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"Risked his life saving baby Harry"? When did that happen. Last time I looked he just fetched baby Harry out of the empty ruins of the Potter house. Or you mean risking that a brink lands in his head, doing nothing to Hagrids half-giant head?

Hagrid beat though. Better than the weirdo Snape, who was only bothered about people being murdered, when they got to the girl he got friendzoned by.

Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.

Nah, often software is stupidly easy to breach. Often its an openly accessable database (like recently with the Tea app), or that you can pull other data from the webapp just by incrementing or decrementing the ID in your webrequest (that commonly happened with quite a number of digital contact tracing platforms used during Covid).

Very often the closed source just obscures the screaming security issues.

And yeah, there are not enough people to thorouhly audit all the open source code. But there are more people doing that, than you think. And another thing to mind is, that reporting a security problem with a software/service can get you in serious legal trouble depending on your jurisdicting - justified or not. Corporations won't hesitate to slap suit you out of existance, if they can hide the problems that way. With open source software you typically don't have any problems like this, since collaboration and transparency is more baked in into it.

Thats why other countries are doing it that way. The problem is, that the US system makes it very difficult to get an ID for its long list of undesireables. And with that I mean everyone, who is not white, heteronormative, cis and not-poor. If the US fixes these problems and issues IDs for every of its citizens, then requiring the ID for voting is a good idea. Unfortunately that is a big big If, carrying a lot of weight.

And sex near the lake (sourcev Harry Potter and the half blood prince)

Though he is the one, who actually did these things, so he should be hated for them. Sure, if it would have been someone else, we would hate that asshole instead

Relevant xkcd: Average familiarity

You severly overestimate the average persons tech literacy even when you try to correct for it. Booting from USB is already a really advanced topic.

Though creating a lemmy account is not that complex. Typically all you have to do is fill out a form on the websiten instructions included. The problem there is not the tech literacyn but the willingness of the people to even interact with systems they don't know, like finding a home instance or understanding the concept of the fediverse. Most people could create a lemmy account, though also most people wouldn't.

No, I think that you have that right for every contract, that you enter (buying contract or otherwise). Though there are exceptions (for example digital goods like ebooks). Ypu can very much bring back a retail good that you bought in a store for 14 days after the purchase. Though I think they can refuse, if you damaged the product in that time.

For example I returned an item I bought in the tool store, because I realized I bought the wrong one.

Ahh, for one moment I was excited seeing an open source washing machine project. Then I opened the post and now I'm sad...

In the movies she actually was, though I think only because of Veritaserum, which makes it really not her fault (besides not having the suspicion to give the drink to umbrigdes plants instead of drinking, like Harry in the books).

In that context the break between them gives a bad look on Harry. Like "My nearly girlfriend got druged and interrogated. Such a snitch for telling them about us!" And movie Harry didn't think about what that experience was like for Cho.

More like the other way round, as trans people aren't the perpetrators. Trans people are more like Harry in relation to the Dursleys. Being different without it being his "fault", trying to conform but it resulting in psychological and physical harm to him, not being able to conform as he is supposed to. Being shunned and punished for every "abnormality" (especially the public ones) one the grounds of what-would-the-neighbours-talk-about-this. Finding a more accepting place but being forced to return to the abusive household again and again.

Its abhorrent, how tonedeaf Rowling is towards the obvious parallels to her hate in her own work. Some live long enough to see themselves becoming the villian out of their own fault I guess

Ich habe seit langen den Eindruck, die SPD ist nur eine Fahne im Wind. Wird ihr von Koalitionspartnern oder der Opposition genug Wind rübergeblasen richtet sie sich danach aus. Extreme Peoplepleaser als Partei, niemals feste Standpunkte in eine konsistente Richtung. Wes Brot ich ess des Lied ich sing. Frustrierend

Schöne Aktion, da freut man sich doch. Und das nächste Mal sowas wie Schnellbeton nehmen, für das extra bisschen Spaß