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You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together.

No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them. Rules and procedures don’t matter if the people in charge ignore them. And again, you’re not getting access to any of the data we’re talking about in the first place, because the government would have to grant that access, and you’re not a person as far as they’re concerned in this scenario. What organisations have you worked for that would just give out information to a person they can’t verify the identity of?

That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

No, it’s happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you’re up to speed.

Logs, eh? You know those are just text files, right? And how do you plan to get access to them to prove any kind of mistake or malfeasance, exactly?

“illegitimately” is the key word there. I’m not interested in what you think happens if everything is working as intended, or your poor reading comprehension. F-, rewrite your answer and address the question or you’ll fail the class and be held back a grade.

That’s a really weird way of looking at it. Without the database, there’s no central ledger to consult as to whether or not you’re legally a person. Like @[email protected] said:

The database is the backbone of them being able to hurt or harm

Without that starting point, “the organizational structure, rules, and procedures” that rely on the data from the database are impotent.

Looking for ways the system can be abused and addressing those loopholes is basic risk assessment, so

just shut up

I strongly suggest taking a heaping helping of your own advice, mate.

What happens if someone is illegitimately removed from this database? How can you show whether it was a glitch, or deliberate? How do you know if the information they have about you is even right, or get it changed if you need to? Where’s the accountability?

See the UK Post Office accounting scandal, in which a persistent computer error went unfixed for decades and caused hundreds of post office employees to be fired and dragged through courts for corruption that never happened. A good chunk of them committed suicide. The government and the software company both knew about the bug causing the issue, too, but prosecutions continued. “If the computer says it, it must be right”, sort of danger.

Yes, let’s make sure we’re on the same page. You’re talking about theory, I’m talking about practice - which, in theory, are the same. In practice, however…

They ended the ability of the Judiciary to check the Executive. That’s the very foundation of the government, set out in the Constitution: https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation01.html

So yeah, it’s the final nail in the coffin of the Constitution.

Damn, dude. I’ve been thinking about getting a 3D printer and was leaning towards resin because I heard it was better for minis, and I see how it’s different, but these look perfectly fine and there’s no fumes or toxic sludge to deal with. Since I mainly want it for printing household fixits and ease-of-use is a factor, being able to get back into tabletop gaming (and painting) as well is a very nice bonus. I feel pretty good about going with an FDM printer now, thanks for sharing!

I’m surprised by the quality of the print, I’d love to see other pieces you’re proud of (and some you weren’t so happy with, too)!

That’s the “special application” I mentioned, but it seems to have been updated since I last looked at it so it now offers the same level of encryption as the webmail app.

I would prefer to see it freely available, but it doesn’t seem foundational to using the service in any scenario - free accounts have the webmail and mobile clients, which are arguably both more flexible (and maintainable) than the Bridge.

Thunderbird doesn’t have your private key to decrypt your Proton emails. The key lives in your browser and in theory there’s no way to securely provide that key to Thunderbird so it can do the decrypting. There’s a special application they built for business owners who want this functionality, but by nature it breaks Proton’s security because the email content is then stored in plaintext (or close enough) so it’s not “secure” in the same sense Proton webmail is. (edit: maybe it got updates since I last looked, because the Bridge is now as secure as the webmail)

I normally use a Kinesis Advantage 2 (but in qwerty, unlike OP), and I can go back to a standard layout qwerty board with just a small adjustment period - I keep hitting “x” when I mean to hit “c”, sort of thing. But it’s an adjustment I can make “mid-stream” so to speak; I just use the board and get used to it again as I go.

Not “giving away”. Spending, for services. Which just makes it even more audacious.

Incorrect, this is a lawsuit that shows evidence of election tampering unlike anything the courts will have ever seen before. Discovery is going to turn up a lot of records, or a lot of deleted records. This, along with the blatant lawlessness of the president’s actions right now, might be the spark to get the states to actually do something about the federal government being compromised. It’s extremely important information.

That’s fair. Right there with you in fact. Fuck this regime.

Alright, I added “more” to it. Happy now? It’s not like I was unaware of his first term.

The article says this wouldn’t undo the election. I’m not sure it shouldn’t. We can’t afford to have a foreign actor in the big seat for four more years. We just can’t.

https://apnews.com/press-release/access-newswire/diane-sare-kamala-harris-kamala-harris-es-kirsten-gillibrand-new-hampshire-225173eaaf66b420844508516b365caf

There’s a lawsuit proceeding to discovery in New York, which is mentioned in the original article. So in this at least, it’s got corroboration from other outlets and in the suit itself.