Not a bad idea - some entity must show legal ownership via chain of custody and make a claim every year, if they can't do so, it becomes public domain with an extra 1 year grace period or something.
Yeah, I've had the same experience, I will say I'm slightly more productive at work, but am I about to give up an hour or two of rare leisure time every day to be more productive for my employer when my current performance isn't an issue? No thanks.
For something like this you must start blocking at the network level, simply allowing the traffic would make these trivial to bypass via even something as simple as a web browser.
Stopping sideloading will never fix this issue, just having one non-cooperative external website would mean the scheme falls apart, you need to start blocking at the network level and aggressively pursuing people who bypass those blocks, making an example out of the first one that hits courts would likely be enough to scare all but the most dedicated out of such pursuits.
I'm not so sure - while I agree, prompt engineering will go away, there's probably a huge market for pre-built integrations in every sector. Bind this AI platform to this industry specific tooling in a polished way, etc.
You can always swap those our with other apps from f-droid or something though and if you're willing to run an open source phone you're largely going to be dealing with the same problems in that department - lack of apps. And that's not to mention MicroG which makes many such apps work anyways.
Is there any real evidence that consuming these is a problem though?
Last I checked the evidence was shaky that this is even problematic for humans and read like a who's who of sketchy medical claims, up there with seed oils killing your testosterone.
Real-time AV scanning is useless against even a cheap (<$10) packer though. Sure, they'll update their definitions and find it eventually, but if it doesn't have a definition for it now, having a definition for it later simply doesn't matter, the damage is done. I'd argue you're actually better to run it through something like VirusTotal where they'll have a larger assessment from many scanners and sandboxing tools to increase the odds of catching something compared to real-time scans with 1 AV.
While Stagefright "affected" them, it often wasn't exploitable. Not to mention that was 5+ years ago and they've since sandboxed all codecs, mitigating potential threats from that vector in the future.
It's interesting too because AV feels somewhat less useful than ever - we're not in the days of common worms flying around the internet anymore, we're in the days of script kiddies using commercial "FUD packers" to bypass most AV scanners with their password and token stealers so they can resell the accounts.
Tools like that are basically hit-and-run and they don't need to stick around to do lasting damage.
Seems to be working for me still, though I set the GPO back on Win10 and it carried over to Win11 through an upgrade. I see some reports of needing to disable tamper protection first but should still work.
> we need to tackle inclusivity issues in our communities
No, I'd much rather see the FSF's core principles defended and expressed better than see them "tackle inclusivity issues". Wasting time, resources and breath on this kind of thing is the problem.
That's very different from "stop letting them buy gas" - It doesn't punish people for continuing their current standard of living nor forcibly reduce it and it doesn't immediately destroy the value of gasoline passenger vehicles, in fact it may increase them unless charging infrastructure catches up in those places.
Yeah, generally speaking unless it's a very large shard and cuts your esophagus, once it reaches your stomach, acids will knock the edges off and it'll pass without issue.
Fire one of the many offline LLMs up on a university network or somewhere else that a single IP connecting many times won't be too suspicious and let it go to town.