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IIRC Meta now has to implement interoperability with other chat apps like Signal, I wonder if GitHub will have to do the same through AP soon
I find this opinion hilarious: Almost 30 years ago the second most popular software product was Windows 95 (Doom was the #1), which couldn't run for a few hours without BSODing. Almost 20 years ago the average tech worker was building atrocities with Visual Basic, MS Access and PHP.
Meanwhile today it was announced that Google decided to lay off several compiler engineers working on LLVM, but sure, please tell me more about those low quality bootcamp kiddos that are ruining everything...
I won't mention the details here but Google Search sometimes rewrite URLs in such way that an attacker can spoof the actual URL.
My advice is to never trust URLs displayed by websites and apps.
They do care about profit margins, which is why they outsource slavery.
This entire situation changed my mind radically and now I put the non-profit part in my personal top 3 dream jobs :)
> Our combined dataset of around 5.2 billion SSH records contained more than 590,000 invalid RSA signatures.
Am I reading this right? This is about 1 in 10_000, this is way more common that what I would have imagined
My Fairphone 4 with vanilla Android 11 when connected to a USB C monitor will immediately mirror the screen without any sort of notification, so an evil charging port could at least record everything I do, no zero days required.
> The next job for Apple and other Big Tech, under the DMA (Digital Markets Act) is to open up its gates to competitors, be it the electronic wallet, browsers or app stores, consumers using an Apple iPhone should be able to benefit from competitive services by a range of providers
There was some study posted here many years ago that showed a clear increase risk of cancer starting at 5 units per week, so don't drink more than 2 pints/week (or 1 pint if you like Belgian ales like me :P)
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/files/documents/5972-insight-bris...
For some reason I thought that intentionally looking for ways to circumvent laws in this way was kinda illegally