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They used mechanical voting machines when I was a kid, and I don't recall elections ever being this "buggy." Damn nerds.

Braille is simpler, and does not require thousands of lines of code, which could obscure all sorts of malicious payload.

I have a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks Dominion has actually audited any of these external dependencies.

They run on MS Windows, and an assorted pile of shitware a mile deep. Bullshit passed through an HP LaserJet is still bullshit.

And why on earth does a voting machine require OggVorbis?

https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/voting_system/files/...

There are many SVG rasterizers out there. This one is okay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librsvg

Could just be that I'm a cross-platform guy, but it seems like most programs bypass the OS rasterization stack (rendering fonts/curves/polygons/etc. with open source libraries rather than native OS facilities, and sending the OS a finished bitmap). This choice probably addressed a mix of cross-platform consistency issues, as well as the lowest-common-denominator problem.

Nothing cryptic about the word of Jesus Christ.

"Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house."

If the words of Klaus & Co. aren't setting off your alarm bells, I can't help you.

I don't buy that these people would ever give the peasants a jubilee.

It is strange territory for them, fraught with unforeseeable consequences -- can't really run the stats on something that hasn't happened in centuries.

And the old Malthusian terrors are, evidently, still very much on their minds -- now over climate rather than food.

"Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."

Back to the click farm mortgage slaves! Leave the politics to your betters.

Either this guy's level of self-awareness is so low that it could strike oil, OR, he's written a shitpost that might just save Texas.

Starting off, SVG is an XML encoding, which is a rather hairy thing to deal with. Just to get a feel for LOCs:

https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2

There's also the web's (horrible) tendency to make a diarrhea of special-purpose tags and attributes--many of which could be subsumed by basic turing-completeness. Compare this to postscript, which was a relatively simple stack machine to begin with.

And of course, if we start special-purposing things, we're no longer compliant with the standard, and it would be chaos to call it SVG at that point.

Probably not the best idea. SVG is loaded with CSS/DOM baggage that would lead to all sorts of pathologies further down the road.

In a way, it has been done before, with a far saner approach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript

Why is an anti-hate "international not-for-profit NGO" taking on anti-vax? Who is funding them?

Dan Loeb

> Docker + "Moving Software Development Forward"

Oh! My sides!

I believe that's how JWZ's XScreenSaver works, but every distro decided to re-invent the wheel there for whatever reason, then blame it all on X11 when it inevitably fails.

The artists, or the programmers? It's a toss-up as to who should repent first.

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My memory may not be what it was, but I believe King Terry dictated 16 colors for the temple. 256 is 4-bits too many! You could do quality porn w/ 256, and that would be ungodly!

Seems that this Bisqwit also has a touch of the divine intellect. We must do a better job of protecting him!

Intel never could design a CPU that was worth a damn. Their ace-in-the-hole was always device physics. When that stalled, they went from MVP to corporate zombie.

I think this is another Marissa Mayer -- someone sent to harvest a little meat from the corpse before the flies come.

I think it does add something, but people here are too sold on certain narratives to approach opposing ones with an open mind.

There is a fine line between donation and payment laundering. The latter happens more often than people would like to believe. For the thousands of 501c3s out there, there's nowhere near enough grannies writing $25 checks to keep even half of them in the black.

edit: and we are not alone in this suspicion

https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html

JWZ doesn't think much of it either, but you'll have to copy-paste this since he doesn't think much of HN either:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-num...

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"Tripping Over The Truth," seconded.

Some people watch too much History Channel. My first thought on that page was, "These people must hate rails as much as I do."

Examples in Leadership, per Wikipedia:

Firing no shot in his defence, his troop numbers swelled until they became an army. On 5 March, the nominally royalist 5th Infantry Regiment at Grenoble went over to Napoleon en masse. The next day they were joined by the 7th Infantry Regiment under its colonel, Charles de la Bédoyère, who was executed for treason by the Bourbons after the campaign ended.

An anecdote illustrates Napoleon's charisma: when royalist troops were deployed to stop the march of Napoleon's force at Laffrey, near Grenoble, Napoleon stepped out in front of them, ripped open his coat and said "If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am." The men joined his cause.

An extravagant display of corporate house slave privilege. Most people, even those among the "golden billion," have much bigger problems than gender pronouns.

Think about waitresses or cashiers. Most could care less if you call them Pete or Sue, as long as they can get enough hours for the week, and the direct deposit is on-time.

Not sure if some boomer accidentally tazing his own balls qualifies as an armed insurrection.

In our heyday, our representatives would duel over points of honor. Nowadays, all it takes is a swarm of elderly neckbeards to make them cower beneath their desks.

Only an ideologue would buy that. So many threats, plots, doxxings, stalkings left unmoderated on Facebook and Twitter--and that's only summer of 2020!

This is clearly retaliation for the H1-B caps / S230 threats of the outgoing administration, rather than corporate concern for the stability of the republic. How many people here can even say "corporate concern" with a straight face?

Business is war, alliances change. What they do to the MAGA grannies today might not be so amusing when the targets change.

I think this hyperbole has more to do with the H1-B caps and the Section 230 saber-rattling than anything that actually happened on Parler.

Trumpism came close to inflicting a hemorrhaging wound on their business models, but it missed, and now it will be eliminated with extreme prejudice.

Then these boomers rode up to DC to unwittingly put more wind in the valley's sails.

Patriot Act II, here we come!