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With regard to the stupidly confusing "Will #Gemini hoover up all chats from Android phones" stuff, my interpretation is that nothing will change for anyone who doesn't actively use Gemini - even if you don't flip the stupid switches off, it shouldn't access your chats if you don't ask it about anything. All the references to the retention of "conversations" by Google in the support doc appear to be referring to "conversations" with Gemini itself. Where Sandboxed Google Play or de-Googling (depending on the user's needs, means and threat model) is not an option, the best thing you can do is uninstall or disable any Gemini app and set the default "Digital Assistant app" to nothing (but at least on some phones this will change it to a screen begging you to re-enable Google Assistant (or Gemini now, I guess?)). If the phone's user can use another search engine or even just get used to accessing Google through the browser, you can do one better and disable/uninstall the Google app, which is bloated af and used as a vehicle for roughly half of this shit.

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#JanitorAI #AI #TechSupport #Tech

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Long shot but I can't find an answer with "short searches": I got a KVM. Everything finally works, except Mint shuts down (closing all apps) when I switch to the other computer and I need to open the lid to make it come back.
This is with "lid action=nothing" in the power settings, of course.

Any ideas? Even ideas on how to express this concept in a way that lets me find the relevant reddit thread would be awesome.

Fedi, I have a #ComputerScience (maybe #Linguistics ?) Question I need your lovely guidance for ❤️:boosts_ok_gay:💙

I have a design problem about grammar ambiguity ish stuff and want to find reading, resources or theory I can check out to come up with an elegant solution.

Particularly, I'm trying to find good alternatives to cases when a given word can appear in multiple parts of the syntax

An example problem (sorry it's very computery): I have two strings (or lists of tokens) I need to combine into a single string, separated by a delimiter, such that both strings can be retrieved again. But, that delimiter can show up in either of the two strings. The standard way to deal with this is to designate an escape token and prepend all instances of the delimiter within the strings with it (eg
\"). The issue there is now is that any instances of the escape token need escaping too (e.g. \\).

Slightly less work is inserting a repetition of the delimiter any non-delimiting instances of the token. If the delimiter appears twice, it's part of a string, and the only non-repeating delimiter must be the real one. This can look ugly if the delimiter is long though.

Another crazy option would be interlacing the two strings so all even tokens belong to string 1 and odd ones are string 2. This would obviously look horrible, but maybe there are other solutions taking a similar thought process.

That's just the most basic case I'm interested in, there might be heaps of other strategies when you have more restrictions and guarantees on what the tokens might contain.

So yeah I'm looking for stuff like that so I can figure out good patterns for unambiguous yet elegant grammars. For a tad more context, I'm thinking about command line argument formats, trying to think of the most user friendly ways to handle complex data as a list of arguments.

Also please boost and let me know if there's hashtags I should include etc
​:ablobcatheart:​ #CompSci #programming #askfedi #TechSupport #CompSci #programming #askfedi #TechSupport

So I spent the afternoon tinkering and spending someone else's money.

I'm the designated tech support for a friend who has been complaining that her 5 year old laptop was playing up and all the modifications I had devised to make her life easier had simply disappeared. She declared that she desperately needed a new laptop and a new tablet (she uses the tablet 90% of the time anyway).

The 5 year old laptop has been updated, the various issues fixed, and it is now set up (again) exactly how she likes it.

And a very shiny new tablet and case have been ordered. Which cost more than my phone (understandable) but it was even more expensive than my recent desktop build. 😳

Today's free #TechSupport session at the South Burlington library:
1. Switching MS Office from a 2016 student edition to Microsoft 365 to enable copilot
2. Filing a support case with GoDaddy to recover access to a domain
3. Cleaning paint off a laptop screen 🤦
4. Installing an eSIM on a replacement iPhone and other setup tasks
5. Troubleshooting an iPhone used with hearing aids
6. Removing bloatware from a new Android phone
#Libraries #Vermont

Today a repeat client contacted me via text messaging (RCS). It was in the last half of a Friday afternoon. I was sitting at my desk doing paperwork. I texted back, “I can help you right now, if that works for you.” Their reply was, “Now would be great.” I called them, then connected remotely to their MacBook Air, and took care of the issue. And a little before 5pm, I emailed them the invoice.

The paperwork can wait. Speed matters.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

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“If you have turned on two-step verification and cannot access any of the alternate methods to get a verification, we cannot help you, sorry.” (Source: support(.)microsoft(.)com)

Yesterday I tried to assist a client with Microsoft account recovery. This client had enabled 2FA/MFA on the account using the Microsoft Authenticator app. Then, the phone with the Authenticator app broke.

There was no alternate 2-factor authentication enabled. No alternate email, no option for SMS (text messaging) verification, no Yubikey. When the client initially set up 2FA with the Authenticator app, they were offered the option to save recovery codes, but didn’t write them down.

The client is highly educated. If you blame the client, I will block you, because you’re a jerk.

Microsoft, and other companies, need to do a much better job of ensuring workable account recovery options are not just available, but actually enabled.

This is a paid annual account. By default, Microsoft works hard at making sure at sign-up that you enable auto-renewal. Do you see the problem? The client can’t access the account, and will have to cancel the credit card to avoid continued payments.

THE LESSON
It’s up to you to make sure you have alternate account recovery mechanisms in place. The cloud service companies will not help you. They are not your friend. They don’t even make it easy to contact them to discuss account problems.

If you’re not comfortable setting up secondary account recovery options, I can help. Do it now, before your phone breaks.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks