It is never as simple as just some paper ballots. But we have a bigger problem. It's a problem at scale. We have all those issues because we do not have enough experts to run all the voting locations at once. The observers need to understand the rules and their rights. The official needs to do so, too. The work of an expert is not scalable, because he cannot be at all places at once.

However, an expert who audits the software is very scalable. One expert can find issues everywhere.

Turns out, my Android version is too old. I can only use pass keys stored in google. It doesn't support using them from another provider. Need a newer version.

The argument that TOTP could be entered in the wrong domain... Nope, my password manager wouldn't propose my TOTP on the wrong domain. Hence, that is solvable. But if I wanted, I could still do it. Sure, I can be phished. That's my risk. But I can also log into a domain who has moved, or far more likely, use the password manager to fill out the 3rd party android app for that service.

Yea, that article did not convince me a single bit, the original article convinced me a whole lot.

On an unrelated note, an article of how to rent a VPS in China would be interesting :)

I have nothing against directly implementing this in C or just writing markdown files and have the auto-translated into HTML.

I just don't like his arguments about it must be fast to recompile everything. I am writing this comment, and this is going to take me a few minutes. After all, I am thinking about what I am writing, typing it out, thinking some more. And then, the deploy is the thing that go the author? Really? Time to server is an important metric?

Let's be real, nothing would be lost if it took 5 minutes. He would send it off and 5 minutes later, his phone buzzes, notifying him that it is done.

Alright, he found a way to do it in under 10 seconds. Cool. Good for him. Now that it is built, there is nothing bad about it. I just don't see how this was ever an important KPI.

So, I am with you. We shouldn't learn the pronunciation of 200 different languages. If Kirchhoff's laws sound like Captain Kirk, who the fuck cares. Different languages pronounce stuff differently.