The base OS of Android is, but the widely dispersed version maintained by Google with the hardware drivers required for it to work with the actual hardware is not.

That’s why projects like Graphene can’t work on every phone. They have to rely on either reverse engineering hardware drivers or the manufacturers providing the drivers. For many years, Google openly released the drivers for all the hardware in their Pixel line of phones, which allowed Graphene and other customized versions of Android to easily work on Pixel phones.

Manufacturers usually don’t release drivers separately and instead they’re only available built into the manufacturers customized Android version. Android Open Source Project is the open source base, then Google builds their proprietary stuff on top as “Android”, then the various phone manufacturers build their own versions on top of Google’s “Android” with: manufacturer specific crud added, phone specific crud added, and often phone carrier specific crud added.

They also can identify and track vehicles based off things like bumper stickers, dents/damage. And identify people across different cameras by outfit, physical characteristics, and walking gait.

Stop, my dog can only get so hot-diggity.

Wow, that corpse is preserved amazingly! I didn’t know they had modern style glasses in the iron age.

Fuck. Roving bands of empty robo taxis DDoSing local roads wasn’t on my bingo card.

Lie to the toddlers about the rules so I always win

You should have a look at some of the official PowerShell scripts they’ve made to assist with managing, installing, and decommissioning Exchange Servers.

One had the word group misspelled consistently the entire way through it. Another had a wonderful comment noting that an internal function (to manage something with AD permissions or deep internals of the Exchange Server) that looked misspelled was in fact spelled correctly, because the command had a typo in the real name of it.

Paying out hacker ransom isn’t a particularly rare event. The hackers that do it professionally are… professional. If they don’t follow through on their side of the agreement then no one pays them.

This isn’t some “dangerous precedent” it’s a basic business decision that paying up would be cheaper than the alternative options. Normal cyber crime response and remediation shit.

General opinion I’ve seen online over the past year or two is that the Verge has started following the same downward trend as nearly every other online news source, unfortunately.

If you’re on Lemmy, I’ve expect a certain level of tech awareness to begin with, so why would you ever use “raw” Chrome over one of the many de-googled forks?

I’m not even pushing for Firefox here, just use UnGoogled Chromium or something.

Conker’s Bad Fur Day’s Great Mighty Poo boss, reimagined for a souls-like

Anime Email was a mistake

That was always my assumption of the end game. You have the system prompts, an advertising bias prompt layer over top, then the user prompts.

“Naturally worded” advertising that doesn’t immediately appear to be advertising and searching using natural language always seemed to be the biggest use cases for LLMs to me, considering they can’t be relied on to output accurate info.

Who the hell watched Psycho-Pass and thought it was a good idea?

Rookie mistake. The password is what we write on a sticky note and tape to the edge of our screen.

Birthright membership in the Domain Admins group is what keeps all our users from being pestered when they want to install that neat new tool they found. Then you don’t need to harden the built in admin account against attacks, you can just disable it!

It’s not always for lack of trying. I spent a year or so building the integration (from a box of scraps!) between the shiny new HR system and our IDP. This integration was supposed to be functional out of the box according to the HR system salesgoblin. It didn’t just need to be configured, it needed to be built from scratch because they didn’t actually support hybrid AD/Entra setups managed from the AD side. Which was only the unofficial standard for Windows based shops at the time.

Anyway, I wanted to make it grant employees access to shit based off a combo of Job Title and Department. On a technical level, it’s basic baby stuff. Concatenate the Dept and Title into a string, use that as the key to a hashtable with the access they need listed. Bish bash bosh, bob’s your uncle.

It would have been a cakewalk compared to all the shit I had to build for handling separations and all the data retention shit around those.

But none of the department managers could actually tell us what the fuck their workers needed access to. Like maybe 3% had any idea at all. And I didn’t have the team or time to try and do data analytics across the access of everyone at the company just to get an unreliable best guess.

So it just handles setting new hires up with the basic access everyone gets and separations. Still a savings of ~1 hour per employee.

It’s been something like 7 years since I built that integration. They’re finally going to replace it with a true access management platform. It’s cost them multiple millions so far, has an entire new department dedicated to the thing, it has been “in-progress” for two years, and it still hasn’t replaced my shit yet.

My favorite part is when they come to me months in to something they’re trying to get working, and I’m able to point them at where they made mistaken assunptions at the first step leading to the mess they’re currently in.

I provided a ton of in-depth notes on our current standards, the weird gotchas/deviations, every single stumbling block and edge case I had found, all the seemingly logical and safe assumptions that don’t actually hold. I don’t think they read any of it. I keep asking them to reach out before they start working on a new piece of functionality. They don’t.

So now I get to tell them things like “that assumption you built this piece of logic off of will bite you in the ass in this specific way”, they say they’ll take it under consideration, and I laugh knowing this whole project will probably implode under the weight of incorrect assumptions before it’s finished.

Why the fuck was a flock enabled camera put in there to begin with? What are they trying to catch that entry/exit coverage wouldn’t?

Does the blue haired one just… not have a name?

AI writes essays for you

Complains about no job you studied for existing

AI writes for you

you studied for?

I think I see the problem here.

More seriously, most people don’t end up working what they studied for. And the job market absolutely does suck.

Maybe I’m missing something, but that post just has a ton of claims and no screenshots or links to what it’s talking about.