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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The FBI’s search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, GA, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-fulton-county-voting-records-search-warrant?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #FBI #Georgia #Election #Democracy #Vote

ProPublica

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn

The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
Karel 'Clock' K.
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@clock@f.cz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@ProPublica In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".

I can imagine a programming of the system like this:

if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure

https://english.radio.cz/interior-ministry-advising-voters-not-rely-solely-digital-ids-amid-technical-8864656

https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures

Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?

In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Some tags may be according to my opinion:

#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection

Czech eDoklady Crash: A Beginner's Guide to Digital ID Failures

The recent failure of the Czech eDoklady app during parliamentary elections highlights the challenges of digital identity systems. Discover the key issues an...
Radio Prague International

Interior Ministry advising voters not to rely solely on digital IDs amid technical glitches

Interior Ministry advising voters not to rely solely on digital IDs amid technical glitches
Biometric Update | Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers

Czech parliamentary elections hit by digital ID app failure

A slew of technical problems prevented users from using the eDoklady electronic ID system for voting during the recent 2025 parliamentary elections.
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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
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Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the federal government’s ongoing investigations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kevin-moncla-election-researcher-fulton-county-georgia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Georgia #FBI #Election #Voting #Law #USPolitics #Vote

ProPublica

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia

Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the federal government’s ongoing investigations.
Karel 'Clock' K.
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@clock@f.cz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@ProPublica In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".

I can imagine a programming of the system like this:

if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure

https://english.radio.cz/interior-ministry-advising-voters-not-rely-solely-digital-ids-amid-technical-8864656

https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures

Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?

In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Some tags may be according to my opinion:

#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection

Czech eDoklady Crash: A Beginner's Guide to Digital ID Failures

The recent failure of the Czech eDoklady app during parliamentary elections highlights the challenges of digital identity systems. Discover the key issues an...
Radio Prague International

Interior Ministry advising voters not to rely solely on digital IDs amid technical glitches

Interior Ministry advising voters not to rely solely on digital IDs amid technical glitches
Biometric Update | Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers

Czech parliamentary elections hit by digital ID app failure

A slew of technical problems prevented users from using the eDoklady electronic ID system for voting during the recent 2025 parliamentary elections.
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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that DHS rushed a revamped tool to check voters’ citizenship into use while it was still adding data.

As a result, the tool has made persistent mistakes, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Vote #Election #DHS #Texas #Missouri #Data #Law #USPolitics

ProPublica

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.

The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
Karel 'Clock' K.
Karel 'Clock' K.
@clock@f.cz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@ProPublica In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".

I can imagine a programming of the system like this:

if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure

https://english.radio.cz/interior-ministry-advising-voters-not-rely-solely-digital-ids-amid-technical-8864656

https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures

Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?

In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Some tags may be according to my opinion:

#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection

Czech eDoklady Crash: A Beginner's Guide to Digital ID Failures

The recent failure of the Czech eDoklady app during parliamentary elections highlights the challenges of digital identity systems. Discover the key issues an...
Radio Prague International

Interior Ministry advising voters not to rely solely on digital IDs amid technical glitches

Interior Ministry advising voters not to rely solely on digital IDs amid technical glitches
Biometric Update | Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers

Czech parliamentary elections hit by digital ID app failure

A slew of technical problems prevented users from using the eDoklady electronic ID system for voting during the recent 2025 parliamentary elections.
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@wulfric@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Many years ago, I started publishing maps, tokens, and adventures for TTRPGs. Every now and again I poke at some of them to see if I can rekindle some of the creativity (most of it has been crushed out of me). Today I was reminded of one of the first sets I created Festhall Frivolity. It featured a tavern/festhall map with a lower level and escape tunnels along with a collection of male and female companion tokens (PG). This set and most of my other work can be found on Ko-Fi, Roll20 Marketplace, and DriveThruPRG which are all linked in my profile. I had big idea once.

Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/s/5e2806ea0f

Roll20: https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/2375/festhall-frivolity

#VTT #TTRPG #Creativity #Failure

Roll20

Festhall Frivolity - Play on the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop

Nothing raises the spirits after a long adventure like a trip to the local festhall. Have a few drinks, watch the shows, maybe find a companion or two. The Festhall Frivolity set offers the tokens ...
Ko-fi

Festhall Frivolity - WolvesbaneManor's Ko-fi Shop

Nothing raises the spirits after a long adventure like a trip to the local festhall. Have a few drinks, watch the shows, maybe find a companion or two...
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@wulfric@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Many years ago, I started publishing maps, tokens, and adventures for TTRPGs. Every now and again I poke at some of them to see if I can rekindle some of the creativity (most of it has been crushed out of me). Today I was reminded of one of the first sets I created Festhall Frivolity. It featured a tavern/festhall map with a lower level and escape tunnels along with a collection of male and female companion tokens (PG). This set and most of my other work can be found on Ko-Fi, Roll20 Marketplace, and DriveThruPRG which are all linked in my profile. I had big idea once.

Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/s/5e2806ea0f

Roll20: https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/2375/festhall-frivolity

#VTT #TTRPG #Creativity #Failure

Roll20

Festhall Frivolity - Play on the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop

Nothing raises the spirits after a long adventure like a trip to the local festhall. Have a few drinks, watch the shows, maybe find a companion or two. The Festhall Frivolity set offers the tokens ...
Ko-fi

Festhall Frivolity - WolvesbaneManor's Ko-fi Shop

Nothing raises the spirits after a long adventure like a trip to the local festhall. Have a few drinks, watch the shows, maybe find a companion or two...
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do It

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/you-had-one-job-why-twenty-years-of-devops-has-failed-to-do-it

#HackerNews #DevOps #Failure #DevOps #Evolution #Technology #Trends #Software #Development

Honeycomb

“You Had One Job”: Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do it

Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about?
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us

https://medium.com/lets-code-future/microservices-killed-our-startup-monoliths-wouldve-saved-us-4ebadf584a6d

#HackerNews #Microservices #Monoliths #Startup #Failure #SoftwareArchitecture #TechLessons

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure

https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53917/britains-railway-privatization-was-an-abject-failure

#HackerNews #Railway #Privatization #Abject #Failure #Transport #Policy #Railways #UK

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@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Data protection and security in Europe, a failure of intent and actions

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/eu-gdpr-data-law-us-tech-giants-digital

#GDPR #Europe #Failure #Vassalage #Deregulation #VonLeyden #It #Security #Privacy

the Guardian

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
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@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Data protection and security in Europe, a failure of intent and actions

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/eu-gdpr-data-law-us-tech-giants-digital

#GDPR #Europe #Failure #Vassalage #Deregulation #VonLeyden #It #Security #Privacy

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The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Linnix – eBPF observability that predicts failures before they happen

https://github.com/linnix-os/linnix

#HackerNews #Linnix #eBPF #observability #predictive #failure #technology #monitoring

GitHub

GitHub - linnix-os/linnix: eBPF-powered Linux observability with AI incident detection. Apache-2.0 licensed.

eBPF-powered Linux observability with AI incident detection. Apache-2.0 licensed. - linnix-os/linnix
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Learning from failure to tackle hard problems

https://blog.ml.cmu.edu/2025/10/27/learning-from-failure-to-tackle-extremely-hard-problems/

#HackerNews #Learning #from #failure #to #tackle #hard #problems #failure #learning #problem-solving #growth #mindset #resilience

Machine Learning Blog | ML@CMU | Carnegie Mellon University

Learning from Failure to Tackle Extremely Hard Problems

This blog post is based on the work BaNEL: Exploration Posteriors for Generative Modeling Using Only Negative Rewards. Tackling Very Hard Problems The ultimate aim of machine learning research is to push machines beyond human limits in critical applications, including the next generation of th
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@jasondmoss@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

The first is that as a product class, “AI” is a failed technology. I don’t think it’s controversial to suggest that LLMs haven’t measured up to any of the lofty promises made by their vendors ...In other words, we’re some three years into the hype cycle, and LLMs haven’t met any markers of success we’d apply to, well, literally any other technology.

@beep #AI #Hype #Failure
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/

Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
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@jasondmoss@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

The first is that as a product class, “AI” is a failed technology. I don’t think it’s controversial to suggest that LLMs haven’t measured up to any of the lofty promises made by their vendors ...In other words, we’re some three years into the hype cycle, and LLMs haven’t met any markers of success we’d apply to, well, literally any other technology.

@beep #AI #Hype #Failure
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/

Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
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@janriemer@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

why getting it wrong is the whole point. - by The Ash Files

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=CeMhzOOJ-4o
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMhzOOJ-4o)

#Poetry#Wisdom#Failure#Mistake#Philosophy#Inspiration

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@janriemer@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

why getting it wrong is the whole point. - by The Ash Files

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=CeMhzOOJ-4o
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMhzOOJ-4o)

#Poetry#Wisdom#Failure#Mistake#Philosophy#Inspiration

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