I just want clearer guidance on how to change my face and fingerprints when they get compromised.

The joke writes itself.

The one by ZXing is safe but has been flooded with bad reviews by idiots blaming it going by the name. The bad app(le) had been taken out by the time the Ars article came out.

It is a shame that we only have something like 150 years of research showing that "crunch times" actually hurt net productivity, not just quality, and don't actually get things done sooner than having people get enough rest so they are performing at their best. As a result of the comparatively scarce entire body of literature in this field, all of it publically available, the information needed to prevent disasters like this has been extremely hard to get, being available only to anyone who can read, anyone who has ever worked, or anyone who has ever actually met a human being.

No, we've had pandemics before, we've studied outcomes, and lockdowns aren't exactly free, but they generally reduce deaths. There weren't 100k deaths "caused by the lockdown". Furthermore, there's lots of non-lockdown things, like social distancing and mask wearing, that would have helped hugely, but weren't done.

Mostly, though... If you want to claim that there's extra deaths from lockdowns, don't offer speculative narratives and how you feel like lockdowns might lead to deaths. Offer real, solid, numbers. Epidemiologists have been writing about the direct and indirect effects of policies like this for over a century. We have studies and graphs from the 1918 pandemic, after all. So on one side, we have basically all the science that's been done in this field, regardless of political affiliations or country, for more than a century, and on the other hand, we have a small population of people, more than 95% of whom are right-wing, who are making claims contrary to that science and who offer no actual evidence, just speculations and vague handwaving appeals to "extra orphans from the lockdowns" without actually justifying or supporting the claim that the lockdowns kill people.

Also, no, covid's mortality rate isn't really "more in-line with the common flu". I know that was a popular thing to say early on, but it's stupid. Yes, it looks low if you disregard all the people who have other health problems, or who are old, and so on... But you know what? If you want to do that, you have to also look only at flu death rates excluding all the people who have other health problems, or who are old... And then you run into the problem that it's really hard to measure that death rate because it's so low. (I've never actually personally had anyone tell me about someone they know dying from "flu" who wasn't old and unhealthy to begin with. I've long since lost count of the number of people I know who know someone who died from covid, and not all the dead people were old or unhealthy.)

I think they're saying it because it's true, and was commented on in the news back when it happened, and specifically, the administration required hospitals to report this stuff to HHS, who could be trusted to fudge the figures for him, rather than to the CDC, who kept maliciously telling the truth even when it looked bad for him. That's one of the major functions of the "executive branch" -- running all the federal agencies. And, in some cases, running them badly.

So, in a way, you're right. The information is "withheld" from the CDC, so that political appointees in HHS can nudge things to try to make it look more like it's not as bad a disaster as it is.

Yeah. We had to postpone an "elective" surgery for four months, and that's four months during which my spouse couldn't walk most days and was in screaming agony at least one day a week. But hey, technically "elective".

They'd have to have a lot fewer deaths to catch up given how badly that first pass went, and as of yet, nothing suggests that we, or they, are even particularly close to the number of previously-infected people you'd need to develop herd immunity, and we're still not totally sure it even provides lasting immunity, although we have good reason to believe it provides at least some resistance for a while.

Getting to those kinds of numbers would require a lot more infections than we currently have evidence for, which would probably imply a lot more deaths.

I think you misunderstand. There are no specific tools you need to parse conventional log files, you can use any tool you want, but most Unix people will be familiar with, and have, the standard tools. The point, though, is that those are the tools that work on absolutely any text stream, which means that they, or any other workflow that works on text streams, can be used on log files. With systemd, you need an extra tool to extract the information into a text stream in addition to whatever tooling you need on the text stream.

Your point about --since/--until is actually a good point, but the first part is just incoherent. You'd have been more persuasive without including it.

You can have ballots without being able to identify who cast them, which is to say, people can vote without being targeted for their votes if the wrong people get access to the ballots.

Vote fraud is, by and large, very close to a complete non-issue in the US. There's a handful of people doing individual-scale vote fraud, probably, and they seem to get caught, and larger-scale things are vanishingly rare, because nearly everyone agrees that this would be bad, and they're on the lookout for it. So, yeah, we have definitely had some known cases, but... Chicago's big illicit voting problems were in the 1960s, and the reason that's still the go-to example is that it's one of the only ones we've had.

Vote suppression is at least as effective and much easier to get away with.

Any of the alternatives like ranked-choice or strict approval would produce better results, in general. And we might yet get there some day; ranked choice voting is actually very popular with people, but not as popular with political parties.

(You can, BTW, safely disregard the surreal conspiracy theories about how much fraud there is, or you can spend a bit of time reading careful writeups of them, but honestly, once you see the list of Minnesota cities presented as evidence of fraud in Michigan, you sort of know what the quality of work you're looking at is going to be.)

Do you have an instance of such an allegation made by an actual identifable person, in front of a judge, asserting that such a thing happened? Because "people submit claims to anonymous online forms" or "people post things on the Internet" are very different sources. Read the actual transcripts; even Trump's lawyers are pretty unwilling to say that they know of any actual fraud. An action like what you describe would be egregiously bad -- and would, one expects, be reported on by the poll watchers (the actual legit trained ones from both parties who are always present during these operations). As opposed to the "observers" who are partisan hacks and regularly report on things like "absentee ballot appears to have been mailed to a person in another city, then counted in this city", which is basically just what "absentee" means.

The complaint you cite with all the "affadavits", the claims were thrown out because the Trump lawyers ran an anonymous online submission form, then removed from it everything that they could prove was definitively false, and submitted all the rest. No verification, no evidence that the people making the reports were even present, let alone observing, no one who was willing to testify to things under oath. Those aren't meaningful evidence, and of course the court threw them out entirely.

Well, if the problem's going to get fixed, either you're going to fix it, or the person who created it and doesn't think it's a problem is going to fix it. One question is what would be fair. Another question is what is likely to actually happen.

Among my friends and family, who have a couple of Switches and play them moderately often:

We've had 10 joycons repaired so far and have at least 4 more that need repairs. Time before repair becomes necessary can be a couple of months to several months, but I don't think we've had any in regular use not require repair.

Complete and perfect solution that makes everyone happy instantly:

Don't automatically crop images.

This gives everyone what they want, which is to post the image they posted instead of a different image.

Their claim that there is "ample time" to develop responses seems inconsistent with the fact that we're already losing immense amounts of life and property to the current amount of climate change.