Not really. Certainly some “encryption” algorithms or really implementations have backdoors, but RSA for example doesn’t. Encryption is only worthwhile if it’s mathematically sound, and you can’t backdoor mathematics without some random undergrad working on their maths degree figuring out for fun.

Open source doesn’t mean free by default.

China’s not even slightly evil though. It’s suffered from bureaucracy in responding to evil, sure, but that’s going to happen to all groups of beings above a certain number for all time.

What country are you from?

We don’t get glasses in the US, we get barely laminated paper cups, or plastic cups in the rare occasion the restaurant doesn’t have a disposable plastic mandate. The mouths of said cups are far too wide to reasonably drink out of without straws, and without the lid the cups are far too structurally unstable to drink out of without at least some spillage or awkward handling.

They’re designed for straw based drinking, and changing that would require an entirely different vessel.

Because the latter isn’t going to happen until someone does a lot of [REDACTED], and paper straws are fucking awful so while the world burns and the turtles are boiled alive, many may want to drink from a disposable straw that doesn’t melt in your mouth.

Yes. Or rather why is everyone working such ridiculously long hours when everyone could work less than ten a week and still produce enough for everyone to have more than enough to thrive?

Is reactionaries the next word to get enlibbified now?

The hackers were able to listen to phone calls and read text messages, reportedly exploiting the system U.S. authorities use to wiretap Americans in criminal cases.

Oh no, the predictable consequences of violating privacy. Anyway don’t let me get in the way of any China bad posting from this

As someone that had to cheat to pass my required biology courses, I can only understand this as the brain is just a series of tubes, and you can’t just dump whatever you want on it, because you’ll need to unclog it.

Kindle paper works well, since you can just sync books into it with calibre or other software. They’re also amazingly tough to break in my experience.

Your comment history is a breathtaking exercise in pure unadulterated racism. Bravo, usually one only finds people like you on truth social or rumble.

You just lost a layup election against a WWE star. Maybe you people shouldn’t be so arrogant and maybe start learning for the first time in your lives.