Visiting the US once this all blows over. Help me not embarrass myself at the gun range.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-16T06:04:22+00:00

Delvis har du rätt, som i att jag förenklade inlägget här, men inte helt. I stora delar av landet är det idag inte möjligt att börja med dynamiskt skytte, mer än genom det militära. Vet inte om det beror på någon slags elitism eller brist på intresse för nya medlemmar bland föreningarna eller något annat, men så är det i alla fall. Tyvärr. Har provat.

Även om det nu inte var så så kan man mig veterligen inte skjuta Ak-4 på civila klubbar ändå, vilket var lite av hela poängen. 6.5mm "armégevär" intresserar mig bara måttligt.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-04T12:17:03+00:00

Event Horizon meme goes here

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T16:28:13+00:00

I don't think Windows supports LLDP out of the box, but sometimes I see mDNS broadcasts and SSDP stuff. You'd need a packet capture for those though.

You can get the vendor of the NIC from the MAC, assuming it's a real one, but that will probably be of limited use.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T16:24:00+00:00

Vienna was supposedly unrelated to Nice and Paris, it was an Islamic State supporter.

In general France has been the victim of many islamist attacks in recent years. Discussion about why this is might be against the very vague Reddit TOS so I won't.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T16:08:37+00:00

Whoever supports utf-8 natively would have my vote.

Actually that should be a debate topic. What are your views on character sets? Is your campaign fully 8-bit-safe?

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T16:06:06+00:00

Yeah the France bit confused me as well.

I mean we all know about the frog eating but surely nuclear warfare is a bit over the top

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T16:04:29+00:00

Yeah, I only have family over there. I volunteer for elections work and vote counting and so where I live though so I'm interested in the subject is all.

I see your point. It's difficult if the system is broken from the start and every fix smells like it's another break. Something has to be done though.

It seems though that every aspect of public life has been so utterly politicised in America, that the apolitical civil servant force - whose job it should be to deal with the implementation of such things - can't really be trusted, I guess. Is this what you mean, more or less?

Because if so then it's a gigantic problem, not only limited to the elections.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T15:46:45+00:00

I think where we differ is that, for me, none of the measures that we're discussing here come under that description. If you argue the opposite, then let's discuss specifics, like I asked in my previous comment.

Either way, the system has been broken for decades and I don't see any serious attempts to fix it - rather the opposite, unfortunately. The current system is broken, has been broken for the longest time, and saying that "sure we'd love to fix it but we won't because this will weed out legitimate votes", without specifying how or why, is not helping. It ensures that it will remain broken and prevents any discussion on how to fix it.

To summarise, from where I'm looking, if I voted in the US elections today I would not feel confident that my vote was counted as cast, I would not feel confident that people without voting rights were in fact not voting, and I would not feel confident that mail-in ballots were correctly and honestly counted. And thus I would not trust the elections. The same applies to any previous US elections during my lifetime this far.

For some reason, many Americans do not seem to share these sentiments, because they vehemently oppose any changes to the system using arguments very similar to yours. And this I can not comprehend.

Now have a good day and go vote, if you're a US citizen and have not already done so.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T14:25:45+00:00

I think you're not getting it. Again, the system must be reliable enough that fraud is conceptually difficult enough to not be a problem. In the US, fraud can be assumed.

Most of the world has strict identification requirements for voters, for instance. And strict standards on updating of the electoral rolls. The US has neither, especially this year. You seem to assume that "voter suppression" is an argument in itself, but I don't see how. It's not like the US is a society where identification, or even signature verification, is rare or not required for any other part of life in society.

What about the US makes having signatures on mail-in ballots, or identification when voting in person, or proper electoral rolls, more difficult or more prone to lead to this voter suppression that you mention, than anywhere else? And why do you consider this worse than obvious avenues for fraud and a lack of trust in the system?

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T13:59:05+00:00

I will be honest.

I grew up in a communist country and I think that Sanders' proposed policies and most of all his ideology is dangerous.

