Electronics are superior to paper for many tasks but voting for your share of representation in government ain’t one of them. Without indentifying who voted for who (red flag) and verifying it then you can only hope the software was counting properly at run time and not subverted. You can watch people miscount paper in real-time and call them out.

RIP

A party that won’t fix the issue of FPTP with a proportional voting system are the ones who do not want my vote over other parties. Perhaps you too should speak to your MP about that, instead of blaming me for others getting into power. I will no longer vote for who I don’t want to merely keep another party out. Deal with it.

It is true that paper ID can be forged but where it differs is the inability to do it at such a large scale compared to electronic. Slightly different results can be attributed to human error as it is very difficult to change a single paper vote when other parties are watching. It’s impossible to have confidence in a black box electronic system (even if the code and machine were auditable, who’s to ssy what it’s actually doing at run-time when may users have access to it).

Software is written by humans and humans make mistakes, therefore software contains mistakes. You could perhaps argue electronic ID could be difficult to copy but the mere suggestion of a bug should push over the idea of it being impossible.

Perfection is the enemy of good.

I would write to my MP that I would vote for any other party to make it clear this is an issue. I am not saying all other parties are adcAequally good.

It’s difficult to tell if you’re being sincere when you phrase what I see as a problem of mass surveillancep&r

It’s probably time I should get off my ass and write to my Labour representative saying I’m voting for any other party until they repeal this (and the “online safety act”).

I hate social media but I hate “papers, please” to use the web even more.

It is imperative you can vote without others knowing how you voted (at least here in the UK…). Electronic voting is inferrior to paper when it comes to trustworthness of recording an anonymous vote, counting the result and preventing mass vote fraud.

We already have a hardcopy ID to travel internationally or ID to drive vehicles. The risks of an electronic ID being easily copied would have to get me visiting other solar systems or driving a time machine before I considered it. Something tells me the paper options would continue working at first but eventually this idea will be forced on people.

UK assuming everyone online is a child unless they are willing to have their passport leaked.

Who is there to agree with - the car is my property. All they own is the copyright to distribute copies of the software. Imagine a disclaimer on the front page of your copy of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Their legal claim will be the bullshit 1201 of the DMCA preventing you from breaking a digital lock on your own property to “rip out that first page”.

Losing “don’t be evil” motto wasn’t already tossing out the moral compass?

That sucks. Hopefully something can change that :/

I’m hoping GNU Taler takes off.

Only when standards are not at their highest? If so, that wouldn’t look good.

I was not aware that could be a problem (had a debit card £ as a teen when online buying/downloading games started).

Never liked gift cards. Money you can only use in one place, and you don’t even save any money when buying it.

Does the “following orders” defense work sometimes?

Good luck to him

When you’re in control of the software you can decided what it does: what data should be sent back (if any). Here a server hoster may refuse you if you do not collect data but that’s a much harder sell when all users are in control.

[Even harder when the server code is also freed, and anyone can host it]

Another reason games need to be open source! 🫤

I still care about video games very much but the industry suffers from growing bad incentives. Stop Killing Games is merely the start for me - I want games to catch up with other software and start respecting user’s software freedoms.

Is that Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy?

I treat “AI” as if it isn’t conscious btw, I’m arguing you cannot ever know.

We could create an Android that acts so much like a human we would feel emotionally compelled to not do it harm but remain unaware if it can actually suffer.