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by crote 9mo ago
You're forgetting about private pension funds. Those are massive , and often mandated by a collective bargaining agreement.
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by crote 9mo ago
... and how do you, the voter, prove that the machine you are using to vote is indeed running the audited source code?
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by crote 9mo ago
> But by that standard, in a world where someone can bring their phone or AI glasses into the voting booth to record the whole voting process That's why some countries have outlawed that.
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by crote 9mo ago
Election security should not hinge on a "trust me bro" - especially when people are being convinced the other way by Russian propaganda talking heads on social media. Manual counting requires zero trust. In my country anyone is we
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by crote 9mo ago
> If the system is transparent enough and provides mechanisms for verification and control That "if" is doing an awful lot of work here! You can literally explain paper voting to children - it was part of my mandatory Civics
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by crote 9mo ago
Which country doesn't count spoiled or blank votes? And the whole "cancel the election and find new candidates" is pretty pointless when anyone can start a political party of their own and participate in the election.
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by crote 9mo ago
The problem is that disappearing ink is a thing, and someone could swap out the source of ink (pen, stamp pad) in the voting booth. Erasing is indeed a possibility with pencil markings, but this can only happen during the counting process -
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by crote 9mo ago
> People living with parents suffering from dementia could fill out their ballots without them knowing and vote multiple times. Or more subtle: watching them vote, with the implicit threat of violence if they vote the "wrong" w
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by crote 9mo ago
It's the same on the sender side. Most people of course just outsource it to some SaaS like Sendgrid, and of course have some fancy microservice event bus architecture to get it there. That 'your login email has been sent' a
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by crote 9mo ago
> Their biggest incentive is customer satisfaction At a bank ? No way. They are some of the most customer-hostile organizations I've interacted with. Dealing with payment accounts is a necessary evil for them, and they are very muc
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by crote 10mo ago
You're misquoting me. That was in the context of a hostile government , not guns in general for civilian-against-civilian "self-defense". Also, the "at best" and mild" are quite important there. I believe that
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by crote 10mo ago
> It still says AD in big blue letters on the new version. Not really a big deal from my point of view. Sure, but it'll be small next letters after this. Then small grey letters. Then small grey letters on the details page. Then sma
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by crote 10mo ago
In other words: it's how passwords work on websites . Because it's usually good enough, as the only thing you are protecting is access to the server on the other side, and the pipe to that is already encrypted with TLS. But this
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by crote 10mo ago
This happens all. the. time. For example, at any duel between Ajax and Feyenoord the away fans have been banned - since 2009 . The Den Haag municipality banned away fans at ADO Den Haag - Ajax games for over 10 years. NAC - Willen II didn&
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by crote 10mo ago
Probably best to just ban all manufacturing. Drills, files, lathes? All illegal now, unless they have magic gun-shape-detecting AI.
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by crote 10mo ago
There's a huge spectrum between "nobody should ever own any gun" and "your local corner store should have an 'assault rifle and two sixpacks of beer' combo special". I completely your point, but unless y
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by crote 10mo ago
What is the "nasty surprise" of Zen 4 AVX512? Sure, it's not quite the twice as fast you might initially assume, but (unlike Intel's downclocking) it's still a strict upgrade over AVX2, is it not?
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by crote 10mo ago
Not true. There are lots of authentication schemes where the plaintext password is never communicated. This becomes rather crucial when the client doesn't know for sure yet what the identity of the other side is. See for example wifi e
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by crote 10mo ago
That's like saying "There is no requirement that the user doesn't tell their password to other people - all that matters is that the user remembers it". The "additional constraint" is the entire point . You
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by crote 10mo ago
Ah, of course! I did initially consider DH as example, but discounted it because of the need for the server to store the plaintext password - the fact that you can just hash it first completely slipped my mind. I completely agree about phis
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by crote 10mo ago
I remain very skeptical of fingerprints. They are both too mutable (cuts and burns will alter them) and not mutable enough (you can't re-roll your fingerprints after a leak). On top of that, you are also literally leaving them on every
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by crote 10mo ago
Are there any mainstream websites which only allow a single TOTP token to be enrolled? I can't remember having ever run into that issue. I do recall it occasionally being an issue with Passkeys, though. The non-disclosure is indeed nea
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by crote 10mo ago
Of course, but in most applications the use of a password is a given, so in day-to-day use "2FA" had come to mean "the other auth method, besides your password". Combine that with the practical problems with biometrics
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by crote 10mo ago
You are supposed to store the password in a Secure Enclave, which you can only query for the current token value. You are also supposed to immediately destroy the QR code after importing it. As I already mentioned, the fact that people
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by crote 10mo ago
What makes this 2FA? It's "something you know, plus mental labor", which makes it a password. 2FA is "something you have" (or ".. you are", for biometrics): it is supposed to prove that you currently phy
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by crote 10mo ago
> Plus the low speed lines are less deadly since the total energy is proportional to velocity squared, and v is low. You're forgetting about the probability of a crash. The vast majority of train crashes is due to an impact with a
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by crote 10mo ago
You don't have to be smart to be wealthy. More often than not it's mainly a matter of being lucky or having the right connections.
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by crote 10mo ago
China also has LoongArch.
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by crote 10mo ago
> That's because paper used to print books isn't always white. Isn't it basically rule #1 of UX design to never use pure white / pure black?
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by crote 10mo ago
> I've never seen a book actually radiate its own light. Plenty of ebooks with built-in illumination, you know. > During the early days of CRTs, dark mode was the norm. Yes, because they were physically unable to do anything else

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