Once the target enters the correct password, PamStealer displays a message stating that the file is damaged and can't be installed. This is designed to be a decoy to prevent the target from suspecting anything is amiss.

Same sort of technique I used back in secondary school, lol ;) We had a programming class (in Basic on DOS), and it was painfully trivial, so I'd always complete the assignments in like 5 minutes and then spend the rest of class messing around. So one thing I wrote was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands, and when someone ran the login command and typed in their username and password, it would say that the password was incorrect so they'd think they had typed it wrong (while it was actually saving their username and password, then logging out of my account), so that when they tried again, it worked. I would launch on a bunch of computers in the lab after class when I could get away with it..

Among the passwords collected were the teacher's administrator username and password. So when it came time to write my final project for the course, among the various demo-style scenes in it was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram was her username and password. ;)

(Thankfully she had a good attitude about it... seemed like she wanted to get mad at me but also found it funny. In retrospect, that could have gone very badly had she gotten angry...)

Fitbit became Google Health and lost badges. Badges are little awards you get for passing certain milestones, like daily steps, or lifetime distance walked. This app brings them back.

... as in: If you get in bed with them, you'll get screwed.

You really have to be a special kind of dumb to buy anything from Facebook. What did you expect? Their entire business model is selling YOU.

Yeah, this is what I always worry about when I see studies like this. I know they always try to control for confounders, but it's really hard to do right. If you mess up, you get another "Regular wine drinking improves your health!" craze (wine consumption is correlated with wealth and better access to healthcare, and also, people with serious health problems often have to give up drinking)

I recently made an Android app with Gemini AI. I'm an embedded C guy, not done any Android development, and I just wanted a simple app for personal use so I thought I'd try it.

It made the app, eventually. I had to walk it through some parts, and repeat requests when it said it was done but hadn't actually done what I asked. Some research was needed to guide it, such as asking it to use a specific API call that properly aggregated data over a day, rather than trying to read all the raw readings and add them up manually.

I won't release it, it's AI slop. It works for me, but I don't want to support it, and I don't want to inflict that on anyone else. But also, I have an app that I would probably never have had the time or energy to learn how to make myself.

I have off-site backups, but also with GOG you can re-download the games.

That's it, he is doing it to generate fake potential future business for SpaceX. In reality, what will probably happen is others enter the market and undercut Starlink and launching to LEO, and that business dries up. It's already happening with Tesla cars, which are constantly heavily discounted because rivals make better ones at lower prices. They are hanging on in the UK by somehow being a "prestige" badge along side BMW and the like... Actually I can see the connection there.

There are plenty of car batteries well over 10 years old now. As long as they are treated reasonably well, 10 years isn't difficult at all for many chemistries.

Typically home batteries are cycled between 20 and 80%, as degradation is faster at low and high states of charge. They are also kept at a reasonable temperature and charged relatively slowly compared to their size. Mine are around 0.5C charge/discharge rate, for example.

For that reason most home batteries here come with a 10 year warranty. Some are longer, and some are insurance backed.

I took Reddit to Small Claims Court for failure to process a GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR), and as part of their defence they accidentally admitted that their system is badly broken. The particular account I was requesting data for was apparently automatically banned because the system thought it was a bot, and then when I appealed a *manual review* also decided that it was a bot. To compound the error, they then lied about it in emails and on their login page, and failed to process the SAR.

I expect that will offer to settle soon, which is fine (I don't care about the money, beyond my costs) as long as they complete the SAR. The details will be fascinating. Their website gaslights you, their staff lie to you, and it all seems to be in aid of dealing with a bot problem that they have very little control over.

Using it will be like having your head up Elon Musk's arse 24/7.

In case Steam ever shuts down. Also what happens if your Steam account gets banned for some reason?

I tend to avoid games that use DRM as well, because I don't want that shit screwing up my system.

It was a prestigious service for Air France and British Airways. When they decided to stop flying Concorde, Virgin Atlantic wanted to buy the aircraft and keep flying them. Of course, BA refused to sell them and made sure that every single one ended up beyond the point where it could be returned to service, because they didn't want anyone else to operate a supersonic service.

It took a long time for a few reasons. You can reduce the boom with an exotic shape vehicle, but then it starts to suck as an aircraft. Less lift, awkward to use existing airport facilities, difficult to take off and land, pilots need a lot of training etc.

To be commercially viable it has to carry a reasonable number of people, in relative comfort, and be relatively fuel efficient for a supersonic aircraft.

Some of the tech to enable that is relatively recent, or still in development. Engines in particular.

It should be mandatory to allow sales of used digital games. There is no reason why these companies couldn't allow it on their platforms, other than greed.

Some people got partial refunds for them removing Linux. I wonder if it might be possible to do the same here. Harder to argue as the Playstation itself has not been altered, just the opportunity to buy physical copies has been removed.