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”

Time for an anti-dog moat, I’d say. Full of robot sharks.

Okay, but this can’t go through doors on its own either unless it brings an arm buddy.

I don’t find that scarier than the cheap suicide quad copters we’ve seen in Ukraine.

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…

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.

The one thing they are right about IMO is that voting machines are dangerous, useless garbage that endangers the integrity of the election protests.

The way they used them to do so wasn’t on my list, but still.

EDIT: Wow, so many downvotes. Remember when these concerns were held by mostly left wing techy people? You don’t have to love them now because Trump hates them/uses their presence to spread FUD. The fact that that works should be a strike against having them, FFS! You might think they are fine now but to regular people they are still opaque and scary.

“What should we do to get more people working in the health sector?”

“Better pay and more manageable shifts!”

“Roll back privatization to shift the focus to sustainability over profits!”

“I’d just enslave the youth again.”

[Employee 1& 2 get defenestrated for a change]

It isn’t always deliberate, I can guarantee you that.

@4am@lemm.ee already explained most of it, Bitlocker comes into play because the recovery environment can be booted without needing to provide the recovery key for Bitlocker, the vulnerability that is being patched additionally allows bypassing the need to log into it.

That said, Microsoft frequently disables Bitlocker anyway to do OS updates, it really only works if you enable the additional pin feature.

In a healthy marketplace, these would be fireable offenses. Regrettably, the marketplace is far from healthy — Microsoft has the government locked in as a customer, so the government’s options for forcing change at Microsoft are limited, at least in the short term.

And that’s why nothing will happen to MS, except maybe line go down a bit. But then line will go up again so it’s all good.

Kinda annoyed by articles like this making it sound like security wasn’t always an afterthought at MS though. It’s just that it’s even worse with everything being forced online to push SaaS revenue.

Them just quietly throwing the towel when it comes to Bitlocker getting circumvented on Windows 10 because the recovery partition is too small is only the tip of that shitberg.

As long as decision makers will flip their shit when they can’t have PowerPoint and Outlook the company will just keep on trucking’

You are making it sound like China and its large corporations weren’t also very interested in profits and market domination.