@hellomiakoda Ever since they started making sample ballots available online, I've always printed out a copy of mine and then researched any of the people/issues I wasn't familiar with. Much easier process -- but I still tend to be avoidant about doing the research...
I agree about mail-in, for that reason and others.
@hellomiakoda Belated thought: mail-in ballots are automatically not secret -- which kind of leaves a big hole in the dam of "nobody must be able to prove how they voted" security.
I can see some major advantages in dropping that idea altogether, starting with your OP (i.e. being able to verify that your own vote was counted correctly).
@Exagone313 @tante I've installed PHP on at least half a dozen web servers and have never had to set up a reverse-proxy.
...fwiw.
How about voting only for Dems who are explicitly trans-supportive?
(Transgirl here too, fwiw. ...and I agree that "centrist" Dems, which includes the Party leaders, are BS.)
@apps Out of curiosity: what makes it difficult to get your own identity, with the app as-is? I assume it's something technical...
@hellomiakoda This is one of the down-sides of ballot secrecy. If you can see how your ballot was counted, then you could prove to someone else how you voted -- which means someone could meaningfully threaten another person with harm unless they voted a certain way (or the opposite: a reward for voting the right way, i.e. literal vote-buying).
I don't know how common this would actually be, but it seems like a valid concern.
(...fwiw, apologies if I'm stating the obvious, etc...)
@sushee ...dissolves your stomach from the inside -- except, of course, for the seven-year accumulation of accidentally-swallowed chewing gum.
(I think I remember hearing both of these myths in the 1970s, but fortunately my parents -- for all their other flaws -- were very science-oriented.)
I've noticed that my home feed is looking bare here, so I think it is time for a re #introduction of sorts (even though I've been here forever)
I'm a gaming journalist who covers handheld gaming mostly. So if you're interested in:
#gaming
#emulation
#RetroGaming
#Linux
#OpenSource
#Nintendo, #Sony & #Xbox
#SteamDeck
#FOSS and the
#PSP
...or know someone I might be interested in following, then let me know! Time to populate my feed again :)
@Natasha_Jay Oh, that's just a cable-snake -- techs leave those behind all the time. Just leave it alone and it'll put itself away.
@faraiwe Right. You don't have to like the option you're voting for; what you want is to select the thing you dislike least -- else you're more likely to end up with one of the others that are even worse.
I wonder how many people honestly don't get this.
I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting defeat ;-)
Speaking for myself, "be worried" is basically a call-to-(metaphorical)-arms, a "be prepared" -- because it's possible we're being insufficiently imaginative in considering the stunts the enemy (that's TFG and his cronies) might pull this time, given how much more desperate they must be this time around.
They know it doesn't end well for them if they can't maintain control of All The Things. They're cornered. They're not afraid to get really ugly, if that's what they think it will take.
Vote and be vigilant.
@LottieVixen Yeah, I've got several. They're one of the more popular brands.
(added) Wikipedia -- I'd never heard of "Schneider Electric" before, though...
@Turntwo363 I don't know how anyone could think that -- but then I also don't know how anyone could vote for Tr💩mp, so...
Humans. Caint dew nuthin' withem. :spiral_eyes:
@Turntwo363 I don't know how to be any more alarmed. (Is that available in the expansion-pack?)
@ljwrites @EveHasWords Could PHP have gotten installed as a dependency of a package which you later removed, maybe? (Just throwing half-baked spaghetti at the walls...)
@mmonahan I wouldn't either, if I were them. Putin is being an utter asshole tyrant, and you don't effin' negotiate with tyrants.
@eniko Non-gamedev; I use LLMs occasionally to answer "how to" questions but not for generating production code. (...and I absolutely do not give the AI companies any money.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/117484070261544428
...and I'm, like, "Pfaugh! I care not for endless mourning over grandeur lost. Let us instead create an entirely new and unexpected grandeur!"
[waits 50 years until freeway is replaced by a Universal Transit roadbed (featuring rail and bike/ped lanes), placing access to the world mere footsteps from my front door]