(if your id is stolen and you arduously go about getting a new one)

I thought I had lost mine once and got a new SSN card, they don’t give you a new number, it’s the same number

My least favorite is when someone sends a chat message like “Hi, can I ask you a question?” and you just know the reason they didn’t come out and say it is because they want to put you on the spot so you’re obligated to respond to be polite

One method could be to have a replay system, public state snapshots, and publicly logged inputs. Servers could randomly audit federated peers by replaying small segments of their logs, and defederate/broadcast that there is a problem if the end state doesn’t match. This would require them to be running the same code and not use arbitrary mods, but different settings would still be possible.

From talking to someone involved in local government software, it seemed to me like there is a push in the opposite direction from that; they want and are moving towards offloading as much as possible to third party software vendors.

Normally, offloading cryptography to a different hardware module could be seen as a good thing — but with nonfree software, it can only spell trouble for the user…

Could someone explain more about this? What about TPM + proprietary OS is bad? What are the risks here?

Because during bad times the ones that make bad decisions don’t survive or at very least are removed from positions of power.

The ones best equipped to get in positions of power during “bad times” are bad people willing to put their ambitions above basic human decency.

The idea that violent and traumatic environments lead to strong people making good choices always seemed pretty stupid to me.

If you think about it the fact most people put themselves in a situation where they are a small lapse of attention away from death on a regular basis is pretty insane

Coming from Reddit, the very existence of this thread is a breath of fresh air. That there are mod logs at all to be able to document this, that there is a place where it can be posted that is not under control of the mods being criticized, is an enormous improvement over an unaccountable centralized platform.