I mention software freedom whenever I can.
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@lemmy.world
I mention software freedom whenever I can.
Profile avatar is "paperclip" by Sina Schulz. CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am not affiliated with OpenMoji.
Electronics are superior to paper for many tasks but voting for your share of representation in government ain't one of them. Without indentifying who voted for who (red flag) and verifying it then you can only hope the software was counting properly at run time and not subverted. You can watch people miscount paper in real-time and call them out.
It's probably time I should get off my ass and write to my Labour representative saying I'm voting for any other party until they repeal this (and the "online safety act").
I hate social media but I hate "papers, please" to use the web even more.
It is imperative you can vote without others knowing how you voted (at least here in the UK..). Electronic voting is inferrior to paper when it comes to trustworthness of recording an anonymous vote, counting the result and preventing mass vote fraud.
We already have a hardcopy ID to travel internationally or ID to drive vehicles. The risks of an electronic ID being easily copied would have to get me visiting other solar systems or driving a time machine before I considered it. Something tells me the paper options would continue working at first but eventually this idea will be forced on people.
A party that won't fix the issue of FPTP with a proportional voting system are the ones who do not want my vote over other parties. Perhaps you too should speak to your MP about that, instead of blaming me for others getting into power. I will no longer vote for who I don't want to merely keep another party out. Deal with it.
It is true that paper ID can be forged but where it differs is the inability to do it at such a large scale compared to electronic. Slightly different results can be attributed to human error as it is very difficult to change a single paper vote when other parties are watching. It's impossible to have confidence in a black box electronic system (even if the code and machine were auditable, who's to ssy what it's actually doing at run-time when may users have access to it).
Software is written by humans and humans make mistakes, therefore software contains mistakes. You could perhaps argue electronic ID could be difficult to copy but the mere suggestion of a bug should push over the idea of it being impossible.
Perfection is the enemy of good.
I would write to my MP that I would vote for any other party to make it clear this is an issue. I am not saying all other parties are adcAequally good.
It's difficult to tell if you're being sincere when you phrase what I see as a problem of mass surveillancep&r
The manufacture should have zero say if their product gets repaired or not. The only person who can give permission to repair it is the owner. It should be illegal to implement tying to lockout parts being used as a replacement. Right to repair
They call it jailbreak because this is an issue of freedom: software freedom
Before hitting submit I'd worry I've made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.
Do they think the AI written code Just Works (TM)? Do they feel so detached from that code that they don't feel embarrassment when it's shit? It's like calling yourself a fictional story writer and writing "written by (your name)" on the cover when you didn't write it, and it's nonsense.
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