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1·9 days agoLooks good, I’ve added it to this post and the two pinned ones
For those unfamiliar, what is each frame referencing?
For people asking about alternative communities, we put together a list a while back when closing
!askmen@lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/post/48642221“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):
For questions that are more specific to your situation:
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30·12 days agoThere are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features
Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively
1·16 days agoIt might, but I think it might be a federation bug between our instances. I haven’t seen one like this before, but I’ll keep an eye out to see if it happens again / there’s a pattern.
You could also try setting yourself as a bot, saving, and then reversing it again. That might prompt your instance to send out the information again.
Oh sorry about that, it’s still showing up as a bot for me but it’s fine on your instance. I think the information just hasn’t federated over to lemmy.ca yet
Your account is marked as a bot by the way, you can fix that in your user settings
Also brick walls don’t really go through iterative changes, which is an important issue with tech debt.
If the wall works, then it works
A software project will work now, but may not hold up when you need to change something
I love it 😄
Did you extract those clips for this post, and do you have a recommended method for doing that? I sometimes find clips on getyarn, but the site barely loads half the time
I saw some at the store, but I need to go back and confirm that they are still there
They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on. It doesn’t affect the newsletters, but I find those to be too american-specific anyway
Well that’s disappointing, I loved how they were all facing the camera
Being able to bend backwards is genetic, and at the extremes it’s commonly called this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiker's_thumb
I haven’t heard of your case where you can’t bend it forward. Does it hurt or cause any discomfort if you try to move it forward (without help and also with some gentle pressure)?
I appreciate that when you find a relevant xkcd, the explainxkcd page also has relevant information to the discussion:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2030%3A_Voting_Software
When the reporter follows the interview up with a mention of blockchain technology, Megan and Cueball reflexively tell the reporter to avoid any voting system using the technology at all costs. Blockchain is a relatively new technology that is intended to solve some computer security issues by making it difficult to doctor old data. However, in the process of solving the old computer security issues, it has introduced new computer security issues that have not yet been ironed out; for instance, it doesn’t solve input fraud issues, only data-doctoring fraud, so if a program caused the voting machine to record a vote for candidate B whenever a vote for candidate A was cast (such a program could be uploaded to the voting machines through USB, or through the internet which the voting machine must be connected to for blockchain), blockchain would not prevent it. Blockchain has also had a large number of high-profile scams, thefts, and implementations with critical security holes. Thus, Megan and Cueball may not trust this blockchain solution because of this history.
Blockchain is really great at preventing post-facto data changes. With blockchain you can somewhat guarantee that no one comes in after the election and changes the votes on the machines. (Unless they’re handling the blockchain in a stupid fashion, for example without the distribution.) But you cannot prevent tampering with the machines themselves, such as making them record votes that didn’t happen, or tampering the data before it’s written to the blockchain.
Also, the security issues that Blockchain solves could also be solved via write-once memory, which would be more secure and more difficult to doctor.
Most computer security specialists are more worried about programs that randomly and/or deliberately misreport a vote, than people changing the votes after they’re already recorded, so blockchain would solve an issue that most computer security specialists are less worried about, while causing new issues (the perpetual internet connection among them).
It sounds like OP is asking where this talking point comes from in order to counter it effectively.
I don’t think the post is in bad faith and it fits the purpose of this community. It’s possible that OP is a troll, but their user history doesn’t give that impression and neither does the body of the post.
The title could have been better
That would be the good way of doing this, but I remember right after the
strawberryissue was fixed it would still mess up similar queries. They might have hard-coded something in for that one, at least initially
What are you basing this on?
A while back some people compiled a list of good/bad textbooks at our university:
https://ubcwiki.ca/academics/textbooks#✅-course-hall-of-fame
Generally, open source ones have nicer interfaces. The proprietary ones do various things to limit access and squeeze out profit
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