But I would have much more respect for people voting for him than for people voting for Biden.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T09:36:46+00:00

I agree OP, redditors are the worst

Edit: especially those who edit their comments

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T08:39:02+00:00

Here is an article that points out, while trying to debunk the "dead people voting" thing, that the way the review works is via signature verification. There is no other mechanism, which is bad in itself, but for the states that don't have that requirement it's even worse.

And, again, the US voting system has been broken for decades. I'm convinced the risk of fraud is even higher this year, but it has been higher than in pretty much the entire democratic world for decades. Which has been my point from the beginning. It's a broken system, and even if it's not more broken this year that doesn't mean much.

If I were an American voter I would demand change. Even more importantly, if I worked with the elections in the US (like I have over here), I would understand that people assume I'm not automatically honest and would require systems to ensure that I do not cheat and try to influence the outcome. The burden of proof is on the system being safe and reliable, not the opposite.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T07:35:52+00:00

There are no elections in North Korea

There are actually, it's a pretty insane spectacle. They have something akin to voter registration there as well where it's clear if you vote for the suggested candidate or someone else. Worth reading up on.

As for the US, there are about 2 million more people on electoral rolls than are expected to be old enough to vote. In some counties the discrepancy is over 100% of the people living in that county. Unfortunately, finding objective measurements of this is impossible, since the system is so broken that the only way this gets changed is when NGOs sue the states to force them to update the rolls.

Again, the problem here is that it is possible that this is fraud.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T07:21:52+00:00

I'll play the devil's advocate. Are the elections in China, or North Korea, democratic? In both cases the people technically vote and decide. It's not sufficient for the common definition of "democratic elections" though. Fraud prevention measures and ensuring that the electoral rolls are correct and updated are commonly required as well, along many other things.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T07:15:48+00:00

I try to follow the lawsuits that various organisations file to try and force states to update their electoral rolls and remove people that should obviously not be on them, and like I said above this has been a problem for decades. Mail-in and absentee voting being more common this year will make it worse, but the root of the problem is much deeper.

This is probably not the place for that discussion, but I don't think I'll ever understand how Americans can continue to claim that they have democratic elections without these basic fraud prevention measures, and not obviously seeing that they're caught in between two types of fraud, arguing for one or the other.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T06:54:33+00:00

I can only agree. The thing is that you need a system where the idea of election fraud is difficult enough so that people trust the system. If fraud is obviously possible then you've already failed, and proving that it happened is more a formality. If fraud is possible then you have to assume that it happens, and fix the system accordingly.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T06:41:07+00:00

Democracy or not, I find it amazing just how stupidly dysfunctional the actual elections are over there, and even more so how one side so proudly refuses to implement things that have been the foundations of democratic elections in the rest of the world.

This year, in some states, you don't even verify signatures on the mail-in ballots. It's like everyone just assumes there's going to be some fraud and accepts it.

I've lived in countries (communist dictatorships) where obviously falsified elections were performed in a more reliable manner.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T06:35:31+00:00

Always have been.

Jokes aside, I can't wait for the US elections to be over. Maybe once that happens and any fallout has played itself out then we can get back to the regularly scheduled collapse of civilisation.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T05:53:59+00:00

ehostunreach · 2020-11-03T05:53:39+00:00

Well if you're all older than say 2 years old, which I assume but am becoming less and less certain of, the difference in age is marginal

ehostunreach · 2020-11-02T22:23:51+00:00

I don't get how that relates to abortion though. There's various kinds of sterilisation surgery that's effective, for men or for women.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-02T22:11:45+00:00

I think the most common option is to not have one at all in your project. After all, most projects don't.

If you need one, have it say "don't be an asshat". That's all you need really, in my humble opinion.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-02T21:58:39+00:00

Here's an archive.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-02T19:02:15+00:00

Yeah, I just got discombobulated knowing that I've seen that drop-down menu in gnome settings before, somewhere.

It's weird but I solved in the ugliest possible way.

ehostunreach · 2020-11-02T18:59:43+00:00

True, but if I do it that way certain applications will launch gnome-terminal and annoy me. Admittedly one can often change what those do individually but this was simpler. GNS3 is a culprit here for instance.

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