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Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.

mass mail-in voting, which has the same downsides as online voting

What exactly do you mean, the same downsides?

Mail ballots require physical presence to tamper with, so if you have armed guards + security cameras watching the drop box, most tampering threats can be prevented, at the same time, no one knows who the voter really voted for since envelopes are sealed.

In contrast, internet connections are really easy to tamper with. Most people just blindly click past https warnings, and thats just the most basic attacks, there are more sophisticated attacks. Not to mention, you dont even need physical presense. Anyone, anywhere around the world can hack an online vote.

But don't assume this also works for android. I tested it on a Samsung phone and triggering the emergency call and expecting biometrics to be disabled, but I found out it does not disable biometrics, but you need to change a setting that enables a separate button to show up known as "Lockdown mode". You then bring up the power menu and tap the "Lockdown mode" button to disable biometrics.

Or you can force a reboot, press volume down + power button for approximately 10 seconds.

For android phones that aren't Samsung, it should be just holding the power button for 10 seconds.

Basically the standard operating procedure whenever you see law enforcement walking towards you, is that you should reach into pockets and press and hold the button combo to force a reboot. You don't even need to take it out of your pocket and its less noticible than taking the phone out of your pocket.

Patterns have less possible combinations than pins, and is easier to shoulder snoop than a pin. Edit: and also leaves more visible smudges from oils in your finger.

Also in older android versions (it might be changed by now) they used to store it in plain text.

Alpha-numeric passwords are the strongest, but is very inconveinient to most people so PIN is the second strongest and a good compromise between security and convienience.

Like people have commonly said, avoid using biometrics.

In addition:

If you dont clean your phone screen, the leftover oil residues left by your finger could reveal the passcode. So wipe (as in physically wipe) your phone screen every time after you enter your passcode.

If you suspect cameras to be around, try to obstruct the view from any potential cameras recoding you as you type your passcode.

Not to mention there are some exploits like Cellebrite has figured out. So even with those precautions, your data still might not be safe.

In short, I'd recommend that you dont rely on your phone's local encryption to protect your data.

Instead, encrypt with an open source program and upload the encrypted content to a cloud service that is hosted in a jurisdiction with good privacy protection laws (or alternatively, if you don't like the cloud, keep it in a hard drive / SSD hidden in a safe location). And then delete the data from your phone. Cant force you to reveal you data if they don't know what data exists.

Bruh, the US is becoming like China.

In China people are expected to prepay for treatment, even life-threatening emergency treatment. Its actually a common trope in Chinese TV drama that a poor person cannot afford an expensive emergency surgery and just so happens to have a relative/friend that became rich and they have to ask their rich relative/friend to pay for the surgery. When I left, its commonly understood that hospital emergency room can deny medical care if you do not pre-pay or show proof of insurance coverage (which most people do not have), I don't know what its like now, hopefully its different now.

Its not to say the US sending you a 6 digit bill for emergency care is great either, but at least in the US, they save your life first, then bankrupt you, in China, they just tell you to get the fuck out and let you die.

The US now asking people to pre-pay for healthcare is not a good sign, I fear they will eventually be asking for pre-payment even in life-threatening emergency situations.

People love to romanticize accelerationism until the civil war start and they begin starving.

Chemtrails! Obviously

/s

Its obviously a crack in the space-time continuum. The universe have been watching our elections and was disappointed on November 5. This is an obvious sign of the end times. Now drown in fear, you mortal being.

rumors have it have trump is planning to ~~sell~~ gift Alaska to russia. And he'll split up a red state to make up for the lost senate seats.

Dude... We have a convicted felon and anti-constitution insurrectionist in the highest office of the US. Crime rate just went back up. Dont forget all the hate crimes he'll inspire around the country. Murders might have gone down, but the many instances of racial harassment, that are most likely going to be unreported, will skyrocket. Police aren't gonna make a report until you've been injured enough to end up in the hospital.

Go on Lemmy and rant in an echo chamber.

Or alternatively. Continuing reading SCPs and hope I don't get creeped out this time. (Spoilers, I will get creeped out again)

(My favorite SCP is 2935 btw. Awesome read.)

Or watch youtube videos. Veritasium is good (they did have some sponsorship controversy in the past, keep that in mind)

I sometimes rewatch old Jacksepticeye videos for nostalgia.

Occasionally I check to see if theres any new movies or TV series to watch.

The last I watched is For All Mankind, an alt-history on the premise of "What if the USSR won the race to the moon?", very intriguing. Hoping they'll have a new season soon, there is still a lot of story to be wrapped up.

I also check to see if The Expanse got renewed, although at this point I doubt it ever will.

I'm honestly running out of things to do.

Maybe I should go outside lol... right into the toxic gasoline exhausts of the many cars passing by, which just reminds me of climate change and makes me depressed...

What do y'all even do? I'm constantly bored...

Covid broke our brains, literally.

Do y'all notice how people seem to have gotten more aggressive after covid.

Its like the Lead-Crime hypothesis, but Covid-Crime hypothesis