Microsoft fired its entire QA team 10 years ago, and shifted the responsibility for testing onto developers. They also got rid of their dedicated hardware lab where software would be tested on many different hardware combinations.

That…makes SO much sense and explains a lot! Thanks for mentioning it.

One toke is over the line? Sweet Jesus!

Outlook.com, duh!

Mine, too!

Holy cow, that’s neat as hell! Thanks for sharing!

Dammit, this attacker is sounding more and more adorable!

Poor guy. My heart breaks for him. I hope people are understanding, compassionate, empathetic, and aren’t hateful and harrassing towards him about it, but, realistically… they likely will be hateful and harrass the poor dude, because some people are just sucky, entitled, and rude little jackasses (and I hate it so much and I don’t understand why people behave this way!) I hope he can find a way to handle it all okay. :(

How cute and fun! I love it. Thank you for the screenshot and explanation!

It’s a link to a comment on this subject that says:

Ok, so to explain. This DID happen,literally 500m from my home :) the system was designed to store reg plate numbers and later turned to a speed camera. The stunt was done by a few students of the Technical University, it did bring the whole db down. They tried to revive it, but ultimately the boards have been dead for the past 5 years or so. Mind that this hack was performed around 7 or 8 years ago:) I can provide pics of the dead board now and exact coordinates too:)

And then later in the replies they do give the coordinates of the camera billboard thing they broke, and someone posts a Google Maps screenshot of the board at the coordinates they gave that just looks like a little digital billboard that’s turned off and is just black, and the OP confirms that it is the board they mentioned.

Hope that all makes sense; I’ve got a lot brain fog/stress brain and stuff and it felt like too much to screenshot lol

Oooh, I like it! Thank you so much for sharing this here! :)

Here’s the hover text for this one:

Learning arcane bullshit from the 80s can break your computer, but if you’re willing to wade through arcane bullshit from programmers in the 90s and 2000s, you can break everyone else’s computers, too.

Yep, I learned a good bit of it in school. That shit’s helpful.

That’s a really great article, thank you for the link! That was informative and educational and I am a fan.

Thank you! I had no idea what this was talking about but was curious, so this is perfect. I appreciate it!

I‘m very sick atm and only took the time to troubleshoot because I wanted to doomscroll on the couch in peace. :) I‘ll raise the issues when I‘m feeling a little better. Otherwise the bug description will be incomprehendable.

Ugh, I feel for you! I hope you get to feeling better soon!

Agreed, I took it the same exact way. I’m not sure how we were supposed to tell otherwise. Maybe we were supposed to read their mind? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That is exactly my story, too! I’m glad we both found our way here like that. Fun stuff :)

The people trying to help you that you’re being so rude to are not the software you’re upset with. You shouldn’t be taking it out on others; especially not people being kind to you and just trying to help you. (Extra especially considering Beehaw’s whole thing is to ‘bee nice!’)

Oooh, neat! I hadn’t heard of that. Thank you so much for sharing this! I look forward to trying it out. Exciting!!

I feel the same way about my Moto G Stylus 2020 (called Moto G Pro outside of America,) except I’m a big fan of the cameras, especially with the Google Cam mod…but I’ve only ever had super cheap, old, super-budget phones before this one that I keep for years until they just don’t work anymore. This one I bought when it was less than a year old and is a much higher tier of ‘budget phone’ than my previous ones. So my love of this camera is compared to relatively shitty ones I’ve had in the past. I have no idea how the cameras would hold up compared to flagships. I’m super happy with it! It’s still going strong and I plan to keep it until it dies. Motorola’s got some great phone options!