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.

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.

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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