I don’t want to say where I live for anonymity reasons, but I will note that it’s fairly standard for political dissidents to be raided by any government so it doesn’t actually particularly narrow down my location.

What’s the wrench technique?

It probably does work out for them because of how famous they are. I want to play a Nintendo game; I have the options of either emulating or buying a console. I would probably emulate so I don’t have to buy a whole new computer just to play Nintendo games. However if no emulators exist I’d be forced to buy a console. This wouldn’t work out for smaller companies who don’t have the kind of advertising and brand recognition of Nintendo, but I don’t think Nintendo has issues with people knowing about and wanting to play their games.

I encrypt all my drives. Me and the people I know get occasionally raided by the police. Plus I guess also provides protection for nosy civilians who get their hands on my devices. Unlike most security measures, there is hardly any downside to encrypting your drives—a minor performance hit, not noticeable on modern hardware, and having to type in a password upon boot, which you normally have to do anyway.

we refused pressure to deplatform both Palestinian student groups and Zionist student groups

Insane equivocation. One of those is a national and ethnic group; the other is a political movement whose pet project is currently on trial for genocide… “we refused pressure to deplatform both Jewish student groups and National Socialist student groups”