Didn’t the kinda do that in Behind The Curve?
They used a long body of water as a flat reference, set up 3 columns with a hole through them at the same height above the water reference.
A torch shone through 1 end should be visible at the other end if all of the holes are on the same plane.
Because of the curvature, they had to lift the last column to be able to see the light.
They didn’t manage to explain that one

I always figured the role of president was more of a figure head.
I get the buck stops with them, they can do their veto and special powers thing, and I’m sure there are other “ultimately this is your decision” type things.
But it’s the administration you are voting on.

I’m sure it feels amazing to have “that one guy” steering your country. But, I’m sure they mostly do what their advisors tell them to

When metrics become targets they fail to be metrics any more

Yikes, that’s rough!

Obviously, you need the hat-bag to carry spare hats.

Are you 100% sure it was a form from a bank?
Everything stinks of a scammers phishing form, leading to scammer calls.

I expect the only time a bank is going to want your phone number is when you initially sign up with them. After that, they should know who you are and your contact details.

I almost got caught out by a “sorry we missed you” delivery message, until it was asking for my date of birth.
Some of these random emails and SMS can catch you off-guard and seem legit

VMix popularity exploded during the pandemic. A lot of conferences became a blend of teams/zoom/Google and VMix.

Might be hardware based like a multi-m/e video mixer (blackmagic make cheap ones), or maybe more of a screen manager (like barco e2, analog way livecore). But, unless there are production requirements, vmix is much more likely. It’s (now) proven, and much cheaper!

OBS can absolutely do it. There are other open source softwares that can do it.
I’ve seen people bastardise Resolume into something that looks decent.
There are some online studio systems so everything you do is virtualized. Streamyard used to be like this, till it was bought by hopin (I think it was hopin)

You can do reverse proxy on the VPS and use SNI routing (because the requested domain is in clear text over HTTPS), then use Proxy Protocol to attach the real source IP to the TCP packets.
This way, you don’t have to terminate HTTPS on the VPS, and you can load balance between a couple wireguard peers so you have redundancy (or direct them to different reverse proxies or whatever).
On your home servers, you will need an additional frontend(s) that accepts Proxy Protocol from the VPS (as Proxy Protocol packets aren’t standard HTTP/S packets, so standard HTTPS reverse proxies will drop them as unknown/broken/etc).
This way, your home reverse proxy knows the original IP and can attach it to the decrypted http requests as x-forward-for. Or you can do ACLs based on original client IP. Or whatever.

I haven’t found a way to get a firewall that pays attention to Proxy Protocol TCP headers, but I haven’t found that to really be an issue. I don’t really have a use case

Oh, it’s out! Amazing.

I can’t wait to play this again and feel like an idiot in a good way

Even spacex had delays for return on their first crew dragon. I’m pretty sure shuttles have had delays as well.
Granted, Boeing seems to have had more trouble overall.

Anyway, seems like these things happen.

Tests is the industry name for the automated paging when production breaks

If Trump loses this election, where does the Republican party have to go?

Denial, subversion and violence?

I think the supposed risk to electronic voting machines is that there would need to be thousands of them, are distributed, somewhat unattended, and operated by people that don’t know them.
The possibility of an exploit or misconfiguration increases, and the ability to compromise someone supervising one of the polling station increases.
If there is are centralised systems, fewer higher skilled people would be required to secure/monitor/run the system. It can also be airgapped.

While some of these risks are also applicable to in-person and mail-in voting, these systems have been around for ages, are not proprietary, and anyone can figure out “how it works” and can make sure “how it happened” matches.
As soon as you get into cryptographic vulnerabilities and security, 99.99% of people would be lost in the woods

The rest of the questions, I feel, are more systematic things.

Found the project manager

“well, I don’t want to be racist and I try not to be racist. Is there something I can improve on or that I’m ignorant of?”

If you aren’t racist then it flips the onus back on them to prove you are racist, while also showing any offense you might have caused to be accidental and that you are willing to self-improve

I had a huge rant about this, but ditched it.

Steve is the actual politician, but will vote according to crowd sourced opinions on the topics.
And that’s where AI Steve comes in. AI Steve helps generate policy ideas, and they are voted on by the approved community members. Parliamentary topics are also voted on by approved community members.
So AI Steve is the lube, but it’s essentially direct democracy for the approved community members.

So, very cool idea (the direct democracy).
No idea if it would work on a wider/country scale.
Of course it’s a Tory doing it.
Pretty sure this could be done just with an online voting/polling platform and 1 or 2 people doing data entry/gathering.

However, the “better than the past few PMs” is a dangerous rhetoric. Cause all it needs is also a “both sides the same, labour is Tory lite, etc”, and suddenly a bunch of voters will vote disruptively and we get Brexit 2.0 (whatever that might be).
Voting disruptively is absolutely fine, but I’m fairly sure it’s the easiest method for foreign influences to meddle in elections

It’s absolutely something The Onion would post.

I was kinda hoping the UK was past exploiting the ill-informed, idiots and reckless. Especially after the wild wild success of Brexit.

But no, apparently not.
Exploit the AI hype that a lot of people probably don’t understand.
Somehow argue that a computer is more human than a human.
Put this absolute garbage of a solution on the ballet, and watch everyone go “well, politicians aren’t working, let’s try breaking the system” and vote for some untested hallucinating predictive text algorithm to lead a country, while employing twice as many staff to fix/feed/spin/manipulate/fake the results of the AI.

Ooh, russian ships above the water with functioning engines. Well done Russia!

Ah, yes good point