You and me both sister

Welcome to the last 20 years. (Someone older than me would likely say last 40… and so on)

Defcon 25 appears to be the first year of the voting village.

That said the late 2000s were full of discussion on voting machine security prior to the addition of the voting village. This was all old news by the time voting village was added.

This documentary explains where security was in 2006

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/

I haven’t watched this in a very long time but the hackers managed to procure source code from a public sever run by the company making the machines (Diebold I think) and faced some legal issues as a result.

They also illustrated a proof of concept attack where a counting machine was made to miscount votes to favor one person over another.

For people not in the know its very important to know that it is ILLEGAL for an independent 3rd party to perform penetration tests on voting machines without the manufacturer’s consent and the code that runs these machines is not public in any way that would allow for a proper audit of the systems to ensure that even the manufacturer has not tampered with the machine.

In general, with tools these LLMs have the ability to bring the next generation of Alexa / HomePod like devices (though I am not sure Amazon has delivered on that vision yet)

I like the idea of running a Llama based “Assistant” that would not require all my data leaving my house which could also be accomplished with these features.

In my car though… just use my fucking phone and get out of my way

People who don’t understand and read these articles and think Skynet. People who know their buzz words think AGI

Fortune isn’t exactly renowned for its Technology journalism

God, I just wish I could hitch a ride and slam some pan galactic gargle blasters for a while :(

Works the other way too.

If I take 100 Gallons of clean water and dump a gallon of sewage into it, would you pour yourself a glass?

The systemd and the Wayland debate both feel very similar.

At the end of the day the old method of using init scripts was becoming inadequate and needed to change

Wayland debate seems the same, switching to Wayland has been talked about for over a decade. The change has been coming and frankly I was expecting it a lot earlier

Whats neat about linux though is if you have nothing better to do and are knowledgeable enough to bitch about all of this; then you also have the technical prowess to standup an install of your favorite distro and get it to use X instead of Wayland and init scripts instead of systemd

For me as an enduser I hope Wayland enables more modern features to be delivered more easily as X has felt old for a while.

I want to berate you if you were raised in the US and don’t know.

That said if you are younger than me in some states it’s been deemed un important over the last 20 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise

This is referred to as “The Great Compromise”

Slave holding states wanted slaves to count for the census and free states saw that as un fair. So slaves got to count as 3/5ths of a person and everybody won! /s

No VA doctor should be refusing to treat any patient for those reasons. It’s absurd and unethical.

and they shit themselves in self defense.

Seems to work for them though /s

Monkey Trouble is my wife’s jam. We have it on Laserdisc even because I like collecting junk :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110557/

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He will be president again in 2028 😨

Exactly though. From an Opsec perspective the only way they let him fly on that thing as a US president is if he pisses someone off

After he is president all it will be for is for people to tour at his library (can you imagine a library with Trump’s name on it?)

Edit: I re-thought an icky joke

I have serious doubts that this thing will actually carry a president as Air Force 1 is equipped with quite a lot of equipment that civilian aircraft do not have. Some of it is top secret

Missile Avoidance, Radar, Radios, Aerial Refueling

This is also a potential for general espionage as planes are quite large and there are lots of places to hide things

I just came to say that his mouth really needs to have a dick photo shopped in it

I would ask what value chromebooks add to education?

We are not teaching kids to do anything with them other than consume Google and Adobe services.

It’s no better than schools were when I was in school where we used windows and mainly learned to consume Microsoft products.

Chromebooks are absolute garbage.

Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the “sticking scissors into a USB port” with some regularity)

Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though… it gets red hot and melts eventually

Man, weed, sex workers, bicycles AND cobblestone… the Netherlands has it all!

All kidding aside, I love the videos that Not Just Bikes makes on the infrastructure in the EU

It’s very foreign to me to understand a society that values bicycle mechanics. In the US it can be very different

I just wanna get baked and fix bicycles… but that won’t cover my rent and feed my family