It's illegal on licensed HAM channels, but legal on unlicensed channels like the 2.4 and 5Ghz ranges
Don't ask me why the distinction still remains
Natanael
joined 8 months ago
Not if you're defying safety regulations.
Tools that decrease accuracy should not be provided to government employees
Plastic powder based toner, yes. But there's multiple types of pigment, not just that
I'm using it without updates
Dual wield and use one to surf
They can push for things like altered definitions and thresholds, etc, even if they're not authorized to pick their own numbers directly, etc.
A discoverable non-banned account. Not from "ghost accounts". If a server creates a massive amount of accounts to use them to vote, you can see that a small server has a disproportionate amount of registered accounts too, which probably will be otherwise inactive. Then you can reject votes from that server.
The very very short TLDR is that anonymization is very hard, but there's auditable cryptographic voting schemes which preserves anonymity by using anonymous cryptographic commitments and one of a bunch of different techniques to count encrypted votes (homomorphic encryption, threshold encryption, etc).
You could set it up so you know which server each set of votes comes from but not which users on the server. You could also make it prove each vote comes from one real account and that no account voted twice. You could even make use of commitments plus ZKP to prove banned accounts can't vote!
It sounds complicated because it is complicated. And somewhat inefficient. But it's possible. And it would be fully encrypted and anonymous voting.
They're implementing E2E encrypted social stuff. Voting privacy and encryption is linked.
Especially when you have users across multiple servers and both want voting privacy AND being able to deal with vote manipulation. You need stuff like pseudonymous commitments per account attested to by the hosting instance, etc. The only thing that's simpler but still private is having instances just digitally sign a total vote tally, which also means you can't detect vote manipulation on other servers at all.
The post you replied to comes from a different instance than your own, so does my answer. When you're logging into your instance, the view of their and mine posts are both remote to you.
Sometimes in Mastodon you'll only see the specific post that you're opening a link to directly, not other posts before or after. This tries to fix that.