"User funds are safe" followed by "I expect all user funds will be fully covered."

It seems to me that at least one - or both - of these sentences isn't right.

Came here to say "kinda" the same. Every one of the problems stated aren't internet's fault. Its hypercorporativism and late stage capitalism taken to its most extreme ends.

You're correct. It was my mistake and I stand corrected: it's not open source.

But I wouldn't say it's not open to public scrutiny. There are several audits during each electoral cycle and around 100 entities are authorized to participate.

There's also the TPS (Public Security Test) to which any citizen can sign up, as long as they propose some test.

Finally, in 2022, researchers from three universities (USP, Unicamp and UFPE) were authorized to access to the source code in their own labs in order to test it and search for vulnerabilities.

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Also, I think it's valid to say:

- Brazil has a centralized federal electoral organization tied to its justice system, known as TSE (Superior Electoral Court).
- All voters have a unique voter ID with biometry.
- We have fully electronic voting machines that run Linux and an open source voting system that gets constantly scrutinized by civil and parties organizations.
- The voting machines are not connected to the internet during voting.
- When voting ends, the machines are sealed and transported to local TSE's rooms, where they're connected to it's central server which then counts and sums all the votes.
- Around 150 million votes are counted in under 3 hours.

This election was marked by the huge polarization between Lula (center-left) and Bolsonaro (far-right). There were also a number of low-polling right-wing candidates that polled, in summation, around 15% before the first round.

Then, when the first round results came in, we learned that most of these 15%, seeing that Lula could win in the first round, rush toward Bolsonaro, giving him an unexpected edge (). Also, there was around 21% abstention and when all things are considered together, 30% of the voters (almost 50 million people!) didn't choose any of the two main contenders. Here are the results:

Flávio Bolsonaro - 56.104.503 voters
Lula - 53.879.538 voters
Abstentions/Other candidates - aprox. 50.000.000 voters

For the runoff, between Bolsonaro's followers, there was a clear "it's in the bag" feeling, while Lula's campaign aggressively aimed in voter turnout and convincing the more moderate right-wing voters that didn't vote for Bolsonaro in the first round.

And it paid off for Lula. In the last days of campaign, the mobilization for voter turnout was incredibly huge. Here's the final results:

Lula - 64.256.232 votes
Flávio Bolsonaro - 59.826.041 votes

This is mostly a temperate/cold climate countries' problem. The reason is Cavendish being by far the most favorable species to export, due to it's durability during transport and on the shelf.

Where I live (a huge producing region), stores will have something around 5 varieties of them according to the season of the year.

Uber is currently present in more than 15,000 cities worldwide. Every one of these countries with its own quirks, rules, laws, tariffs...

Which is surely extremely challenging and demands lots of workforce. A huge part of these I believe aren't even programmers.

So in the end, around 30,000 people are only about 2 for each city. It doesn't really look that much.

I have to agree with you. I'm am Apple user since early 2000s and I'm only on my third Mac. My wife swapped her iPhone last month just for the 2nd time since 2016.

Not to mention that in all of these cases, our previous devices were still up and running and we managed to sell them for a fair price.

Usually the people I hear claiming Apple devices are disposable never have really bought/used them.

Just to clarify: tapping and holding the center tab on Android previously opened up the voice search. Google rolled it out to the AI search in the last few months and it became default this August.

Yeah, it's the AI assistant. But, tbh, holding the tabs has had the voice search function on Android for a long time.

Maybe... just don't tap and hold it anymore?

I use AppleTV on my TCL TV without any problems. It's actually a much better experience than HBO, Disney and Prime. Only Netflix is better.

Sorry, I didn't specify: to foreigners.

I know in my country, people who are going to visit the US are being oriented to find and erase anything potentially controversial or even getting a new phone ahead of their travel and populating it with non-offensive stuff, so border officers don't find it suspicious for being too clean.

Of course they can't deny entry to US citizens, but I wonder if they can also claim the same and detain them somehow.

If you're from the US, you probably don't know this, but US agents may find a clean phone suspicious and deny entry by claiming you're hiding something.

Please, don't get it. Better yet, don't get any medicine. The rest of the world will be thankful.

Not, it's not. That's just one of the suppositions that needs to be tested.