Nils

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[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure in your riding, but usually, they have different roles and experience level.

One important task is to keep everyone in check. If you reduce that number, the risks of different problems increases. Most recently this

There is a lot of propaganda around the world to discredit elections (usually by authoritarian regimes), so I do not think anyone will take the risk of reducing the number of poll workers.

Elections Canada describes all the roles and processes, from hiring, training, what to do before, during and after the voting day if you are interested in details. https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx


Sadly, we are a bit behind in technology and the costs can persist with electronic voting.

With in-person voting, either we do like Belgium with printing votes (I read people calling it "expensive pen"), or with air-gapped dedicated computers like in South America (the only thing that leaves is one of the storages and a printed sheet with the result of that location). There are the initial investment and we will still need the election workers.

On the other hand, with internet/remote voting, the initial investment in tech, security, and change management will be huge in our current state. You can reduce the numbers of workers with that, but now you will need more expensive people at every step to ensure a fair election.

Countries that uses any kind of electronic voting claim that it improved their elections considerably, including costs, but the upfront cost and the change in culture can scary some people.

(edit: fix typo)

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Be careful with where they store your data, they might be Canadian, but they might be storing your data in the USA and sharing it with USA companies. Read their terms.

I suggest using software that runs on your computer, like GenuTax, sadly it is windows only.

As far as I am aware, only a single online offer used to encrypt your data, but they removed it when they were bought by WealthSimple, so they could sell your data to third parties.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

What a terrible way to organize the session.

“What journalists do is they line up to wait for a question — one English, one French,” Le Couteur explained. “A number of those so-called reporters essentially tried to stack the deck and be there in line well ahead of the finish of the debate, so about 20 to 30 minutes ahead of it.”

Win who brings a tent the day before next time, +10 friends.

Now I understand the Beaverton post about bringing in 35 journalists.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If my memory does not fail me, there was research associating some kinds of threat and anxiety with conservative voters.

The politicians' playbook seems to cater to that kind of voter.

The conservative candidate that knocked on my door started saying how dangerous is a street nearby I walk daily. Most of his arguments were based on fear, and the culprit is always "the liberals". So that is definitely in their playbook.

Sadly for him, most of that information is easily accessible, like a map of crimes in the city, and his arguments fell short.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

https://canadiangamedevs.com/

There are a lot of studios, diverse size and genres. What is missing in the website is their pubishers.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Depends on the threat model and how long do you need the data.

Worked on a place long ago, that anything they needed to save offline from more than a few decades where stored in microfilm, the expectancy there where they would last 80 to 100 years.

Anything else was pretty much tape.

You also take in account the technology avaiability. The more complex is to use, harder will it be to reproduce in the future. Even with tapes, you might want to copy the data to another tape/recorder every decade or two, to keep it on par with the technology.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not really sure what is bold about it, pretty similar to the other parties but missing how they would measure their goals.

Another thing that bothers me is that they do not mention multi-unit homes, city density or collective work(unless they used terms I am not familiar).

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Same vibes as the guy that "fought" a Lion with Toilet paper.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dqrsp

When did vampires become vulnerable to crosses?

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

TIL Ground News is the new Raid.

Thanks for the video, very informative and entertaining.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This looks more like a tool for people working with "sentiment analysis" than to get the properly informed.


Not a trustworthy methodology.

https://ground.news/rating-system

They are based on the average rating of three independent news monitoring organizations: All Sides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias Fact Check. ...

...the analysis is done in the context of the U.S. political system.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I am not sure if you replied to the wrong thread, good for you that it works for your needs, but

My point is that GOG did not drop Linux support and instead partnered with another company. Not about the quality of the software.

  1. Gog waning Linux support is completely unrelated to Heroic
  2. Gog did not seek partnership
  3. Heroic devs just applied to a program that anyone can apply to.

That said, it is shady to inject links and not notify it on the release note or change log. I think there was a message on their mastodon at some point, and the implementation crashed for some people with more restrictive firewall on their network, there were some discussions on the issues page of their code repository.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gog stopped their own linux launcher and instead unofficially partnered

Stop spreading this nonsense.

Heroic added affiliated links to their software that anyone can apply for (without notifying the users at first).

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