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

“Got it, I’ll send you fewer unsolicited dick pics”

YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it’s “got it, we’ll show you fewer shorts”. Zero. I want zero.

If it’s for waking up at a scheduled time, why not go with a dedicated alarm clock that only needs a wall plug and maybe a backup battery?

I’d argue that it’s not the population at large, but the millionaire and billionaire class that needs to experience maximum discomfort. You might have noticed that private jets started getting turned away from busy airports just before the vote to end the shutdown happened. Making the wealthy uncomfortable does more change in the US than making life more difficult for people on the brink of poverty with no safety net.

Accountability. When the AI causes measurable harm to an individual or group, will the owner of the service be held accountable in the same way that an individual would be? I doubt it. The corporations will just pay settlements and keep doing everything in their power to avoid being held responsible for what their AI says or does. People are too trusting of corporations and anthropomorphized software.

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

The latter is true. Phone needs to be in BFU to work against cellbrite, I figure. Lockdown only turns off biometrics and makes the phone unlockable with a pin or password instead, iirc.

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

Did anyone check on the Meta engineers in the goon cave?

I opt out by never connecting it to the internet.

More dark patterns. Lovely.

Their solution? Pair up teenage girls with 65 year old men.

“It’s all Biden’s fault”

I use LACT. My use case is just to adjust the fan curve to keep the fans constantly running, since I hate the sound of them starting and stopping all the time.

It worked pretty well for Facebook

Hand holding? Believe it or not, straight to jail.

People will pay for an AI girlfriend, and OpenAI will still be losing money

Soon, you’ll get targeted ads for all the fetish content you share with OpenAI’s chatbot. Also, if it’s too obscene, you’ll have the police knocking on your door.