Am I being dumb? I have Google Gemini in a private Workspace, I have licensed myself and (I think!) given all permissions - so why doesn't Gemin have access to my calendar, email, drive to make itself useful?! I'm tearing my hair out...
Some kind of attack (ransomware?) has crippled London Drugs, a local Canadian pharmacy chain (moderate size, 78 stores) for the past week. Apparently their phone systems are tied in with their computer systems since their phones have been down for a week, but they'll fill prescriptions if you go to the store and bring your old prescription labels.
I'm curious if the business is going to be able to survive this or if the customer loss from being down for a week will end up being fatal.
@danluu I wonder if there are a relatively small number of attackers and a relatively large size of targets, so the actual chances of being compromised in a way that's useful to an attacker is low.
The impact on the target is huge of course, and recovery is particularly difficult, but the chances are a company won't be affected, so they play the odds?
@Faintdreams I mean, actually, in a wibbly wobbly metaversey kind of way, I can see John and Mobius getting on really well, and being far more interesting than the two main characters.
🤔 All this talk of could Caitlin Clark play in the NBA (no) or the BIG3 (maybe), but no talk of could Dawn Staley coach in the NBA (yes), or the BIG3 (yes). 🤷🏿♂️
@mekkaokereke@memory "But an NFL wide receiver or corner back, is almost always a great athlete that wasn't quite athletic enough to play in the NBA. Seriously."
Wearing my best "Internet smile" ... do you have a citation for that? Not looking to disagree, but that feels like an assertion someone has data on somewhere...
So, a while back, I asked you to recommend your favorite #Linux command line utilities.
I got 187 answers, with 3 recommendations for almost each of them, and I sifted through these to land on 12 picks that I either started using myself, or that I felt would be very useful!
So, here are 12 terminal apps and utilities that you recommended:
@bloor@revk@neil yeah, it pretty much looks like I don't have a choice.
I don't think the risk is high enough for it to be worth my time arguing, but - like you - the general feeling I get from the infosec community is an informed wariness about the tech.
Years ago, I realized I was forgetting more than I recalled about the many studies I read that found #COVID19 was NOT just a mild, acute illness but led to chronic health problems. So, I created a spreadsheet to track these studies. Over the last two years or so, I've read significant parts of over 1,500 research studies, and my spreadsheet is approaching 525 reports that demonstrate COVID leaves people with damage to brains, hearts, immune systems, reproductive systems, and other organs. (1/5)
@augieray thank you for sharing this, I will - at some point - manage to take a proper look.
From the briefest of looks the results generally look concerning, have any of the 1500 studies concluded that the "it's just a cold" hypothesis is valid?
My budget, and choice of mostly bloatware free Android phone vendors, really limits me to a few phones, and the current choice is between:
Good enough phone, with Android 14
Slightly better phone, with Android 13
I'm tempted to go with Android 14, in the expectation that it will be current/secure for longer - but this is mainly a "vibes based" decision. Do any of you have a useful insight here?
@sarajw that's a very good question, and I've edited the original post appropriately.
I'm considering Motorola, as I like how little they tend to add to the default build... I should see how many versions they'll upgrade through, but from previous experience I'm assuming only two or three years.
@Faintdreams yeah, it feels that way, but it's the "any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views" that I keep thinking about, I'm not sure that something like crypto perfume falls under that.
@neurovagrant weird - to me - that the cell service being out appears to take away GPS functionality, or push iPhones into "SOS mode", but I've only read a couple of articles beyond this one.
@diyelectromusic@Faintdreams yeah, it's really weird that using this text interface, that should be universal, apparently requires special skills. I can see that entire profession going away after a UX/UI upgrade though...