Björn Tantau @ bjoern_tantau @swg-empire.de

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Still that's a solved problem. You just use different color coded papers for each item that has to be voted on.

I really don't get the US's difficulties with paper votes. It's so easy to understand literal preschoolers can understand it. I know because our children voted on meal choices in preschool every time an election happened in Germany.

It's super transparent. You can just watch the counts or even count them yourself if you doubt them.

It's fast. If you have enough voting districts counting takes an hour or two. Maybe a few more if you have a big district with many different issues to vote on.

Almost everyone can understand how it works. Even many literally mentally disabled people. I find this to be the most compelling argument for paper voting. You leave noone behind. It's a super simple concept to grasp that reaches every citizen. But with electronic voting you need to have a degree in computer science to understand that it is not transparent at all what is happening inside the machine.

They literally did something like that already a few years back. Just with a traditional assistant-like bot similar to Alexa and Siri. I think they were sued all over the place. At least in Europe.

Yes, but he just really really loved children. He just had pictures of naked children all over his wall because he loved their purity! Really! Alice's family said so and they wouldn't lie!

According to the foreword of my Alice's Adventures in Wonderland edition.

GPS? Absolutely insufficient. What about the people on the ISS? Or when the moon base is established? Ever thought of that? No. You think only of yourself.

Scite can do it.

Notepad++ probably too but I don't know if it's available on Linux. I just remember it being the text editor to use on Windows.

I love Kate. If I recall correctly you can even configure it to fold everything by default.

Apart from changing the docker config of your existing installation you can also symlink the new folder to the old location.

Or if Docker or Nextcloud doesn't like symlinks you can also mount the folder there. Folders can be mounted more or less the same as devices.

I really expected better of you, SatansMaggotyCumFart.

That's why God invented clothes.

We say "ugh, there is too much stuff in front of the microwave, do you mind eating it cold?"

And I think that's beautiful.

The funny thing is that the init part is working really really well. At least from a user perspective. Writing a unit file is soooo much easier than writing an init script. You just point it at the executable of your service and are done. Systemd does the complicated rest.

You people are getting updates?

I really hate that I cannot just do everything with the pocket computer I own that is running a supposedly free operating system.

Those news of Wiimotes destroying TVs and not the other way around worked really well.

And your Steam Deck will likely be able to emulate it.

I actually think that the Steam Deck is popular enough to be the easy thing to get into PC gaming. Jennifer English (actress of Shadowheart and Maelle) got one after becoming a voting BAFTA member in order to evaluate PC games. And although I think she would care about software freedom she has no idea that it is even a thing that exists.

A Steam Deck was as much an informed decision for her as getting a PlayStation 5 to play Baldur's Gate 3. So mostly none.

And they all end up in a point labeled u.

Fucking shit, I should not have read on. Now I'm in pain from overexertion. Fuck Long Covid! Fuck ME/CFS!

I should have read on. A few sentences later she wrote that they loved the military parades. It gave them back some lost pride after the first world war. They liked Hitler. They wanted a hero to look up to. It reminded her of all the books they read at school, also praising all the great heroes of history.

At the time Hitler invading small countries and fighting communists was seen as "liberation". But a full blown war was looming on the horizon already and they were afraid of that.

But in the end life went on. With all its ups and downs. The husband was singing racist songs but that was more an annoying occurrence than something outrageous. He took part in military training, mostly for sport. He quit his Nazi job after an accident he felt responsible for (but actually wasn't because he was at said training when it happened).

The worst thing the Nazis did to them was to restrict the name of their second child. They couldn't use the name they had chosen because it was of Jewish origin. So the poor husband had to think of a new one at the office on the spot.

And then the war started and he was conscripted. They were afraid of bombs and gas and she prepared their apartment for that. He did come back once when his father had a fatal accident. Everyone at the hospital was nice to him because he was in uniform.

Later when the bombs did fall in 1941 she had to find a new place to live for herself and her two children. It was a normal thing for many Germans. The trains were super full, especially in the lowest class which was the only thing she could afford. Luckily she had rich relatives who took them in.

So life went on. Funnily enough her rich aunt (?) wasn't racist but classist. The children were allowed to play with the Baltic children but not with the children of a waiter. Only where aunty couldn't see them. My grandma wrote letters to her husband and he wrote back to her and sent her dried flowers from Norway where he was relatively safe.

Fleeing from bombs into cellars became part of life. People helped each other survive where they could. Family members started to fall in the war. And eventually her husband as well, a few days before he was supposed to come home from his safe post.

I'm tired. I'll continue reading tomorrow.