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Possibly for accessibility features for the blind?
by covidthrow 6y ago
Possibly for accessibility features for the blind?
- chaganated 6y agoBraille is simpler, and does not require thousands of lines of code, which could obscure all sorts of malicious payload. I have a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks Dominion has actually audited any of these external dependencies.
- CydeWeys 6y agoBraille is also, famously, very expensive as a computer interface relative to audio (e.g. https://www.boundlessat.com/Blindness/Braille-Displays/Brailliant https://www.boundlessat.com/Blindness/Braille-Displays/Brail... ), plus not as many people can use it as can use audio.
- chaganated 6y agoWhy must everything involve the computer? It was on paper when I was a kid, didn't require an army of six-figure salaries, and things seemed to go far more smoothly.
- CydeWeys 6y agoAnd it's still on paper, just now with some electronic augmentation that makes vote counting instant and lowers the error rate. Do you not remember how problematic the purely paper voting systems were? How many errors were made in the voting and the counts and how long it took to get the final results in close elections? Florida 2000 is a famous, widely-known example. The computers are clearly better.
- chaganated 6y agoSo, the people who can't get hole-punching and ballot layout right are going to "fix" things with two programming languages, three databases, and a dozen or so support libraries? Also, Florida 2000 is a strange example, considering the present drama. We've only gone from a simple controversy to a more complex one. Per Bruce Schneier: > If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems, and you don't understand the technology.