• @NocturnalMorning
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    I looked at the python code in the repository they linked, it doesn’t do anything suspicious. Unless they can come up with some better evidence. This is complete nonsense.

    • Clay_pidgin
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      The bluesky OP links to a generator for “fake” ballot images - this is a test script. I generated thousands of “fake” background check applications once for a work project to test how much load the system could accommodate and if any number of likely data entry errors would break it. It’s a normal practice.

      The suggestion that a student working on a voting-related project is suspicious ipso facto is silly. Your professors require you to pick an interesting topic to work on, and voter fraud or election fraud have been in the news.

      • @IzzyScissor
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        It wasn’t at his professors request. It was at Elon Musk’s, who sponsored the “hackathon”.

        It’s one thing to do on your own and another to do for a billionaire as a presumptive job interview.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, this is just circumstantial so far. There’s enough to justify continued effort, but this is no smoking gun yet.

    • @[email protected]
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      I wouldn’t say complete nonsense the script used for their testing does take an image of a ballot and generate replicas with random errors.

      It’s not a fire but it smells a hell of a lot like smoke.

      • @NocturnalMorning
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        No it doesn’t, the script doesn’t do jack shit except run a few tests in fake test directories. Come back when you have actual evidence of fraud. We aren’t Trumpster MAGA nuts who hoot at the first sign of dear leaders telling them stuff.

        Edit: And maybe use a coding language next time that I’m not super familiar with.

        • @petersr
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          I guess you are getting downvoted because you come of a little aggressive, but yeah, I also don’t see the real danger with these scripts by themselves.