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  • The app is mainly designed to help users block and track lost or stolen smartphones across all telecom networks, using a central registry. It also lets them identify, and disconnect, fraudulent mobile connections.

    With more than 5 million downloads since its launch, the app has helped block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones, while more than 30 million fraudulent connections have also been terminated.

    The government says it helps prevent cyber threats and assists tracking and blocking of lost or stolen phones, helping police to trace devices, while keeping counterfeits out of the black market.

    There has to be a way to do all of this without installing something on your phone that you didn’t ask for.


  • If you downloaded a malware-infected version, it shouldn’t be able to access your accounts.

    It remains unknown what the malware that found its way into the official SmartTube APK files can actually do. Thankfully, SmartTube is programmed to only request minimal account permissions and does not ask for any login information directly. Even if you granted the app access to your Google Drive for backup purposes, your Google account and general Google Drive files remain out of the app’s scope of permissions. Permissions regarding control of your YouTube account seem like the only thing that could have easily been exposed to the malware, as far as account access is concerned.

    To be safe, factory reset anything you installed it on and double check for Google/YouTube account activity and permissions.

    That said, since very little is know about the malware, you should assume the worst. If you use SmartTube and are concerned about your exposure to this malware, you should factory reset any device that had the app installed, especially if you installed or updated the app in November. It would also be a good idea to audit your Google account permissions and your YouTube account activity for anything unusual. Once your devices and account are in order, if you wish to reinstall SmartTube, be sure to only install the latest version through the codes/links above.



















  • I’m half-convinced they did this whole project just so they could call it COOL.

    Collabora Online (COOL) is the company’s open-source solution for document editing and collaboration online and at scale. COOL provides a consistent, discoverable user interface (UI) designed with intuitive toolbars and a tabbed interface, which focuses on the tools most people use every day and enables current users to get their work done without clutter.











  • earthworm@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldAgree
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    Patriotism as a feeling of exclusive love for one’s own people, and as a doctrine of the virtue of sacrificing one’s tranquillity, one’s property, and even one’s life, in defence of the weak among them from slaughter and outrage hy their enemies, was the highest idea of the period when each nation considered it feasible and just, to subject to slaughter and outrage the people of other nations for its own advantage.

    The way Tolstoy uses the word aligns with the negative, exclusive definition of the word:

    The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations; nationalism.

    and not the positive sense of the word:

    Love of one’s country; devotion to the welfare of one’s compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one’s country.

    That makes sense, because he didn’t have access to the word nationalism as a means to distinguish between the two. The word “nationalism” doesn’t appear a single time in Patriotism and Government or in Patriotism, or Peace?.

    And that makes sense. The word nationalism didn’t see common usage until well after he published that piece (in 1900).

    We’re not “inventing” good patriotism now, because it was already “invented” over the course of the past 100 years.

    We now have access to both words, allowing us to distinguish between the positive and negative aspects of that love.

    Leo Tolstoy’s writing is timeless in a lot of ways, but when we’re talking about terms, it’s important to take into account what those terms meant when they were used.




  • Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.

    Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”

    Edit: Just read the article. They went out of their way to try to make it sound like this group was up to something other than legally show up to immigrant court and keep watch for heinous police behavior.

    The memo did not provide any further details about the individual or their alleged past calls for violence and offered no specifics or evidence to explain why the FBI characterized them as “anarchist violent extremists”. The courtwatch efforts have been non-violent, and the FBI did not respond to an inquiry seeking specific examples of violence and did not answer questions about whether law enforcement had ongoing access to the private group.


  • While the analysis suggests ChatGPT — one of the most widely used text-based forms of generative AI — is rapidly changing the mix of occupations on offer to tech workers, it is not shifting the composition of jobs throughout the entire US economy at a much swifter pace than the arrival of computers and the internet.

    The wording vs the actual graphs is suspicious.

    Is it

    “AI is not killing jobs”

    or

    “AI is not killing jobs much faster than [things that have definitely killed jobs]”