Learned that App Store does this too during a recent MFA rollout.
What really surprised me was that when instructed to install Google Authenticator, a significant portion of people (I'd estimate close to 50%) would search the exact name and then proceed to reach to install the sponsored top result with a completely different name until I stopped them.
Absolutely this. It is so disappointing that the big tech companies provide ANOTHER opportunity for less-skilled users to make a mistake.
And a mistake that might hurt them with security and certainly cost and functionality.
And in a core, security-sensitive function like "what third party apps should I have on my personal device?" This is not searching for fun memes on Reddit!
A lot of the MFA apps that Apple allows to appear above the official apps do work, but they have a $10/month subscription fee. The MS Authenticator clones have very similar icons and names
I rather suspect that this kind of thing constitutes the majority of shovelware on all the app stores, rather than outright malware. The latter gets you quickly ejected, but if your app is technically within the rules, it's just a steady trickle of $$$ from people who install it by mistake or because they just don't know better.
I actually think that llms could be good for human-focused websites.
When the average user is only going to AI for their information, it frees the rest of the web from worrying about SSO, advertisements, etc. The only people writing websites will be those who truly want to create a website (such as the author, based on the clear effort put into this site), and not those with alternate incentives (namely making money from page views).
Why should people be in either crowd? The internet needs dedicated professionals too. Someone has to test vacuum cleaners, do investigative journalism, report about quickly changing events. This requires more time than the merely passionate can provide.
And why would the truly passionate keep writing if their words never make it to others without being rephrased and they never get attribution for their ideas?
Gianmarco Soresi discussed this on an episode of his podcast.
He says how there used to be a number of nationally known comedians who could make jokes that appealed to everyone's shared cultural experience, but now that's effectively impossible because a) culture isn't tied to geography / location, and b) niches are much more prevalent. I loved the example that huge venues can now often be sold out for artists you've never heard of.
On one hand it's not neccessarily a bad thing since individuals are getting more of what truly appeals to them, but I also think that the result could be increasing the barrier to connect with others because it decreases the chances that you'll have interests in common.
I'm currently in my last semester of college, getting a BS in Computing and Information Technologies from RIT. I started this degree planning to go into sysadmin, but have been gravitating towards devops / SRE skills. I'm a very enthusiastic learner, exploring with my Docker-focused homelab for the past 6 years, including running some custom services which I've come to rely on daily.
As someone who has woken up to looking a bear in the face while camping, I can say with 100% confidence that on a physiological level these are not the same thing.
Much better legislation would be requiring that the firmware/software source be released at EOL, so that users can maintain the hardware they purchased for as long as they like.
Probably we need both. Hardkill all devices, and let determined users resurrect their own devices with the open source firmware if needed. The point is that millions of vulnerable devices won't stay online by default.
If we're dropping Latin alphabet, Tengwar is another option. It's vocalized abjad (a better term perhaps will be abugida or alphasyllabary) and vowels are written with diacritics.
I'm a 4th year Computing and Information Technology student at RIT, looking for a summer job / internship before I head in to my final semester. Ideally looking to explore DevOps as I've had a ton of fun running containers at home for the past 5 years, and I'm currently taking RIT's first ever DevOps course. I am also open to build on my prior experiences in systems administration, or try web development which I've been highly successful with at school.
I got a 2019 Mazda3 sedan a few months ago and I'm very happy so far. It has a few more features than I wanted, but I was reassured by a family member who is a mechanic for a Mazda dealer that everything is very reliable.
I really like that all the auto stuff can be turned off if you want, and all the capability of the screen but still having physical buttons. Plus I got 36mpg on my first road trip with cruise control set at 85.
I think the ideal solution here would be if companies were required to ship an open source driver, and then optionally offer a proprietary driver for an extra fee which includes whatever 'special sauce' (as another comment put it) that they don't want to release.
The example I'm thinking of is Nvidia's newer GPUs and DLSS. The hardware would come with open drivers, but if you want the upscaling that's an additional fee. While maintaining additional drivers is more work for companies, I think they'd actually benefit from this because it could be a recurring revenue stream for older hardware.
What really surprised me was that when instructed to install Google Authenticator, a significant portion of people (I'd estimate close to 50%) would search the exact name and then proceed to reach to install the sponsored top result with a completely different name until I stopped them.
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