petersr

joined 2 years ago

Well, I guess we're all in it together in c/politicalmemes

[–] petersr 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nein

Chance of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 smashing into Earth rises yet again to 3.1%, NASA reports in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Question: How would the terrorists ensure it hurts the people they want and not their own?

Basic courtesy in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 1 points 1 week ago

Came to the comments just to look for this.

TIL: About Dyson Sphere. A hypothetical megastructure we would put around a star to absorb the energy being sent in space in c/til

[–] petersr 2 points 1 week ago

Ubisoft announces Rainbow Six Siege X, the "biggest transformation in the game's history" in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 4 points 1 week ago

I actually agree. I loved playing Siege and think they did a great job handling micro transactions. But couldn't resist posting a meme.

Ubisoft announces Rainbow Six Siege X, the "biggest transformation in the game's history" in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Internet blasts Trump for quoting Napoleon: 'Translation: I want to be a dictator' in c/politics

[–] petersr 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does Hitler have any memorable quotes though?

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 2 points 2 weeks ago

I stand corrected

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr -5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Something about aesthetics without a single image in the post?

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went - Denise Wheeler in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 3 points 2 weeks ago

But let me get this straight - this requires access to the voting machine in a way that allows installing software that somehow intervene with the existing voting software.

And perhaps I am naive here, but I would assume that such a voting machine runs either

custom firmware / embedded operating system
custom version of Windows
custom or special purpose Linux
Windows in kiosk mode so normal users can't access other application than the voting software nor OS settings.

As a minimum I would assume kiosk mode, but to be honest I would expect much more than that from a voting system, including tightened security and no or very limited interoperability between the voting software and other software on the machine. And I am not seeing any nasty malicious system-level code in the repo.

And yes, as you highlight, it is hard to buy this chain of events and yes, voting machines are a bad idea. As a technical person it sounds like conspiracy theorizing.

Why would'nt this work? in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But.. But.. The stick is unfoldable!

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went - Denise Wheeler in c/[email protected]

[–] petersr 5 points 2 weeks ago

I guess you are getting downvoted because you come of a little aggressive, but yeah, I also don't see the real danger with these scripts by themselves.