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Second, the point of Pi as a bare-bones BUT extensible harness is just that - a bare-bones harness, that can get anything one wants. Make that "thing" easy to get. Besides, bloat is bloat and every bloat is someone's must-have and vice versa.
I had also read somewhere that they have launched (already? not sure) their hosted model infra or something like OpenRouter (not sure). Nothing wrong with running a paying business along with a FOSS project but that's also there.
I was lucky enough to stop at the password prompt (something felt off). Gemini had pretty much established that it was almost entirely certain nothing left my Mac as I didn't enter my password and I hadn't. It also found some evidence that had I entered my password those evidences would have been gone certainly from my mac and then I had the script beautified and de-obfuscated and read it myself and had a much needed sigh of relief. The script literally did nothing unless it had the password.
I started using nextdns after that but then the site I tricked on was a legit but very small e-com site from my country which was hacked/taken over, so not sure how nextdns can even be helpful here. Also the script was identified as malicious by only one antivirus that I had tried later, just to see. I had tried 8–9 of them. Later I uninstalled all of them and even stopped using NextDNS.
I wish browsers like Safari allowed specific options like disabling clipboard interaction instead of the "disable js" as the only possible option.
Later (and still) I feel a bit of shame that how could I fall for this as a somewhat proud cynic and as well versed in "browsing the Interwebs" as it normally gets :) That (as small as it was) experience gave a whole new meaning to malicious online attacks for me and a whole lot of empathy towards people who fall for such attacks. It was my first "experience". It might sound weird but the feeling of violation still lingers.
(just wanted to share this)
Was that a page that made it look like one needs to do something as part of the browser/session human verification process? And it was an obfuscated command (an echo cmd iirc)? Sth like this https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/odyssey-stealer-attac...
Or was it something else?
I prefer "they". It's just too much work trying to find out someone's preferred pronouns on the Internet, unless they have somewhere specifically asked not to be mentioned as "they" on the Internet, and that is also too much work, but anyway, in that case I may also indeed have to answer to fellow Internet strangers. But in this case the title says "Julia" so should have easily been "she" (in my defence I am from a region where these kind of names are not very common, so I may be wrong).
I learned it the hard way that even if someone asks for a feedback be very polite and simply convey that the HR has instructed you to route this via proper (HR/recruiter) channels. In fact in some cases, we were specifically asked to exactly say that and often our recruiters set these expectations with the candidates in advance (I've been informed of this in advance before some of my interviews). In one case a candidate kept mailing my team recruiter that the interviewers (a colleague and I) were very happy with the performance and why they were still not getting the offer.
If I want feedback (and this is only when the interview process was good irrespective of whether my performance, as per me, was good enough for that role or not), I ask for a a feedback via the recruiter and in most cases I don't get a response but that's fine. The last thing I want is feedback from someone who, let's just say, is not very ideal.
Another thing is, unless the candidate is someone who is giving an interview knowing they will get 11 offers out of 10 interviews they might be on the backfoot, a bit defensive, even stressed, or scared, and may not downright tell the interviewer that they are being an ass, or insensitive, etc.
I just don't understand how these companies can get away with that. These are the aspects of life that tells very clearly how most Govts are not chosen and ran for "the people" but the few, not the conspiratorial spirals. These are the smaller, but harsh Kafkaesque realities of life that says we lost this to the power of the "rich" - and it's an abstract power, it's not fixed, and if someone from the "masses" manages to become part of it they also reap the benefit but by the design of things that number has to be really small.
Okay, it deviated. The point is
> provides terrible support for their own play store.
Something like this is so abhorrent and yet is it normal and I didn't even start at how they can just charge 15 and 33% for of the incomes.
Price as well? Yes. When I bought my first MacBook Air in ~2011-12 I was shocked to see what I got for ~57K INR (no, I am not converting it to USD) I would not have gotten from any other OEM even for fricking 120-130K INR (I had the choice here to instead say 1.2-1.3L :D). And that hasn't changed more or less.
But their OSs are pathetic, their software (even other than the OS part) are downright disgusting. But they sort of have a great personal computing hardware monopoly. Because no one else bothers to make it. For whatever reason.
They make it increasingly hard to make Linux on this. Really really hard.
What else sucks? Repair and repair cost. You are literally using a costly (bank-broken-level) repair affair ticking time-bomb in your backpacks - there is no two way about it.
And people who are going to say, like every time, "but how many times has your Apple device broken down", or even "but why won't you buy a new one after 3-4 years", or something even more stupid like "wait.. so your AirPod stopped working after 3 years.. you wanted it to last for 30 years?", please go and put the head back into the warm sand where it safely was. Anyone saying, "but they give you repair kits", please f-- off!
tl;dr: it's not the right way to buy personal computing hardware, but the the closest right way is a decade behind or at best many years.
If you have used mac/iOS (esp. Mac; well, because on iOS you can't do anything other than what's on screen essentially) for a long time you might realise Apple, at this point, is simply not capable of even developing those features that will allow users to do such things. And you don't even have to know Swift/objC for this sad realisation. I am pretty sure someone would have mentioned and they'd have realised it meant moving around a million hardcoded modules and frameworks and turning on/off a billion flags (a lot of them potentially global). They are that incompetent when it comes to software.
PS. Tamil is my second most favourite "not known by me" Indian language for the way it sounds, especially in old songs and some new songs (and yes, I don't understand a single word of it).
"firesteelrain = Edward Snowden"
Hence established! ^
He had the option of either not reporting what he saw wrong at all, or getting killed or arrested after doing that had he not chosen a place where USA (or lackies) either couldn't touch him with impunity, or rather wouldn't dare to touch him with impunity.
"avtar" (w; we would have totally spelled it "Awatar" - I see you Cameron) and "vikas" (v; something our PM got us loads of) have two distinct व sounds and it is phonetic and we don't have to memorise it when we make these sounds. The problem is English keeps coming to us over the years while we take our sweet time in getting used to this pronunciation and spelling monstrosity. Another reason could be, not everyone went to schools where English with strict pronunciation was a focus or even a nudge.
This was to your
> I don’t know why
And I don't know where you are from but if you are from the "English west", I am pretty sure you mispronounce "Gandhi" like "Gendi" or "Geyndii" and been doing it for decades without bothering to even learn it. "I don't know why" :)
Do people really not see that? Or has it already become “le colour scheme of le new Internet”?