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* Opens Github repo

* Opens Cargo.lock [1] and pnpm-lock.yaml [2]

* Closes Cargo.lock and pnpm-lock.yaml

* Goes to find a Tylenol

At least with open source we can see the sausage getting made...

[1] https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite/blob/main/Cargo.lock

[2] https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite/blob/main/pnpm-lock.y...



Even after reading your comment I was not quite ready for that. I am gobsmacked, over 30K lines of lock file! Are we supposed to have trust in that?


To be fair... What I gather from the readme is that this is monorepo containing 7 sub projects.


EW. Here, I’ll share some of my Extra Strength Acetaminophen. Those are some cursed lock files.


> * Goes to find a Tylenol

Watch out that you don't catch the autism :) /s

> [1] https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite/blob/main/Cargo.lock

> [2] https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite/blob/main/pnpm-lock.y...

These files are actually cursed and I want all drives that contain their data destroyed with acid. But I have a slight feeling other voting software isn't really any better, even though in theory it should be relatively simple software in the grand scheme of things.


Maybe the solution is to have no software at all. Software can't be really audited at scale, human actions can




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