I also did the same as you but because they discontinued the official syncthing app on Android I skipped the "sync to PC first step. Now I directly go to Borg from phone night time only when charging, the automate app is able to invoke termux and run the backup script

Many times it happened the syncthing app crashed in background and I didn’t notice before after several days, now if the Borg repository server (borgwarehouse, it’s a must have) doesn’t see activity after some user specified time sends me a warning email

It’s also incredibly useful to backup /sdcard via rsync or Borg every night automatically

Or access the contents of your phone via SFTP

Especially when there’s a chance that the bios update resets the tpm and if the user has enabled bitlocker (automatically done in background without user consent on windows 11 if using a Microsoft account) then they need to type the decryption key to boot again.

Happened twice on my laptop

The manager who approved this need to be fired. Programs need to ask permission to the user before installing, especially when they’re not device drivers.

This is literal malware and there’s also a chance that it might be exploited (example: a mitm Attack exchanges the file that armory crate is downloading)

This kind of Easter egg is not funny at all, developers must avoid undocumented time bombs. I still remember that day 15 years ago when I turned on my Wii and it said that the system files were corrupted. After hours of reverting a full nand backup via bootmii (and losing 2 years of game saves) it turned out that it was a funny April’s fool by crediar, which put a fake system corruption message when you run his program on April 1st. Problem is that his program was a loader for the system menu so it was unavoidable if you didn’t know that.

Like me, there must be someone paranoid that saw that black bar on the screen, saw a weird Christmas.exe running on their system, and starting wiping or restoring old images to “clean” that.

I used whisper to create subs of a video and in a section with instrumental relaxing music it filled on repeat with

La scuola del Dr. Paret è una tecnologia di ipnosi non verbale che si utilizza per risultati di un’ipnosi non verbale

Clearly stolen from this Dr paret YouTube channels where he’s selling hypnosis lessons in Italian. Probably in one or multiple videos he had subs stating this over the same relaxing instrumental music that I used and the model assumed the sound corresponded to that text

A program that is supposed to make money when you’re sleeping by automatically trade currency pairs. Usually they aren’t as miraculous as their devs are stating.

It stands as “expert advisor”

I did, because I wanted to run multiple copies of it.

The cracked version was running much more smoothly (10x less memory usage) due to missing DRM encryption

My thoughts on it from a decade ago: https://www.forexperiments.com/2012/10/the-price-of-protection.html

This said, most expert advisors programs aren’t really functional, need a human supervision. IMHO the devs make more money from the sales/subscriptions of their software than running their “money making machines”. After all, if your “completely automated money machine” actually works, why would you bother in paying marketing, DRM schemes to have other people using it?

they fired the guy that single handedly managed meshcommander https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCommander

it was a tool to remotely control intel vpro machines, intel’s own tool is not as good as what the old ex-employee did in his free time

I tried to seed the torrents but I never found anything that needed seeds, most users download via browser

Generally good at supporting phones but not at supporting computers, a 5-6 years lifetime is unacceptable from an environmental point of view.

I experienced it last week when I turned on an old Mac with MacOS 10.7. It can’t run anything. Everything that you download doesn’t run anymore, Firefox and chrome are limited to some ancient version like 40 that breaks every modern website and due to some expired SSL root certificate you can’t access any website that’s using let’s encrypt which is a big chunk.

And it’s like this not from recently but at least 5 years, so it was put in a corner and never turned on anymore until last week

It can theoretically be updated to some newer version but the updater to 10.8 has been delisted from the store so you have to alternatively source that.

For comparison, a PC that was purchased the year prior to that Mac is running the latest version of windows 10 without any issue (except slowness due to the 1st gen core architecture)

The CPU speed and ram size is irrelevant in this case, it’s slow because it needs to load ads and sponsored results from internet first

How can they know that the user has a 27" or bigger screen?

Screens report the size via HDMI and not only the name/resolution?