Except that FileZilla does come with bundled adware from their sponsors and they do want you to pay for the pro version. It probably is the shittiest GPL-licensed piece of software I can think of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileZilla#Bundled_adware_issues

It also says that they might have planned a second expansion featuring it. Doesn’t really say when the content was made, just that it would have been DLC.

I’ve played Phantom Liberty, going to the moon would fit that story. Maybe this is cut content from that expansion, not its own thing.

Void and Alpine are pretty great!

The sheer waste of energy and mass production of garbage clogging up search results alone is enough to make me hope the bubble will pop reeeeal soon. Sucks for research but honestly the bad far outweighs the good right now, it has to die.

OpenAI really captured the essence of “oh shit I didn’t study for this exam at all so I’ll just try and bullshit my way through it”

Yes, but the article only exists because there is this academic cottage industry that produces insane grievance studies in the first place.

To be fair it wasn’t CNN doing this groundbreaking “research”.

Ich verstehe es auch nicht, vor allem wenn dann wieder der Flüssigsalzreaktor mit ThOrIuM ausgegraben wird, als ob es das schon einsatzbereit gäbe.

Oh nein! Jedenfalls…

Such is the price of freeedom.

Schön und gut, Russland ist leider der Meinung dass es besser ist zu einem 2. Nordkorea zu werden als aufzugeben. Und ob es strategisch die beste Idee ist China abzuschneiden sei auch mal dahingestellt. Wer weiß auf was für Ideen die kommen wenn sie wissen dass der Westen kein Druckmittel mehr hat.

What about the Space Force?

Counter point: Current-day Russia is many things but socialist certainly isn’t one of them. Inequality is massive and health care is drinking yourself to death.

So, you know, fuckin’ #BASED

Alright, thank you for the information! I still think that those machines are unnecessary but I can see how they are at least not making things worse.

No paper trail still seems like insanity though, especially if auditing comes down to a non-technical person with “training” connecting some box to the machines that then tells them it’s OK.

How does the auditing work in these cases?

Also I found news reports about some US states still using machines without paper trail…

Warum nicht so? Joggerin stolpert über irgend etwas, schreit überrascht auf und fällt dann so dass sie vom Sturz ohnmächtig wird.

Counting by hand is fine. I see no value in the process being instantaneous. Especially not compared to the monetary cost and organizational overhead.

But what’s the point? Count everything by hand instead of relying on the machine to report anomalies, do exit polls to satisfy the news cycle. This seems too important to introduce an ultimately opaque machine into and also costs a lot for zero gain.

And then there are also the machines that so take over the process more thoroughly.

The right thing would be to abandon the concept altogether. Paper is accessible and obvious to everybody, auditing an election machine isn’t. Just keep it simple, even if it takes longer.