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Do you think it's impossible that there are undocumented folks living under false identities and/or stolen SSNs casting votes in elections? It's a yes or no question.

To put it another way, do you believe non-citizens in this country illegally (and thus already breaking the law), have some sort of deference when it comes to obeying election laws?

Thankfully we have the spry 45 year old election judges to oversee it all.

Is it your contention that if someone was an illegal immigrant as alleged, and in doing so able to pass a local government background check without arousing suspicion, someone wouldn't be able to outsmart some 80 year old election judge who is volunteering her time that would otherwise be spent watching reruns of Judge Judy?

The system is not as airtight as you purport it to be.

> And have you looked into the big employers, not Harriet Homeowner, but the meat packing plants, to see how carefully they examine documents?

The larger an employer's size, the more likely they are to do business with the federal government, which mandates the use of E-Verify.

One of the more egregious stories that made national news and captured the zeitgeist of this situation was the alleged illegal immigrant that was working as a sworn police officer in suburban Chicago:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-...

So given that this was allowed to happen, you want me to believe it's impossible for an illegal immigrant to cast a vote in an election? In Chicago? Where the dead people vote?

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-chicago...

> In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.

What do you propose that is better? VC-backed smartphone apps?

Aircraft have much better quality electronics than a $20 tabletop radio located some distance away by whoever is ripping the stream.

I know it seems like an insignificant detail, but it's a totally different OS with a completely different lineage!

It's not 'macOS'. The correct nomenclature is 'Mac OS'.

You're right, the world is better off having some Asian kid taking apart your junk and breathing in solder fumes with no protection, rather than you running a legacy box in your basement that uses some extra kWh per year.

After all, he probably won't live long enough to tell his grandkids stories about power-hungry hardware.

That reminds me, my homelab could use a SPARC box just because.

>Maybe the consulting section includes payments for programming work? Presumably at cheap rates, if so?

Have we reached the point on the timeline where we believe low-level operating system code should be acquired at "cheap rates"? While simultaneously, I assume, believing webshit cloud bollocks still demands top dollar?

Pure ragebait, location awareness existed pre-Teams in Lync/Skype/whatever.

Sounds like this was written by someone who thinks they're being sneaky by fucking off at work. They already know. Badge swipes and 1000 other ways.

They cheat and use busybox.

Meanwhile OpenBSD running all the default network services like sshd and smtpd uses < 32 MB RAM and that's with full ksh and real tools. That doesn't happen by accident.

The most compact, minimalist general purpose OS out there by far. Tiny memory footprint and loaded with network services built-in.

Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Debian refuses to install with less than 512MB RAM, the text only installer will choke with less than that, it's pathetic. That's a console-only install, no GUI.

They are all equally crap. I'm convinced the people designing collaboration tools don't have to use them on a daily basis.

I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee.

The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse.

Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult.

Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a few minutes?

It's believable when the industry has pivoted to pushing SaaS garbage in every place imaginable to the point that on-prem solutions don't exist anymore. Do you expect them to not use email either?

Remember, the industry told us we're in a 'zero trust' world now. The network perimeter is an anachronism.

OTOH you know damn well they keep the important stuff airgapped, in which case the title (and your predictable reaction) is just fanning the flames. It could very well be they 'breached' the receptionist's PC she uses to browse Facebook to pass the time.

If we follow the same pattern, iOS 27 and corresponding releases will be completely flat and look like Mac OS System 7. Chicago font wants to live another day.

Windows 8 got some serious hate back in the day, it had some sound ideas that were implemented poorly, but no one could deny it was lightweight. It had the smallest memory footprint of all the modern Windowses IIRC.

Appears to have also disabled that bot on HN that would be frantically posting [dupe] in all the other AWS outage threads right about now.

> For-profit companies cannot be in control of these mechanisms.

But they are not in control of Secure Boot.

Microsoft runs a root CA that is pre-installed on most PCs. It could have been Verisign or someone else, but MS made sense at the time, likely because they had additional code signing expertise.

You are free to delete these keys and/or install your own. If there wasn't preexisting infrastructure, Secure Boot would be DOA for most people.

