You mean ’apt’.

Not real, isn’t it?

Is that something like Crowdstrike? ;)

Tell us more.

Oh, Burnout: Paradise! Mix of high stakes high speed racing with just cruising the city was perfect for me.

Euro truck simulator with disabled speed limit :)

Have you seen her since you admitted to this? ;)

Thank you for the explanation, I really appreciate it. Bystanders will probably too :)

OK, TIL, thanks! I just bought a new phone, so this is all new to me :)

What phone is that?

Oh, I should probably play with those, as I see no German posts at all.

But being so big and influential as these platforms are, they should not have the option of “oops, sorry, didn’t think about that”. (I am aware I’m being idealistic)

There was a “hack” mentioned in another thread - you can block it via firewall and then selectively open it.

At least for virtual servers, There has to be a cheaper software equivalent, as my cheap VPS allows this (via vnc) with no issues.

Fuck. Pure evil.

They are less of an actual computers in a sense that they are not running stuff under their owner / operator control. This would happen in Linux with much lower chances, because there are no side update channels to such a critical component of the system used there.

However, to take back what I just wrote :) - I am sure rightly motivated engineers would be able to build such a security hole into Linux too, under enough pressure from bad corporate decisions.

Hmm voyager shows me no posts in there (although i see them via browser). How come?

Aah, so still being a bit elitist ;)

It doesn’t matter if it is intentional or not, only the result matters: TikTok gave them boost in the visibility. Whether it was “an algorithm” or any other aspect of the company is irrelevant.

700 should suffice for the first level, but then, you need more than one level.