Lukineus

You don't. You take the NIST reference material and put it through your machine and compare your machine's results with the NIST results.

The issue here (IMO) is that they aren't using "police powers" to get this information. They're just buying it like any other corporate entity.

... without Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Insert keys ...

My laptop has Home/End/PgUp/PgDn as the Fn function on the Arrow keys, and its actually really good. So good I've actually setup other machines with the same shortcuts wherever I can.

A former work computer of mine (a Lenovo, too!) wouldn't boot one day. After some time trying to figure out the issue I discovered I'd left a (non-bootable) USB drive attached to the machine. Removed the drive and it booted fine.

Having said all that, this comment is all anecdotal, much like yours.

I wish there were something that opens the windows automatically at the right time to keep the heat* and humidity out.

The latter part of your problem is a solved one. Weather forecasts and local conditions (from your own indoor/outdoor sensors) for the weather, heat capacity and permeability could be hardcoded or via helpers, cigarette smoke via air quality sensors. All of these can be integrated with Home Assistant.

All that is left is something to physically open/close the window, which should also be a solved problem.

Code is speech.

Not all code. From the linked article:

However, the court cautioned that not all software could be considered expressive, and thus not all source code would necessarily be protected.

"NVIDIA agreed to a cease-and-desist order and to pay a $5.5 million penalty."

Cost of doing business.

Here in Australia, ballots are (initially) counted at the place they were cast. Every ballot issued has a corresponding (but unlinkable) person on the roll (electors are crossed off the roll prior to a ballot being issued). The count of names crossed corresponds to the number of ballots issued which will correspond to the number of ballots counted at the end of the day. Virtually impossible to "insert" a ballot as then your final count would exceed ballots issued.

As the count is completed at the polling place, of which there are multiple per electorate, the total number of votes is substantially lower than 43,000 even, and so the % accuracy is much higher. No publicised figure (that I know of) for how many "missing" ballots there can be before questions are raised, but I suspect its in the single digit range. Ballots are generally counted a couple of times but, even more if there's any ballots missing.

If you're going to have a paper trail for an electronic system, then why not just use the paper system?

It's like there's a pro-electronic movement that's looking for every excuse to move to electronic...

Ok, so we go electronic. We put in all these extra checks and balances to account for it's downsides. It runs well. People start questioning the need for the checks and balances, since it's so full-proof. So we remove the checks and balances. <anakin-fun-begins.gif> <shocked-pikachu.gif>

For the people that complain about the staffing requirements for a paper-based election: it's a feature, not a bug. The sheer number of people involved make it virtually impossible to rig an election.

The issue is verification - how do you verify the elctronic count was accurate? And if you're going to manually count it to verify the electronic count, then why have the electronic count in the first place?

Some touchpads also support gesture scrolling.

Wouldn't 06/05/2022 00:00 GMT be 05/05/2022 16:00 PST due to the DD/MM (GMT) MM/DD (PST) notation swap

Same, but I switched a while ago to using Syncthing for the database instead of cloud storage.