Luckily on the XBOX you could at least play some older titles you might've never played pretty easily. PlayStation in that regard is, as far as I know, still lacking. The only console I've considered worthwhile for this generation is the Switch.
They have for a while now in my experience. I'm not sure if it's still a thing, but there used to be these like sacks at the door with numbered pockets in which you'd put your phone until the end of that specific class.
Based on visiting a lot of Dutch schools this year, that's still very much happening. I tried to google a photo but couldn't figure out what the word for that thing is.
As someone else already mentioned, there's a Darknet Diaries episode about it. There's also a Wired [0] piece about it from Andy Greenberg who also adopted it into his (in my opinion) excellent book Sandworm: about how the Kremlin slowly got more and more dangerous in terms of cyber warfare capabilities.
I'm always surprised by the sheer amount of ads on Instagram. TikTok barely shows me any ads, even through prolonged periods of me using the app. Using Instagram is pain with the constant amount of identical ads being shoved down the pipeline.
This would make me suspicious, and my first assumption would be that the ads are hidden as fake content. On reddit it's quite obvious, when there's yet another /r/funny post about some (for example) "funny" Coke bottle thing or some other brand. Lots of those kinds of posts, actually. Also a lot of quite obvious fake engagement-encouraging posts, such as the many question reddits with thread-creating questions (/r/AskReddit comes to mind, a large subreddit also shown on the frontpage when I'm not logged in) that even look and sound like they were planned and designed (and they all have a similar vibe, as if coming from the same source).
Modern ads are not the obvious type that are marked as such. It's more like product placement and a bunch of other less obvious methods.
They're either hidden extremely well, I'm oblivious to them or they're not there as much I'd say.
Most of the things I get on TikTok are, I would argue, genuine content that someone made because they wanted to or is following along a trend that is ongoing. I don't get a lot of people showing off a product, and often when they do it's for stuff I'm interested in and I'm already following them for.
Perhaps its a matter of diversity. Instagram feels very monotone in its ads: bottom barrel mobile games or brands trying to sell me their garbage I don't need nor would be interested in. TikTok on the other hand feels less monotonous in what I get shown.
I’m almost positive that Instagram also has those sort of embedded promotions/ads, which are generally done outside of the official platform. But they also have a metric shitton of actual ads, within their own platform, that they queued up.
Theoretically yes. However, the chance of you encountering a second hand device with such an implant is relatively low I'd say.
I guess if you buy it off journalists or activists the chance would be higher but still relatively unlikely. But as with anything, consider if it suits your threat model and act accordingly.
Yep! Last I checked kubelet will just refuse to work if you try to give it swap from "underneath", too.
I work with data science tools that require 16G of RAM eac for hundreds of users, and Kubernetes was an appalling choice of platform for it. It has cost the org millions a year more than it needed to, given the actual usage profiles involved. Unsurprising that big contributors to k8s have been.. companies selling compute.
As a huge openbsd aficionado I don't think openbsd is more secure than any other operating system, or more correctly speaking, I think openbsd definition of security is different than most peoples definition of security. If anything, by most peoples definition of security openbsd may be less secure.
Most peoples definition of security is to have improved access control such that unauthorized access cannot happen. The openbsd definition of security is closer to "build it correctly so that it operates correctly". openbsd access control is actually fairly limited and rudimentary.
This AI boom feels very similar to that of crypto/Web 3.0 of a few years ago. Wouldn’t be surprised if the same people are behind the current AI/ML hype.
