yes, git is a godsend. but who will you trust that they checked the new code, and found nothing bad? different people have different expectations too.

it could be done without VR, like first person games do

have you ever used Gentoo? if you do, you know how long it takes to build updated software from source code.

vetting all that, even just the changes would take a lot more time. and it’s a constant effort.

that’s not “alive next to it”. you can’t see both at the same time

I’m surprised the kernel anticheat didn’t autoban you right away starting the game

back then there was no AI like these, but otherwise yeah

Personally I tend to avoid running untrustworthy programs outside of a sandbox or VM.

what does that mean? are you not running any programs at all? you cannot know just by looking at the name if a program reads such sensitive info. and its not unlikely that some developer figured it would be a good idea to include it in automatic crash reports

yes, this is sensitive information. its like your fingerprint, you cannot change it. I think its quite obvious. web browsers firefox is fighting to hide more and more that even indirectly could lead to identification. websites can’t read this ID, this is just a comparison.

or needs us to use insecure encryption keys

look up QWAC

that would be the only sensible approach, but we all know it will never happen

you are wrong. people would buy it without thinking twice. also, it doesn’t need to be obvious, anything could be hidden in an additional package that looks like the other memory chips on the stick

and it lowered the number of apartments available for rent in those places.

isn’t that the goal? are those formerly rented apartments now in the possession of its resident?

the process started a bit earlier. people were already complaining what they do despite their motto

And, honestly, which is the more common question to Google these days: a 10-15 year old NBA meme, or people distraught about supposed friends ghosting them?

looking at the search results, I would say the NBA meme. who the fuck asks the search engine for life advice? asking the chatbot about that sadly has become kind of natural… but to people the chatbot is the [AI company name] app on their phone.

what was DoubleClick like before the acquisition? were they already dealing in data mining?

the java edition? also, chunk loading and keeping a slightly larger than normal render distance is still very resource intensive.

Said software resides in ROM - Read-Only Memory

even if it is actually in read only memory (it is not in smartphones), that does not matter if a vulnerability grants remote code execution ability. it all happens in RAM. it is wiped with a power cycle but the attacker can just reinfect your phone.

to the SIM card’s storage - from which it was impossible to run additional apps because, again, that functionality just didn’t exist.

SIM cards support apps. have been that way for a very long time.

Finally, most true feature phones didn’t have data connections, making it almost impossible to introduce data into memory.

calls and sms are data, with a right vulnerability they can be used to deliver a payload

they could only display an SMS payload as raw text

same with modern phones, and yet attacks are delivered through them, somehow.

A phone from 25 years ago would “stay connected” to the network but idle the modem or even shut down higher functionalities beyond the standard connection ping. A modern phone is CONSTANTLY streaming data. Push notifications. Optimised download of music, syncing of photos, emails, chat messages for your 74 different apps in their different protocols.

you have lost the point. the point is not all that apps. the question was about the bare minimum needed for voice over 3G/4G. no push notifications, no music streaming, no apps of any kind. calls, and sms

All of this combined makes a modern 3310 nigh impossible.

does not. a 3310 was not an entertainment center, and a recreation of it wouldn’t either.

Or, you can have it, but it’s not a phone worth having, because all it will be able to do is call, send text messages, and maybe have a basic browser built in…

that’s the whole point

Now if it was a true feature phone… good luck sideloading spyware. You’d have to disassemble the phone and mount the chips in an EEPROM reader to get anywhere, and that’s not an effective remote exploit.

that’s dumb. it’s very likely just as vulnerable as androids. the modem’s software is full of decades legacy cruft and many security holes, and likely not properly separated from the mic, the ram or the storage

try a redlib instance

what is the thing with DNS? why is it 2 thin slabs?