Isn't it weird that many government departments and agencies and stuff like that today require people to have smartphones with internet, email address, phone numbers and so on in order to interact with them?
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some places it is prohibited to personal comm device or only use authorized one when on duty
Yet we can not have tamperproof election systems with real time polling stats and results because "not everyone has a smart phone"...
digital ID, individual carbon footprint tracker, vaccination certificates, digital cash yes! Digital voting.... noooooo GTFO!
It’s suspect at best. I’m furious that I was forced to get on a number of company lists just to do business in the real world. Now, thanks to #TheNostr, I am learning how my/our privacy has been coopted by the state, and how to correct the breach.
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Digital voting is a hard, if not impossible problem due to the fact that attacks have the potential to scale and thats is not the type of risk you want to have when it comes to something so foundational.
Perhaps in smaller/local elections/situations, because there are far less margins to fuck around with, maybe.
In the Netherlands we do everything on paper, and the results are basicly in the same day (with a formal result some days later after it went through all the checks).
I am not aware of the 'because not everyone has a smartphone' argument, and it is definitly not the actual reason (for there are plenty of them) not to do such a thing.
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Indeed. Almost as weird as EVERY government violently forces EVERYONE to wear pants EVERYDAY. At least this draconic rule is not applied inside of our houses (yet)
Are you telling me that the only reason you wear pants is because the government forces you?
I don’t know, I can’t even consider this option because governments are too aggressive here. Maybe if the world would be free from this tyrannic measure, I could think about it
Narrator: And it was at this point, Fiatjaf slowely started to reconsider his anarchist beliefs.
Can only speak to the US, but I don’t find this weird.
They want to keep up with the private sector - this is how ppl already interact with their employers, medical providers, their bank, even the damn library. But we all know it takes gov’t 10+ years just to get a website working… so it is scary to think what kind of old/insecure tech are using.
Most gov’t agencies here still maintain other forms of interaction, IE paperwork.
The central bank digital currency (CBDC) in India requires an app that only works in iOS 16. So, if you have an iPhone 7, you’re out of luck and can’t use digital money
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Resist hard and opt out NOW (TODAY) or your only remaining choice will be absolute slavery - or shooting them to get groceries.
And restaurants. Some months ago I went to one with my children. No smartphone to be 100% with them. "The menu is only on this QR, and if you cannot scan it, I cannot tell you what to order, because we have so many options".
Did you stay there?
Restaurant menus on webpages over QR codes are such a horrible UX, even 
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Yes, because we had already ordered the drinks for then, and I had 2 hungry children. But I never came back.
It happened in 2 different places. I put 1 start in Google Opinions or whatever was called, for both places. One of them replied "we'll have paper menús from next week".
But you're right, it's very bad UX even if you have a smartphone with big screen. Scrolling up and down, and changing tabs... WTF.