I would guess a ton of this is exploiting vulnerable cloud-connected IoT devices that manufacturers don’t actually support with updates and if they did, users wouldn’t install them.

The embedded MCU firmware scene is only recently started taking security seriously at a larger scale. It was always an afterthought before I hear.

One project I am doing at work (engineering and administrative departments run on spreadsheets) not being a programmer at all is automating technical sales generation. We make custom things but we have a few products that have a bunch of standard things to configure.

Using VBA to do a few small calculations (it sucks at large data which is why python in excel is amazing) and taking in a bunch of configuration fields to output a price, then generating a word document from a template with the quote including the relevant configuration details.

Sadly the apple watch sensor + algorithm is the singular best PPG optical heart rate tracker on the market.

Not enough to put myself in danger of the Israeli Pegasus sending me one text to inject spyware but still…

And an electronics guy’s smart home if there is no wireless at all and all KNX and Ethernet wired lol.

I wonder if it was even able to compile. I am a shitty hobby coder who just does it to make my embedded hardware projects function.

I have yet to get compilable code out of any of the AI bots I have tried. Gemini, mistral, and chatGPT. I am not making an account lol.

I have gotten some compilable python and VBA code for data analysis stuff at work, so I wonder if it is because embedded stuff uses specific SDKs that it can’t handle.

Either way I have given up on it for anything besides bouncing ideas off of or debugging where electromagnetics issues could lie (though it has been completely wrong about that also even though it is using the wrong concepts, it just reminds me of concepts that I might have overlooked)

VW ID7 was advertised as the new Passat stationwagen.

It ended up just being a standard sedan with more tacky LEDs on the outside starting at like € 70k

KiCAD for 10 years now. Leaps and bounds better than then!

Steam 15 years or so

VLC since windows XP

Firefox since then also

Arduino for quick things for 12 years about

Discord since 2016 (and now looking to change)

It will be tried again next year, and the year after, and the year after, because in EU Parliament, how much money backing you have means how often you can try to push something through apparently, without any sort of restrictions while actual issues that would help the citizens get pushed off and delayed and never re-tried.

Amazon was toxic from day one, anticompetitive, borderline illegal, definitely corrupt as hell. It is what Epic Games Store would have been if it had been long before steam lol. The amount of shit that they bankrupted into the ground with cheap Chinese copies off the backs of VC funds while making tons of loss and then removing their storefronts…

But as soon as GabeN dies, steam will become shit probably as the vultures close in.

This is the biggest bait ever hahaha.

Android below red hat in corporate/authoritarian and equal to Ubuntu 😂 the OS that is trying to take away installing apps not from them and trying to fully track app developers while not giving a damn about malware that effects the user because it doesn’t effect their bottom line?

SUSE released a set of completely open source sans serif font for targeted at os-level fonts. It is a pretty good font and I started using it on many of my systems.

I mean, that won’t really work. It dampens the signal, not eliminates it, and in order to block communications, you need a net width small enough to block 1/4 wavelength which is 5cm/4, so <1 cm holes with a material thick enough for the damping.

That would be a net that weighs like 20kg lol and it would essentially be a solid cage at that point

Not to mention that it would have to fully encompass them.

Better to just use a signal jammer like they do for drones.

Palantir

They have unique digital fingerprints for everyone already pretty much, but they are not linked to official government IDs so there is still uncertainty I think over identification.

This makes everyone’s digital fingerprint linked on a government ID. Voila, now every person in America is known by Palantir and the government at all times (more or less). Great for genocide and targeting your political opponents and voters to set up sham elections.

It also tries to stop poors who don’t have drivers licenses in America from organizing as they can’t verify.

Now with Flock surveiling most of the US: Jaywalking or littering and a Democrat or worse, leftist? You are a criminal and intelligible to vote. Incoming trump 75+% win for an illegal 3rd term or Vance.

Thiel famously said “what if there was a way, through technology, to achieve your political goals without having to beg and plead to convince people who will never agree with you anyway”

Convenient that Israel has bought up a huge portion of VPNs just recently and has one of the largest spying and influence networks in the world.

Yeah, I am no fan of proton and they have lied before (no log VPN logs magically finding logs for authorities and then later removing the no-log claim).

But this is literally just proton being legally compelled to hand over data the user willingly gave (not being harvested or de-encrypted). A nothing story.

Sadly it won’t work on fairphone 6 because it only has USB 2.0 and there isn’t enough bandwidth.

I am confused.

In developer options in basic android you can simply enable the feature right?

My old Sony xperia 5 ii can do that and it definitely isn’t a Sony feature…

To be fair, the vast vast majority of families would throw a fit (or just go back to Netflix/Spotify) if they have to put on wireguard to access jellyfin or a navidrome server for streaming while they are out and about.

We on Lemmy tend to extensively overestimate tech literacy.

Android runs on the Linux kernel

MacOS runs on the UNIX kernel

I am not sure what that had to do with anything. It is not Microsoft, but if Palantir released a Linux distro, it would sure as shit have mass surveillance in it.

I am guessing the commenter doesn’t trust the GrapheneOS guy or something.

I did IT for my company on the side of my job for a year or two.

Prolific problem where windows would disable the microphone but every single “windows tool” said it was working perfectly fine except teams would say it was not available.

The only possible fix that someone on the internet found was to download an old sketchy file from a 3rd party source for an archived version of their “pre-help-assistant AI slop” audio troubleshooter, and run that and it would immediately say “oh, it is disabled, let me re-enable it for you”

Even though every tool, setting, and even registry said it was enabled.

Microsoft has the worst audio.