Are you fucking kidding me‽

The Mellon fortune again? After Cordelia Scaife May used it to help establish our racist immigration system?

https://web.archive.org/web/20190815020220/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html

What happened to all the phone apps that made an effort to detect IMSI catchers, like SnoopSnitch, which appears to be abandoned (F-Droid reports some fishy anti-features?).

Glory to Arstotzka, I guess.

I currently use it, and have largely mitigated issues in a similar way.

Microsoft can’t seem to figure out sync, ever since Briefcase, if you involve multiple computers you invariably end up with more and more conflicting copies. It’s embarrassing.

Office itself is insanely bloated is a world with Markdown, open data formats, and easy access to scripting. They used some pretty unethical tactics to make OOXML a “standard” to stop governments from switching to an actual standard: ODF-based Libre Office.

Zen has “workspaces”, which I don’t get at all. Profiles seems like too much, containers works fine for me.

Crazy all the useless nonsense Mozilla has room for, since they helped kill RSS by dropping browser UI support for it for “simplification”. It was the same rationale for removing live bookmarks and Shift+Enter to add .net to an address and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org.

Coverage of “The Principality of Sealand” and the popularity of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon probably contributed to the enthusiasm, as well as to the creation of Bitcoin.

The liability is obviously not high enough if keeping and sharing this data works out positively. Even if the parties involved weren’t obviously evil, the risk to the people is too high for them to accept the risk with only trivial, speculative improvements.

I just used Handbrake, but there has been one or two discs that it couldn’t see, presumably due to some overly aggressive protection.

Who can really follow the man in the wide castle?

Nancy was effectively president for Reagan’s second term. People were mad about Biden, but they also hid how far gone Reagan was. FDR, too.

Cute.

I don’t think that degree of optimism is justified.

My notes on this are a little old, but:

No VRA protections, voter purges/caging (Crosscheck), targeted disenfranchisement & gerrymandering, insecure/unauditable voting machines, undermined census, and gaming the electoral college, all impact the fairness of our elections, on top of the naive first-past-the-post implementation.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/20/this-anti-voter-fraud-program-gets-it-wrong-over-99-of-the-time-the-gop-wants-to-take-it-nationwide/
• https://capitolfax.com/2017/10/13/dem-house-members-want-state-to-withdraw-from-flawed-national-voter-registration-crosscheck-system/
• https://capitolfax.com/2017/10/19/accidental-and-apparently-harmless-password-leak-could-prompt-move-away-from-crosscheck-program/
• http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article184229328.html
• https://www.thenation.com/article/house-republicans-just-voted-to-eliminate-the-only-federal-agency-that-makes-sure-voting-machines-cant-be-hacked/
• https://apnews.com/af2f0ede054d8baebbe1bb6ca47b4895
• https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/01/09/rnc-ballot-security-consent-decree-328995

Thanks for digging into that!

Do you have any references for this? I only ask because “cities are dangerous shitholes” has been a talking point of reactionaries for a long time.

A lot of hate for this, but it’s true.

Incumbents aren’t to blame for voters picking the familiar, that’s a symptom of another problem.

We’re seeing what an inexperienced government looks like now. They don’t know the limitations they’re supposed to have, and they don’t care.