21st century, whole app suits being build by AI. Windows still can't forward a UDP port.

Ok, so lets get just a few examples. Mobile modems (of all types), have mostly a signed radio firmare. You cannot load a changed code. They said it's for what? For security. Here is an example, how this locked-down modems are used against journalists in a western country:

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I can already hear "but this is not related". You know WHY it may seem to not be related? Because there are no modified radio firmwares which detect and block stingrays, because no one developed them for a simple reason - you cannot load those into mobile radios. Why? Because those are locked. So this is a clear example, where a FORCED SIGNED CODE is used against the owner of a device. This should had never happened. Another example is the recent Apple addition in iOS 27 in the UK and Australia. Apple abused the fact, iPhones have a locked bootloader which makes it impossible to bypass a request for a credit card or an ID. If you don't supply one of those, your phone turns into a dumb toy. So again, something presented as a "security" feature, in this case a locked bootloader, is used to force something on a device OWNER. This time, it's a behavior control territory, because if you don't comply you have to change your behavior because of limited phone functionality. Yet another example - the famous Volkswagen APP. So Google presented Play Attestation as a security feature. And yet again, the feture was used to block Graphene users from using the app, despite Graphene being far more secure than a stanard "google attested" phone. Yet another is Google Developer Verifier lock-in. The EU is already trying to push hardware attestation through for their "ID apps", which would force every phone user to use only a phone with a locked bootloader, which in turn makes it possible to force chat control on their devices. A truly evil plan. So please forgive me, when I already started being allergic for such magical (hardware) security features. But from what I can tell, and judging by government whishes and coroporations greed - those can, and at some point will be used against every single human being in one way or another. And also, I will add my call, as usual, to keep an eye on the TPM, because Microsoft may try to use a frog boiling technique, to force every windows user to run only in a secure boot mode, which will make impossible to modify the system, and will allow Microsoft to control what the user can and cannot do on his own PC. View quoted note →

WRRRR AGGRESIVE WEB SCRAPING WRRRR Ok, so many of you were probably hit by aggresive web scraping bots. Here is the deal, I'll be short: While you want to get rid of the bots, and keep the data for yourself, there is a high chance, this is not scraping at all. I suspect foul play here. There is a high probability, that big "official" companies overload sites to close access for other scrapers, particulary for open weight models. (and slow down AI evolution) So my advice: don't cut off the bots completely - let them scrape, just limit them. If you block them completely, you may be doing more harm than you think. If you want open models to exist, and work well, don't cut off all the access.