For fdroid the app is compiled on fdroid servers when dev tags a new release on GitHub. So the app matches the source, it’s not possible to put a tainted APK to download

Now, if the malicious code is slowly added to the source over the course of an year like it happened with the xz utils, this won’t change the result, but it’s easier to do so with a compiled binary. Release clean source and infected binary, it will take a longer time to get caught

For the closed source app stores, on iOS there’s the manual inspection (which is not infallible especially if they timebomb or geofence the bad feature) and for Google there’s the automated inspection (which fails often seeing the news) that should find problems

No it’s a thin layer of steel hot glued to a plastic shell

AND complete it 1-2 months before release date to allow manufacturing and shipping.

They complete it 1-2 months AFTER release date now…

The worst part is that it’s technically possible to do that using the bd-live 2.0 specification

When I saw the process to add Google drive support to an app I thought: “wouldn’t be easier to just discontinue the public APIs?”

If I was a dev I would immediately remove the integration instead of paying the required thousands (yearly!) to keep it. Then in the app explain the situation to the customer, add a referral link to Dropbox, onedrive or other competitors

You get apps a couple days earlier

But it comes with a huge downside: if dev goes rogue or gets hacked, you could install a malicious version of the app that doesn’t match the source

How the hell you can capture 160 kg of live crabs and put them alive in six luggages thinking that nobody would smell it?

But then they counted how many zeroes there were on the check, and suddenly they were totally fine in assisting genocide

This is pure speculation, the language in the t&c describes what happens now: the console and/or the account gets banned from online gaming

Inb4 Trump invents tariffs on foreign coded software

It automatically encrypts the drive only if admin has a Microsoft account (to backup the key on their cloud servers for easier LEO access data recovery) and the PC is a prebuilt

If one of the condition is not met, the automatic ransomware isn’t enabled

The decryption key is saved in the Microsoft account, the error message explains that

I also almost got a panic attack when my Lenovo updated the bios and i was locked out

There were alpha versions of windows 8 with less glaring/annoying bugs than windows 11, though

Power move by the zucc by first asking how much genai is used at Microsoft then refusing to answer his own question at Facebook 😂

I tried it on my car but it doesn’t turn on anymore. Deceiving news

Wtf is that website? Why there are no ads at all, the article is well written without evident use of a LLM and it’s extremely thorough in writing? Without even a pause “article continues in the next ad-ridden page”. I didn’t know that it was technically possible to make websites like that

It’s not just tpm 2.0 support, but simply Intel 8th gen or higher or Ryzen

Intel 6th gen CPUs could totally support tpm 2.0 but they decided to cut them off because $$$

There is no real technical reason, management wanted the line to go up so they had meetings and meetings with the engineering teams in order to find a somewhat reasonable excuse to send to the landfill millions and millions of perfectly usable computers

As an European i don’t understand at all those open trucks. The back side is completely wasted space, is unusable, stuff will get stolen when you park (or even at the traffic light), or will get soaked in rain. It also lowers aerodynamic efficiency. That one time in my life when i would need to move a fridge or a mattress i could just rent it for 3 hours

did you just jinx him?

Problem is that it says country of manufacture instead of country of registration