Your boss is an asshole for telling you that putting something that’s going in the bin into your mouth instead. Even if it’s a policy, he’s choosing to enforce it and doesn’t need to.

Don’t snitch on your coworkers and tell your boss your coworkers are doing something as a way of getting out of trouble for something.

Not that I’ve encountered. It used to be pretty janky but these days runs as well as on Windows.

Yes please.

Is there really a ton of overlap between people privacy-conscious enough to install graphene on their phone and people who care so little that their car has an app?

FL studio runs well in wine. VSTs are hit-or-miss whether they work but you’ll be fine with it on wine it runs great.

This is… All wrong?

Sure, if someone manages to “crack” a cryptographic system, they may be able to manipulate results, but like…that’s really unlikely. And even when it does happen, a lot of times there are a lot of constraints on cracks of cryptographic systems that mean that the system still offers a lot of protection even if it should be revised (e.g. a crack may mean it only takes 5 years to crack something that we thought would take til the end of the universe to crack or something like that)

Paper is also manipulable? Like you can just forge someone’s signature or have a different peice of paper and say it was theirs even if they voted for someone else really. Vote counters are fallible, what if someone casts two paper ballots counted by two different people? There are all kinds of ways paper ballots can be defrauded.

But vote fraud needs done at scale and really only works when the state is absolutely flailing in it’s ability to maintain order.

A much simpler solution with many other benefits is to simply stricture society so that government positions are positions of service, not power…which is what all democracies claim to strive for in the first place, however disingenuously it is made when it’s empires and settler colonies. But that is the key: one doesn’t even need to be voted in if there is only service and not power in the role. They can just…sign up and will be thanked for helping society run.

Edit: also lmao at the idea of vibe coded cryptographic voting.

I don’t know if I wholly agree. I think there’s something interesting about the idea of using a (standardized, open-source) cryptographic system to prove that your vote was counted without revealing who you voted for.

But that would have to take place in a political system where people were acting in good faith, which is not what America has.

Name one period in history when the American state wasn’t going about doing the most heinous shit.

The USA is at it’s core a settler colony, always has been. There’s a sickness at the heart of someone who lives on stolen land. You see it in America, in Israel, south Africa, and countless other examples across history. Any time you have people who can justify coming in and stealing another people’s home and call it their own home you get this tension between people with half a conscience who try to limit the worst effects of their government and people who don’t give a single fuck and want nothing but comfort at the expense of others’ suffering at the hands of the state.

This is amazing. So what you’re saying is that the answer is that there are now three separate syncthing apps, which are all similarly functional and in collaboration with each other?