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Play Store can now download multiple Android app updates at the same time
  • It'll improve the overall time. Pressing the download button doesn't saturate your downlink immediately, it's always a ramp up to max speed. Doing them in parallel saturates your connection much better.

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    No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
  • Let me be clear so you don't misunderstand me. When it comes down to prove an image is genuine you haven't been able to say "look at this picture, it's real for sure" for almost 30 years. When you want to use a picture to prove something you have to provide much more details about where/how/when/why it was taken, access to those tools won't change the fact a picture in a vacuum has no meaning.

    Like I said, old-man-yelling-at-cloud energy.

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    No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
  • Lmao, "but" means your statement can be true and irrelevant at the same time. From the day photoshop could fool people lawyers have been trying to mark any image as faked, misplaced or out of context.

    When you just now realise it's an issue, that's your problem. People can't stop these tools from existing, so like, go yell at a cloud or something.

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    to delete this video from the internet
  • She would have known what the impact would've been, she literally studied the sport. She must have seen many female Australian breakers who were leagues above her in terms of skill. Yet she thought she was worthy to represent her country, hate is a strong word, but she and the org that put her there should be heavily criticised.

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    The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT
  • then again, who says the OP was for average person

    Nobody, the post is to aid us who are assisting other people to switch. I'm saying people here vastly overestimate the average persons ability AND willingness to actually switch, by themselves or assisted.

    Linux is not all that horrible compared to Windows.

    It is, in part because Linux is not beginner friendly but mostly because everyone is used to windows. Almost every program they've used is exclusive to it, which is why this post provides a path to eventually introduce them to Linux. Using Linux isn't hard, using it the same way people are used to is. As is troubleshooting and installing 3rd party applications.

    So when you're done building strawmans, go touch some grass

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    The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT
  • Couldn't have said it better, and I've seen the same article as well!

    Funny story a coworker told me is his father kept breaking his windows install in the weirdest ways, so he asked him if he'd try Linux and was very reluctant. He showed him his laptop and he said "Oh yeah I used this at work for 30 years!"

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    The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT
  • Your point is proven by the adaptation of chromebooks, kids have no issue using them and neither should anyone else. It's not a Linux thing, it's a "what did you use the most"-thing. Some distros are ready to be shipped to consumers, bought a laptop with Linux pre-installed in 2018 (XPS 13).

    You'll see mainstream use if stores are selling them in-store to consumers. You're up against the likes of Google, Microsoft or Apple when you try to pull that off.

    PS: I believe in mainstream Linux use because money has a tendency to ruin everything, just think it will be much slower than us enthusiasts would want.

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    The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT
  • Exactly, in reality people will use what's given to them. Just like windows, introduce it now and people would lose their fucking minds about how convoluted it is.

    Transition costs are what we should be looking at, right now to install or use Linux you need someone with experience explaining it to you. Just like it was when PC's were becoming a thing. Don't have that person? Only alternative is MacOS or ChromeOS for them.

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    The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT
  • It's actually hilarious how disconnected some Linux folks are lmao

    The average person

    • doesn't know what an operating system is
    • can barely work with windows, has had many struggles learning windows
    • is scared of change
    • doesn't know about the existence of a BIOS
    • will never be able to boot anything else but default by themselves
    • doesn't know how to troubleshoot anything about computers
    • literally does not know or care about the existence of Linux

    I know these things are changing, but anyone saying people are able to switch to Linux by themselves and its easy and doable for the average person is fucking delusional, this post is one of the most reasonable takes I've seen on the sub

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    Olympic Kangarule
  • For sure, many disciplines require creativity and expression. She did that, without showing any skill or technicality.

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  • papers.ssrn.com Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market

    Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and

    Abstract

    Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily than when such work required tradecraft. The last ten years have also been marked by stark failures to control spyware and its precursors and components. This Article accounts for and critiques these failures, providing a socio-technical history since 2014, particularly focusing on the conversation about trade in zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits. Second, this Article applies lessons from these failures to guide regulatory efforts going forward. While recognizing that controlling this trade is difficult, I argue countries should focus on building and strengthening multilateral coalitions of the willing, rather than on strong-arming existing multilateral institutions into working on the problem. Individually, countries should focus on export controls and other sanctions that target specific bad actors, rather than focusing on restricting particular technologies. Last, I continue to call for transparency as a key part of oversight of domestic governments' use of spyware and related components.

    Keywords: cybersecurity, zero-day vulnerabilities, international law, espionage

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    www.nbcnews.com Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers.

    The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.

    > The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.

    > July 27, 2023, 8:00 PM CEST > By Brandy Zadrozny

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