@mattblaze @Nerde
Reading between the lines, she got thrown out after the cops were called for being a PITA prior to the polls closing, and is using that as a basis to claim that she wasn't allowed to keep doing poll-watchy stuff to witness some of those procedures.

And part of it is that machines go into sleep mode instead of pulling the plug, which probably makes sense if they need to hold on to some data for the duration of the election. Also sounds like there might be some disagreement between Friesdat and all of the other election workers/officials regarding the extent of access she should have to various data.

But most of the info is only coming from Friesdat, which is probably contributing to the confusion.

Also, #mood, treffien jälkeen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKNhyvOwpI

@publicvoit wird angeblich demnächst besser. Sagte mir kürzlich jemand mit mehr Expertise

I've long talked about public service IT procurement (globally but esp in NZ) with derision, especially towards the 'priorities and values' of the decision makers. I've been saying they have made mostly very bad decisions for decades & I believe the constant stream of media we hear about bungled implementations, budget blowouts, agency heads misleading Ministers, and the generally woeful state of pub-serv tech supports my assertions. I think I understand what the decision makers got wrong. 1/n

If anybody did a fake job interview with me and got access to my work laptop, they'd get access to some danke memes not much else. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/binance-says-fake-job-interview-led-to-63-billion-crypto-heist/

Is there a way to install software in 2026 without it being all rootkits?

@ArneBab @resuna @fogti @ketanjoshi85 it's so bizarre how these people whose one job is like, knowing their way around money, just keep not stopping to think to themselves "wait, won't all this money we spend on training/hardware/compute end up costing more than just hiring the top experts in the world and ask them to build something pristine, what's up with that?"

i get that compute is the (or at least it would be on a small scale) more predicable, more deterministic investment, and business types like solving problems with money (if the only tool you have is a hammer...), and therefore problems you can solve by just throwing more money at things. but are they really so dense, so centered on getting everything their way, so fundamentally incurious about things as to not notice that the hype just doesn't quite add up? unfortunately for all of us, it seems so.

the hype bubble is going to cast a very long shadow, that is so much larger than the bubble itself.

@fesshole No kinkshame here, but you may need probiotics or something.

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@chris @kboyd

What I did was create a symlink at the top of the directory to GMT-8, because I want PST - and they took away that. (They also took away the UTC offsets, sigh.)

You could do the same, to GMT-7.

Which is exactly what PCT will be.

@ai6yr FWIW:

"There is no warning or heads-up. Google is apparently doing this without any kind of prompt."

Below is the email I received almost a month ago.

The "learn more" link at the bottom leads here: https://support.google.com/android/answer/7521240

Sounds super gross (as you'd expect from Google), but they did give an un-proofread heads-up about their grossness.

@mia Finally, a sweetened breakfast cereal for me!

@r_alb Just be a little Amish, you know, for the species.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell One of the most horrifying conversations I had, back before 2020, was with an extremely, extremely religious woman, after I seriously asked her about the rape/grab-her-p*** episodes, and she was "god works in mysterious ways, he forgives those who sin". Anyway, I disengaged with that ridiculousness and will have nothing more to do with those people.

(which is a different flavor from the so-called Christian people who saw those kinds of those things as DESIRABLE in a leader, indicative of their power... i.e. in their mind, a GOOD leader for them is one who can rape/abuse women, etc. because it shows how much power they have... and they wanted to be on the side of that power. My read of some of the men was "oh, I wish I could be like that, abuse/have any woman I wanted, I'd do that if I were as powerful as this guy I am going to elect") 🤢