Notices by axleyjc (axleyjc@federate.social)

@kingrat Not sure I get the metaphor.

It is certainly plausible that it is not possible to guard against an electorate that is hell-bent on willingly voting to destroy the government institutions. That would be a very useful research result if someone could model and prove it.

Without that evidence, I see there are a lot of no-brainer things that could be done to reduce the likelihood of harms (often the best outcome a threat model can give you)

E.g. prohibiting felons from holding office

@kingrat

Taking powers away from the executive branch that were intended to or should be wielded by Congress (that has its own set of threats in the polarized political environment...)

Clarifying legal prohibitions of those who sought to overturn the government so they are actually enforceable.

The United States needs to replace norms with laws. The system has been shown to be exceedingly vulnerable. Our only saving grace so far has been the incompetence and hubris of those exploiting the weaknesses for their own gain.

Time to seriously threat model the systems of checks and balances before a competent enemy of the US can take full advantage of them to the detriment of the world.

I'm not very hopeful we'll have leaders nor an electorate who can make this happen.

@molly0xfff I only wish discovering plain, non-propeietary RSS feed URLs wasn't so painful for most podcasts and sites...

Vivaldi fortunately shows an RSS feed icon on pages with discoverable feeds! Firefox removed that feature long ago

@dalias I hate that they still insist on shading the maps without considering population or % outstanding to be counted.

@dalias I think the only way to disable that wfa is to enable Advanced Protection

@dalias Damn it! Just checked and advanced protection leaves that enabled. Ffs!

@dalias I hate that they don't let you disable push to authenticate 2fa. Especially on kid accounts.

This is a fantastic deep dive into the crap that Ticketmaster is doing to obfuscate its profits they siphon off of its customers.

Is Ticketmaster Telling the Truth About Its Finances?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-ticketmaster-telling-the-truth

> In response to recent antitrust charges, Live Nation claims it is barely profitable. But then quietly it also just flagged internal accounting issues on its investor docs. What is going on?

The other way that Microsoft recall will be a security and privacy disaster:

By taking screenshots and OCRing them and not having a way for apps to prevent screenshots (like a sane operating system), they're enabling sensitive data to end up on an endpoint that otherwise would have stayed safely within your data perimeter.

You accessed that sensitive data via some remote desktop app to prevent the very thing that Recall enables from happening.