One of the techniques is called buffer overflow. Where you target a flaw in some software.
Computers are logic, they will do EXACTLY what you tell them. Imagine if an image viewer uses an dll to process jpg. That dll expects a very specific header. If this is not handled correctly and a malicious attacker crafts the header to be slightly larger and the larger part contains executable code. This code spills over in the adjacent memory area. The OS then reads this as code to run.. and boom you are in.
This is oversimplified and proberly not explained correctly, but its something like that; and that kids, is why its important to update your OS and software.
Sometimes they find bugs like this, that have existed for many years before being discovered.
Maybe, there's still important questions. Will it scale? Preliminary tests only transfered mA's before the super conductivity breaks down. So can you layer the material to get higher amps? Will cables have to be made in one continuous part or will the super conductivity work across joined cables
Hell, I would even have accepted a subscription to be able to use Boost; and I hate subscription based services.
They had opportunity to earn a lot of money and not alienate their users. With profit from 3party apps and companies using reddit for AI data. With realistic pricing.
But Spez (Fuck u), acted like a spoiled vendictive little brat and burned everything down, because of his fragile ego.
Just take a look at the mail and phone conversation, and subsequent lies about what was said; between Spez and the Apollo developer. To see I'm not making this up.
I rarely see any ads. First thing I do on a clean windows or new phone, is to install adblockers. Simply because they have become so intrusive and takes up a lot of screen realestate. On top of that ads have been attack vectors for zero day exploits into people's computers several times before.
One place I still see ads are on Facebook, and they never target anything I'm interested in. I suspect it's because of greed. Because they are absolutely collecting my data, so they should be able to target me with relevant stuff, but they will allow any ads as long as the advertisers pay up. I have seen explicit ads on Facebook.. on Facebook! Where users almost gets banned for saying butt. Ads on the other hand, is fine..
The result is I'm bombarded with irrelevant ads, that I never click.
As services gets more aggressive with pushing ads down my throat, the more aggressive methods I'm going use to block ads or find alternative services. They did it to themselves.
I posted a reply with a "quick fix" to a Lenovo T14s issue, quite some time ago.
That reply has kept getting "Thank you" replies now and again.
I suspect that that will continue for a long time to come.
There is a lot of that kind of useful information on Reddit that doesn't get outdated for at foreseeable future.
Hell. I found a 14 year old solution to a Borland database issue I had at work, buried in some old forums, so don't dismis the value of old information.
Use "Because API changes" instead of "Because lemmy". But I agree; changing it to a link to Lemmy instead is better. Theres a shit-ton of valuable information buried on Reddit.
Most young people are basically tech illiterate. Yeah they are fantastic with new apps and phones. But have zero idea how any of it works under the hood.
Ask them to transfer a file from a computer to a USB drive, most will not know how. They have no idea how a file system is structured or even that an app has to specifically made for different platforms.. e.g. Facebook app on Apple is completely different from Facebook on Android and the two will contain different bugs and different settings.
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On the bright side, he should have all the time in the world to code, after going to prison.