Certainly! First collect a cup apple seeds, crush these down to a fine powered…

They want to do this so they can feed their ai models.

You have died of dysentery.

Ideally, you should be joining a cooperative, guild, and unionize. Let companies consult to you.

Feels like this is where it needs to head. This isn’t material different than going through a recruiting agency except those agency charges +20% of the starting salary.

The idea is the same though. People form relationships with the third party group and the third party group puts their reputation on the line when suggesting candidates.

If we had AGI, the number of jobs that would be at risk would be enormous. But these LLMs aren’t it.

They are language models and until someone can replace that second L with Logic, no amount of layering is going to get us there.

Those layers are basically all the previous AI techniques laid over the top of an LLM but anyone that has a basic understanding of languages can tell you how illogical they are.

I do as a software engineer. The fad will collapse. Software engineering hiring will increase but the pipeline of new engineers will is dry because no one wants to enter the career with companies hanging ai over everyone’s heads. Basic supply and demand says my skillset will become more valuable.

Someone will need to clean up the ai slop. I’ve already had similar pistons where I was brought into clean up code bases that failed being outsourced.

Ai is simply the next iteration. The problem is always the same business doesn’t know what they really want and need and have no ability to assess what has been delivered.

How unique do you suppose file system paths are?

How many hashes would one need to gather to quickly determine the root path for all files? Paths are not random so guessing the path is just a rainbow table.

The scanning for known releases becomes trivial once the file system pattern is known.

Bold of you to assume they’ll use Java and not some obscure language picked based on the need to pad their resumes.

Google would still own android and may not be inclined to keep chrome as the default. That is a significant portion of the browser’s user base.

With default search engine agreements being threatened, it may shake out where Google and Firefox agreed to make Firefox the default android browser in exchange for keeping Google their default search engine.

The raise your child to use a device appropriately. Waiting until they are a teenager is far too late to form the appropriate habits around self limiting screen time.

I get that no one wants to blame the device but this is clearly a parenting issue and I say this as someone who has on average raised far more children than anyone in my generation.

But go ahead and lean into the articles that blame on the evil algorithms and the evil corporations. Personal and parental responsibility is hard anx blaming outside influences is easy.

Raise your children or someone else will do it for you.

13? How many of their friends have phones because I would assume their using phones, just not one you gave them and I know from experience other parents do not do the most basic of filtering in their kids devices.

It’s a technology sub and I’ve been around long enough to know this is where the morons of the internet hang out but not everyone is as aware of the pattern.

A modern day equivalent of “we don’t own a tv”

That still wouldn’t account for it. The code to collect this is tiny and the data isn’t stored locally. The whole point is for them to suck it up into their massive dataset.

If China is subsidizing the vheicle and we purchase them here, that means we are drawing from China’s subsidies.

The claim is this is to save industries but the notion that was need to save specific industry is never questioned.

We’re told we’re protecting jobs but that’s bullshit. We’re only protecting the profits of capitalists.

Whomp whomp. You get what you pay for.

This is literally the correct way to proceed in any inbound communication. Doesn’t matter who it is, the more authority they claim the faster to hang up.

They will try and trigger your lizard brain and make you feel like you must act now.

They got you because you’re not familiar with the Apple ecosystem nor their support system. That’s all sus as hell.

You also failed at basic opsec because you allowed them to control the flow of communication.

Was there actual suspicious activity? Did an actual Apple representative ever contact you because it sounds like the whole thing was a phish but you make it sound like they just got the case number and timing when the more likely scenario is that the email was also them.

Only a fool would put an Amazon listening device in their home.

They can’t even effectively prevent cheaters so I’m always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.