I chuckled at his indignance over how these things are legal and how easily you can buy them. Chinese will sell you anything to make a buck. It's just business. You can go on Amazon right now and buy a high power 1kW FM transmitter, drop shipped, and set up a flamethrower pirate radio station on a rooftop of your choosing. The cherry on top is they are likely super low quality with crazy spurious emissions.

Of course the FCC will probably be up your ass in half an hour if you tried it; the point is the equipment is readily available in a few clicks, no questions asked.

Don't get me started on the instantly-blind-yourself-and-everyone-else lasers you can buy on eBay (they'll sell you matching counterfeit laser goggles too).

He told other people what to invent, all whilst leaving his Mercedes in the disabled parking spot.

That's an achievement.

>to pay developers less

Oh no, he only paid them $300k/year? How did they survive without selling their kidneys to the black market?

> This was not the case with the initial rollout of Secure Boot, it was combined with locked BIOS to lock PCs so that they could only boot Windows 8 on some devices. This was the case on Windows RT ARM machines from that era.

Okay, but, that was like 15 years ago, on some shitty first-run computers that no one bought. A failed first attempt. I've never met a single person that owned, or has ever used, a Windows RT device.

The world has moved on. But oddly continues to buy bootloader-locked iPhones and Androids by the bucketful.

Dwelling on the past isn't going to move us forward. Anyone pushing the "Secure Boot and TPM are evil" trope in 2025 is objectively a fool and should be ignored. Most don't even realize what a TPM does, they think it's some secret chip inserted by glowies into their computers to prevent them from running free software. No.

It helps that they have cheap hydro out the ass so you don't really care if you need heat pump auxiliary heat, it kind of inverts the equation:

Cost of electricity in Montreal: 8c/kWh

Boston: 47c/kWh

New York: 58c/kWh

Source: https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/compa...

Overall this isn't the W you think it is; New England still leads the nation in heating oil consumption by a large margin.

Nearly 2M households in New England heat their homes with oil (usually boiler, sometimes furnace). For those unfamiliar, a tanker truck comes by your house every couple of months and pumps diesel fuel into a tank down cellar, which literally gets burned like a flamethrower to boil water to heat your home. It's dirty but keeps your home toasty warm when it's -20 outside.

Maine in particular has very little natural gas infrastructure. Electric is impractical as New England winters are cold as balls and the houses are usually old and not that well insulated.

Melodramatic, and more importantly, wrong.

> People don’t realize there’s no real alternative

EtherPeek/OmniPeek has entered the chat

There were tools before Wireshark, and there will be tools after it's long gone. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist!

This is going to upset some, but the tech industry is full of delusional people that are completely out of touch with reality and the needs and struggles of everyday Americans.

I recently stumbled upon a YouTuber grousing about losing her six-figure tech job. She was in full freakout mode about budgeting etc. but something didn't seem quite right. Then she disclosed she's married, financially stable, husband still has a great job, etc.

It made me stop and think how there's people out there delivering groceries, putting on an apron, all so they don't have to switch to eating cat food by the end of the week.

OTOH ex-Googlers are worried they might be forced to switch to store-brand mineral water within weeks.

Or they can make the phone human-sized and not resort to software hacks to resolve poor ergonomics.

Commercial VPNs will go down as one of the greatest money-making schemes of the last decade. Outside of a few specific use cases their sales often rely on leveraging non-technical users' fear of what they don't fully understand.

I have non-technical friends and relatives that have fully bought into this and when I asked why they use a VPN I got non-specific answers like "you need it for security", "to prevent identity theft", or my personal favorite: "to protect my bank accounts".

Not a single person has said "I pay to route my traffic through an unknown intermediary to obscure its origin" or "I installed new root certificates to increase my security."

Yes.

I have a disability and traipsing around the developing world just isn't something I care to do anymore.

My personal situation aside, I was aghast that a company would move its operations to an unregulated slum just to eek out a few extra dollars of profit (under the guise of 'globalization'). Whatever facility they closed in the US or UK suffered for this and I didn't want to be a part of that.

> They'd sit out on the street in the hot sun, all day long, banging open the batteries with hammers, dust and toxic stuff flying everywhere. Nasty shit, zero concern for health.

I noped out of a job offer recently where there was mention of occasional travel to India. Out of curiosity I pulled up Google Street View on the conpany's India office and this is basically what I saw. Not for me.