There are still people making new works of interactive fiction, including in the parser-based style of Adventure or Zork. You can find a lot of the more recent games on IFDB[0] and general info about IF and the community on IFWiki[1]. Most modern parser games are built for VMs with interpreters available for many operating systems and types of devices, with Lectrote[2] being a common recommendation for desktop platforms.
While TADS, Inform and others are sophisticated tools (more like programming languages, really) to build adventures like Zork or even more complex, for a simple Choose Your Own Adventure something like Twine is better.
Validate them when you get to town... and find that you just donated lunch to a bunch of clever loggers who knew you could not check the validity of their payments until hours after they ate the food you gave them.
You seem to have a very strange definition of "trustless."
The thing that makes ideas spread is not good/bad or truth/lie, it's whether people find them useful or comforting to believe. The truth has no chance in the "marketplace of ideas" against comforting lies that reinforce people's feelings of superiority and infallibility.
That original research only looked at one Wavlink router. This is the extended research with the help of two other researchers. And of course the attempted exploit from a malicious IP address which was detected only recently
Hey, author of the article that's now linked at the top of this page, nice to meet you. You wrote a fine article. You should be proud of it. I was wrong about which article should have replaced the blogspam link that originally graced HN, and your sibling comment to this one ("Hi there, ...") did a great job of explaining why with patience and politeness. The mods clearly agreed and made the right call.
This comment I'm replying to, though... you don't need to do this. If it had been the only reply you posted, I would have come away from our exchange with a very different opinion of you, and that would've been a bit unfair. Just something to think about for the future.
The answer to all three of your questions is "If you are worried about this, absolutely do not buy an M1 Mac." Rosetta 2 cannot magically turn VirtualBox from a virtualization management system into a high-performance x64 emulator. The long-term solution is probably going to be running ARM Windows or Linux in a VM and leaning on Rosetta-style compatibility/translation in the client OS to run x64 programs.
Edit: Since this is attracting downvotes, maybe it needs some clarification. The things OP asked about fundamentally cannot work. Rosetta 2 is designed exclusively for user-mode programs and cannot cooperate with virtualization software to run arbitrary OSes in VMs. VirtualBox has no plans to port to ARM and will not work in Rosetta. None of this is negativity or cynicism towards M1 Macs - it's just the reality of how switching architectures affects virtualization. If your use case for Mac hardware is to run arbitrary x64 code at high speed in VMs, you should not buy an M1 Mac because that capability does not currently exist.
Can't speak for other places, but every time I've voted in-person in Wisconsin it has been through a procedure that doesn't involve the poll workers seeing my ballot after they give it to me. After getting a folder containing a ballot, I take it over to a closed stall to mark it and feed it directly into the scanning machine when I'm done. Safe, secure and results in immediately knowing that your ballot is valid and accepted.
As a sibling comment mentions, states and cities have a great deal of freedom in terms of the "how" of voting and some do it better than others.
