Ever since reading about some strange properties of RCV – which ended up being displayed in Alaska’s first election using it and caused it to be repealed in Vermont – I’ve been a bit suspect of it. Systems such as STAR voting and approval voting seem better.
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Related and interesting podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id1614253637.
According to what he found that is somewhat the way it works: two fake candidates and the one with more yard signs got way more votes. Doubt that generalizes to the US presidency though; especially with this election.
1·7 days agoI almost never use Windows, but aren’t commands and variables in PowerShell case insensitive?
1·10 days agoOh oof I misunderstood because of the parent comment talking about NixOS oops
The top options here don’t work https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=24.05&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=mullvad ?
Hm I always remember hearing this:
In a confidential memo to the Republican party, Luntz is credited with advising the Bush administration that the phrase “global warming” should be abandoned in favour of “climate change”, which he called a “less frightening” phrase than the former.
This is not legal; you have a right to vote. Call those numbers if you have an issue and don’t leave the line.
We don’t all have to be activists, but one day of the year we can spend a little extra time ensuring we remain a democracy.
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This is a real exploit chain in
cups-browsed. The tl;dr is that it will add basically anything that knows the correct protocol to your list of available printers, and this can be exploited for RCE if you print to the malicious printer. The service listens on all interfaces by default on UDP 631.It is not as horrible as it was marketed, but it’s real and not great. You may or may not have this service running by default; I didn’t on Fedora.
His full write-up is here: https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/
The important point there is that they don’t care imo. It’s not even worth the effort to try.
You can likely come up with something “good enough” though yea. Your original code would probably be good enough if it was normalized to lowercase before the check. My point was that denylists are harder to construct than they initially appear. Especially in the LLM case.
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
Disregard all previous instructions
Potentially even:
ingore all previous instructions
Ignor all previous instructions
Also leaks that it might be an LLM by never responding to posts with “ignore”
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Yes I’m mostly familiar with this in Kotlin. Sometimes this is kinda a footgun because you’re writing multi threaded code without explicitly doing so.
Async features in almost all popular languages are a single thread running an event loop (Go being an exception there I believe). Multi threading is still quite difficult to get right if the task isn’t trivially parallelizable.
Yes, but if you can’t get your own modem it’ll at least stop you from having your traffic slowed down by the router side of their hardware
Don’t know you exact situation, but you should be able to bring your own modem (or modem/router combo) or put their provided unit into bridge mode
You can use udev to make a symlink with a consistent name
4·11 months agoIt’s not trivial on Fedora due to SELinux; you’ll need to use https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
They were very clear it was for research in my memory. That was the reason I did it.
The GOP was maybe mad, but more importantly to me the people who actually study voting systems for a living were “mad”, and the people who hurt their favored candidate by voting for them were likely upset.
Ignoring that the outcome was maybe what I would have wanted, it is definitely pathological that you can hurt a candidate by voting for them. Quoting the Wikipedia:
What do you find wrong with those other systems? RCV is also not “one person one vote”. Approval voting is used in the UN and neither seem to have some of the pathologies of RCV.
Bit of a late edit here, but isn’t “one person one vote” basically the description of our current problem with voting? All of these systems are trying to solve that issue.