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by teddyh 1y ago
Empowering individuals to solve collective problems rarely work. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178680 > The appropriate solution is legislation.
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by teddyh 1y ago
This comes to mind: < https://x.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1951252793827729739 >
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by teddyh 1y ago
What, “All is fair in love and war”? Tear down all laws in pursuit of the devil? I prefer “That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.”
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by teddyh 1y ago
Here’s an anti-slop filter, applicable to all AI text: sed -e d
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by teddyh 1y ago
I prefer: < https://lawrencehook.com/rys/ >
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by teddyh 1y ago
What I read is just a thinly-veiled “Make shunning socially acceptable and mainstream again!”
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by teddyh 1y ago
Zero-trust networking.
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by teddyh 1y ago
It’s the third option: Port knocking is stupid. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898061 >
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by teddyh 1y ago
> they will randomly sample some percent of precincts for a detailed hand-audit count. This places a lot of trust in that “random” selection.
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by teddyh 1y ago
He’s probabaly just salty that his commercial Emacs clone for Unix (with its terrible not-quite-Lisp extension language) never took off.
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by teddyh 1y ago
As mentioned in the video, there is no amount of “testing” which could prove the absence of malicious software or hardware. None.
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by teddyh 1y ago
If your proposed process is implemented, it will take about 5 seconds before the precinct realizes that they can just feed it all to the machine and sign whatever number which comes out as the “hand-counted” one. Especially as they will be
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by teddyh 1y ago
Do you have a link to the original? This is the earliest version I have found: < https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Placed 56 and 41, respectively, on the Democracy Index.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Feel free to add the code to use something else by default on Windows: < https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/p... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Only the deployed hardware matters. Or only the person reading the result of the machine matters. Or only the USB key which is transferring the results matters. Or… Once you start with non-transparent mechanisms, there is no end to it.
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by teddyh 1y ago
User name checks out.
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by teddyh 1y ago
No. Public trust demands no software or programmable hardware in the election process. • Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI > • Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
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by teddyh 1y ago
“Tyrrany”?
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by teddyh 1y ago
Why not instead blame Windows for not having the standard tools “grep” and “find”?
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by teddyh 1y ago
Off-Topic: I surprised myself by liking the web site design. Especially the font.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> If someone decides that a particular service is neat to host on rented servers I won’t fault them for it. Neither will I. It is an endeavor worthy of praise. > And I consider things that you manage on your own to be self-hosted
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by teddyh 1y ago
What you describe is an unfortunate result of the terrible bandwith situation at your (and others’) location. It is not, however, a compelling argument to redefine a term to suit your liking. (Also, with 4G, 5G, and satellite-based Interne
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by teddyh 1y ago
This is a common, but disingenuous, objection. People also don’t make their own electricity. Is therefore “self-host” an unreachable goal, which nobody can fulfill in practice? No, this would be a useless definition.
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by teddyh 1y ago
The meaning has only “wandered” due to the marketing of dishonest hosting companies, and their partially self-deluded customers who want to believe the marketing in order to avoid doing the hard work of actually self-hosting.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I have seen the term “data sovereignty” used occasionally.
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by teddyh 1y ago
It would be good if there was a nice, simple, positive word for it; people might not feel the need to appropriate “self-host” otherwise. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> [Paraphrased] Words mean different things to different people! Anyone can choose any definition they want! No, words have quite definite meanings. Otherwise, they are not an aid to communication.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I deplore this weakening and dilution of the term “self-hosting”. In my opinion, if your services had downtime today, you are not “self-hosting”. If you depend on anything which has “cloud” in its name, you are not “self-hosting”. If you
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by teddyh 1y ago
“We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.”

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