That is very interesting. Do you happen to know if Rockstar Games was onboard with this? Or would this be considered fair use, given the lack of competitive overlap between the supermarket and video game industries?
I do all world updates overnight for this very reason. But on my R5 3600, the longest emerge is, by far, qtwebengine, which takes just under 1.5 hours. Plus, Gentoo provides -bin versions of many packages notorious for protracted build times, such as Rust, Chromium, Firefox, etc...
I would imagine that automation plays a role. And maybe car manufacturers can exercise more control over assembly lines, and don't have to worry about unforeseen environmental factors. Of course, that is just a guess, I don't know enough about construction or car manufacturing to really say.
I have always used Pass [1], and while it is certainly less convenient, it doesn't really take too much extra effort to self host your passwords in a PGP encrypted git repo. Self hosting has drawbacks of its own, of course.
That this was the work of an otherwise uninvolved opportunist is always a possibility (it came to mind while considering that the document was from Feb 10, unmarked, and had been stapled), but I am almost certain it was not done for financial gain. Maybe I am naive, but I do not think news organizations pay their confidential sources very much for their trouble. So it just seems unlikely in this case.
I use qutebrowser[0] which is built on qtwebengine, which is based on Chromium but comes with the caveat that it will likely be blacklisted by Google since it does not follow upstream's release schedule. But it is trivial to get around this by setting the user agent to something not blacklisted.
Gmail [0] ignores dots in your email handle and so you could use a different pattern of dots for each website you register at and record it in a spreadsheet or something. The first and last characters cannot be dots, and I do not think you can have two or more dots in a row, but there is no limit to how many "legal" dots you can use. Not as elegant, but definitely doable.
I can't access the article to read it, but according to the USDC[0] page on the Coinbase website:
> "Each USDC is backed by one dollar or asset with equivalent fair value, which is held in accounts with US regulated financial institutions."
Is the part about being backed by USD or "asset[s] with equivalent fair value" the point of contention? Did they originally claim that each USDC was backed by USD (cash) only?
I am not sure if it is that simple, and I think companies have little choice but to be greedy, because if they choose not to be greedy, another greedier company is all but guaranteed to prevail. I suppose it could be argued that companies the size of Apple and Google are not bound by the same constraints as smaller companies. But if they choose to stop doing business in Pakistan, what would become of all of their existing customers? What about all the people who would be deprived of Apple and Google products/services?
You might be able to find some advice/inspiration on the r/DataHoarder subreddit [0]. They also have an IRC channel (#DataHoarder on freenode [1]). The IRC channel is a little more informal, but the subreddit has tons of great info and discussions on not just storing data, but also digitization and organizing/cataloguing data.