Every new internet-connected feature they add seems to also increase attack surface, so this is a weird dilemma. Still better to keep things up to date in the short term. In the long term, I’ve made the choice to switch to an OS that respects user preferences.

Edit: I’ve also heard that the Windows 11 IoT enterprise edition doesnt come with all this bloat but still gets regular security updates

No. Lockdown is not the same as BFU. Lockdown just turns off biometric unlocking.

When you reboot the phone, it is in the BFU state where everything is still encrypted until the user unlocks the phone, as I understand it. https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-states/

From the GOS forums, it looks like as long as you keep your phone up-to-date, block USB data in the locked state, and the phone is in the before-first-unlock state, cellbrite still can’t break into it

Especially those developed/maintained within US jurisdiction

This privacy-centric US phone carrier may or may not be a honeypot, but seems too good to be true. https://www.cape.co/

🙏🙏🙏

Another interesting deterrent is to poison unruly scrapers with infinite nonsense via Markov chains https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/

Is it really that hidden? If the training data predominantly comes from a website full of white supremacists, it will sometimes sound like a white supremacist.

Looks interesting, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of them and I’m wary about the CEOs ties to palantir and the fact that its a US-based company. I’ll wait for others to do some deeper research into the company first.

YouTube generally does that when I’m viewing embedded videos on a VPN. Works fine if you’re logged in and viewing videos on YouTube itself.

Most rigorous LLM paper

What’s the privacy policy of your website? How do you plan to prevent abuse of your service?

It’s called slopsquatting for hallucinated libraries that vibe coders use, but I figure it can be called the same for hallucinated URLs

Techbros don’t understand or care about consent

I’m betting that this administration is trying to get it to happen so they can use it as their Reichstag fire

Jim Crow 2.0?

Soo, notify them every day that you plan to visit in 3 days but only show up on some of those days?

Join the OpenRT discord server. The link can be found on their gitbook website. I believe they have some channels for Linux on the Surface 2

Edit: nvm, not sure about the surface 8, but maybe ppl there can still help

Just don’t use a VPN when creating an account, since reddit will likely flag the account as a bot/spammer.

You can and should use a VPN normally after you’ve created the account. Might be smart to wait a week or so after making the account to start using it on your personal devices though, just to seem less suspicious. Also, make sure you have MAC address randomization and no stored cookies if using the account on the same devices that you used with your banned account.