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What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Probably using some AI to do fuzzy authentication or something. I had a window pop up like this on my work laptop for some random app it was checking for updates on but failed to authenticate for (just for that app, no other errors, hasn't popped up again since).