I also strongly agree that Burnout 3: Takedown and Burnout Revenge are the best in the series, the most focused and polished.. Burnout Paradise is OK but lacks something those other two have.
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Apple implemented a kernel API for security software and made it good enough that they forced their own tools to use the API.
I haven't looked at the Security API in depth but I have looked at the iOS APIs.. Apple gets away with their own apps having MUCH MUCH deeper access than what they give 3rd parties.. I would be SHOCKED if their kernel API is all they use in their own tools.
Microsoft needs to shut up and do the work to make their kernel secure.
The EU ruling is very broad however, if it has just been security tools YES MS could have just built out the APIs and used them for defender, but the EU ruling makes it so open we have wonderful video game anti cheat and DRM drivers from all sorts of providers playing around in driver / kernel space.
Yes, System extensions on macOS Catalina 10.15 or later allow software https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/
MS had this implemented originally in NT4 then started allowing more drivers direct access for performance.
They tried again with VISTA but McAfee and Symantec cried to the EU and forced MS to back down.
Apparently apple got away with implementing it however.
Kind of old news "Posted July 19, 2024 10:45 am Updated July 19, 2024 3:12 pm"
This report makes it sound like they had a video call with camera on, vs other reports where they recommend people have camera on because they didn't
also used AI tools to create a profile picture and match that face during the video conference calls.
This doesn't sounds like the video was on / faked only that they had a call where the profile picture was used.
Will it get done if it costs too much to get someone to do it? Do I think I can do it?
If I added up all of the home, auto and technical maintenance I have done in the last month as farmed out to a professional I would be broke ALL THE TIME or the things would not have gotten done.
SO many things can be looked up and even found as full instructional videos now.
I generally look at it as if there is special knowledge, skills or tools needed also if I could make things worse.. If not I will try and do it myself.
Your examples would have more similarity with suggesting a vegetarian diet as an alternative to a mix or most meat diet. That would be a functional alternative, like suggesting a different OS or Browser.
Veganism more like a political statement that if you eat meat your are a bad person for harming animals. All vegans may be vegetarians but not all vegetarians are vegan.
I will admit there are many OS and Browser purists that might be more like vegans telling you, you are bad for choosing the one you currently use. There are FOSS purists that only tell you to use FOSS because it is NOT commercial not because the software is better for what you need.
CrowdStrike managed to break Linux systems a few months ago
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/
Linux, windows and MacOS have security APIs to avoid kernel drivers but they also let the user approve 3rd parties to install them still.