Voting doesn’t need to be secure in Russia because voting doesn’t actually matter in Russia.
Why dont they use Linux so weird.
They’re inept
Putin’s a stupid old boomer who can send people to the gulag.
Do you want to teach him a new OS?
p.s. they have multiple nationalised Russian Linuxes i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
Jeeves: “Will it be 87% again this year, sir?”
Putin: “Maybe 93%. Maybe.”
Nah it will be divisible by 5. They don’t try very hard to hide the irregularities. There is a long history of oddly round results:
Pulled from here: https://github.com/dkobak/elections/tree/master
Me using unlicensed windows to jerk off for the 4th time at 3am.
We didn’t need to know that but okay!
And yet you do.
Just know that someone at one point in time jerked off to you or will jerk off to you. This is called the circle of life. For every creature there’s a creature that jerks off to it. But at the very top of the circle there’s a creature that no one jerks off to, that’s the apex masturbator.
😂
Unzips
I switched to Linux after a Windows 10 LTSC security update failed to install. It’s been great, highly reccomend. You should keep a hard drive backup, though.
If you’re on Windows 11 then your machine has a unique global identifier being sent to the sites you visit.
Yes. Thank you for interest in my privacy. I definitely don’t need Windows knowing how much prolapse porn I like to watch.
Plot twist: it’s not connected to the Internet. He has a button labeled “PRESS TO WIN ELECTION” installed in his dacha.
Does Russia have online voting? Oof
It’s easy when you can just make up the results
Yeah, I know their voting is corrupt as hell. This kinda explains it.
A nation where Putin has no term limit and claims to have won by more than 87% is one without real voting in general, IMO.
Just like Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un being unanimously elected
Red star os is a much better and safer choice for him.
Kremlin need to step up their game and use linux.
right? . Like wtf don’t they?
With all the Russian piracy sites, I assume nobody in Russia actually pays for software. I figure they just haven’t gotten around to cracking that machine yet.
I was in Turkey 25 years ago. Their tram system used the Windows warning “BLING” before calling out the station.
I was there last year, and when you go to charge your tram card in the machine, everyone of them has a “This version of Windows is unathorized. Click here to buy a license” message in the bottom left of the screen.
Gotta love the Turks.
This wasn’t the case before 2022, but after MS no longer officially selling licenses in Russia, it’s everyone again.
But it’s different, for things you can’t license because of sanctions piracy is seen as normal, for other things nobody cares, but people stopped pirating.
In general, the ex-Soviet culture of not understanding copyright violations as real crime at all, period, is gone. It’s a few tech-savvy people, sometimes older, and “pirate party” idealists, and communists (not all of them by far).
Those Russian piracy sites are, as a rule, banned in Russia. They mostly started 20+ years ago.
However, those doing copyright protection in Russia are mostly former pirates who legalized their business via some acquaintances. Oops. I also doubt that Aldebaran (the e-book library), for example, licensed all of the books they give for a buck from authors, and with LitRes it’s also highly unlikely. There are plenty of other such Russian paid e-book libraries, movie sites and so on.
It’s a common opinion in Russia that there’s some western “rule of law” which, if applied to Russia, could fix it, I think it’s the other way around, the main problem with Russia’s society is the inferiority complexes, the “rule of law” one among them, leading people to overlook brakes and feedbacks existing in the wild to good effect, when deciding what they want “fixed” and “civilized” to be good.
That “rule of law” idea sometimes leads to following laws set by people who just don’t understand what “acting in good faith” means.
EDIT: What I meant is that piracy situation in Russia is close to what’s it’s in the western countries now, except for sanctions. Younger people pirate, but not all of them. Older and middle age people often see piracy as something bad and shameful. In the “nobody in Russia pays for software” times it was the other way around, most people didn’t understand the concept, and younger and more fashionable people had some licensed copies to boast and would tell their acquaintances that actually it’s very cool to buy official copies, pay for software, give it back to authors, and that otherwise it’d be theft and those people whose names are printed here and here wouldn’t really approve, to say the least.
as it should be
They don’t bother activating his PCs anymore. He always gets frustrated and throws out the Windows.
The umbrellas slow the descent for a soft landing.
Then he has a nice, relaxing cup of tea.
Considering they don’t know about massgrave.dev to permanently activate their copy and it’s Windows 10, they probably also don’t know about extended W10 EOL updates, which means that computer likely hasn’t received a security update since October, 2025.
i’m gonna guess it was a staged photo using a hastily-prepped pc as a prop.
Based on the rumors about putin and his paranoia, I’d assume that computer is not connected to the internet lol
Some photos of him have really awkwardly positioned computers - like no way anyone works like that. Hence why some choose to believe him to be a complete luddite.
How is he online voting then?
The vote goes to himself. No need for an online detour.
He’s the man and he has the vote
Surprise! He’s not.
It’s “voting”, that’s why he’s projected to win with 101.2% votes
Been a long minute since I looked at pre-built machines. That’s a Dell All-in-One. I had to look that up. I’m glad I did, I was about to make a stupid comment that it’s a Dell monitor, but no telling what PC it’s attached to.
“Do not worry, your vote will be counted. Even if you didn’t cast it!”
Look, if you want to cast one vote then Russian hardware can handle it just fine, but if you have to cast thousands, that needs something faster.
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They need just that vote anyway, it will count for every
citizencomrade too.Stop pretending that Russia is communist. Russia wasn’t even communist when it was the USSR, it sure as shit ain’t communist now
Okay but he didn’t say they were, the word Comrade is hundreds of years old and derived from Latin, though Marx and later the USSR and China (neither of which countries are communist) all incentivize(d) “Comrade” as it didn’t have the hierarchical connotations that Senor, Monsieur, and Mister all have being derived from titles of authority.
Don’t think that’s what was being done here.
Everybody knows it’s a dictatorship
It sure as hell isn’t a democracy either
Why are you comparing an economic concept and a form of representation concept
Because this is a thing about voting
Because Soviet communism, and most national implementations of communism around the world, are a combination of system of government and economic model
What was that whole collective farming thing they were trying at then? I know Stalin was just taking advantage of the whole thing, but Kruschev et al were definitely trying at socialism, albeit failing miserably.
Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.
It’s just as much of a distortion of the terms
If Trump had that much power: he would have given himself 127% of the vote.
If a secret shadow organization of oligarchs had that much power; they wouldn’t be struggling so hard against a political party that taxes them and funds healthcare and saves millions of children abroad from starvation, they wouldn’t let idiots like Theil and Musk turn the entire population against the very concept of them, and they definitely wouldn’t have let anybody know about the Epstein Files.
Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.
Yes, that is long overdue.
