“What does this mean for art? To me, it shows that what matters most is not who made it or what tools were used, but its message and how it makes us feel.”

Time to tell on myself a bit, I was a 35N in the US army with experience adjacent to this subject. Stingrays are commercially available devices that pretty much anybody with big money can get their hands on and use. Private companies make various stingray-type devices and those private companies have salesmen who actively want to sell YOU on buying their equipment.

For law enforcement, getting a continuing agreement with telecommunication companies to have legal access to bulk USP data is a big nightmare with lots of red tape. Even if a police department were to get these agreements with the telecommunications company you’re now introducing all of the inconvenience of dealing with AT&T customer support to get your data from them. This isn’t a joke, pretty often you will still have to work with/through the telecommunications company you have an agreement with to get your data. And to be honest their techs and reps are dumb as bricks, they are so often a common pain point.

Setting up a stingray on the other hand gives the police department direct access to all the data themselves with no middle-men, and often they even have supplemental support from whichever company they bought their stingrays from. It’s easier, faster, and more convenient data collection 99% of the time to not go through the genuine cell towers.

Nobody has to use a chromium browser

Tbf I didn’t ask anything, but on Google phones the photos app is Google photos.

Holding the image does nothing in the photos app.

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The common alternative is to just ask ChatGPT your software questions, get false information from the AI, and then try and push that horrible code to production anyway if my past two jobs are any indicator.

Stack Overflow is still useful to find old answers, but fucking sucks to ask new questions on. If you aren’t getting an AI answer to your question, then you’re getting your question deleted for some made up reason.

The real answer that everyone hates is: If you have a question about something, read the documentation and experiment with it to figure that something out. If the documentation seems wrong, submit an issue report to the devs (usually on GitHub) and see what they say.

The secondary answer is that almost everything FOSS has a slack channel or even sometimes discord channels. Go to the channels and ask people who use/make whatever tool you need help with.

That’s weird as fuck, guy