we aren’t capable of maintaining that one for longer than a presidential term. much shakier ground than forcing the biblical apocalypse so all the evangelicals can finally go to heaven
we are so cooked as a people when a competent president comes in, it’ll be Obama all over again but worse, maybe 10 years before we get a snowden situation revealing all the secrets
GrapheneOS is okay for personal use but not for corporate use. If you’re smart you can absolutely run Headscale (worth noting that you cannot run a cloud instance of tailscale because the tunnel is coming from a foreign place, and once again do not do this if you’re representing a large business) and connect with your local LLM. this is both legal in China and smart to do in any country with any software, not just LLM stuff.
if you are in China temporarily on a business trip remember that most of the people being oppressed are people who are at risk of corruption on a mid to large scale, and remember that running your own private communications server like prosody or matrix through a headscale tunnel might raise eyebrows if you’re loudly recruiting in your region trying to get everyone to use it. as it turns out this is also true where i live, Lexington Kentucky, as police were skeptical about my obsession with privacy.
the reality is that the working class can currently afford tape drives and might not be able to in 3 years