They're complying by making the backdoor irrelevant. The only way they didn't comply is by ignoring the truly absurd part of the order to backdoor users globally, which was never going to fly.

And no, I did not say they should shut off iCloud in the UK. They should continue to allow people in the UK to use iCloud, and the advanced encryption feature. Right now they're reportedly adding code to detect UK-based phones and prevent them from using these features.

“Apple is not complying.”

Apple is complying. They've turned off the feature for UK customers.

Not complying would be to continue to allow phones in the UK to use the feature, possibly shutdown all UK-based Apple infrastructure, and force the UK government to entirely block Apple phones from contacting Apple's servers outside the UK.

Note how many of these problems are a direct result of absurd levels of unskilled immigration. This is a very easy problem to fix. But the Liberals won't.

The Expanse.

I really want them to at least do a spin-off series about Laconia.

Lolwut? Among other things, the Trump administration has finally removed the restrictions Biden placed on Ukraine using US weapons inside Russia. That's a huge and very welcome development. Trump is also talking about making a deal with Ukraine to trade access to Ukraine's military wealth for military support – a perfectly reasonable deal. Conveniently, the richest mineral wealth in Ukraine is occupied by Russia...

Trumps gunning to get both Ukraine and Gaza.

Re: Gaza, if you just sold the land to property developers you could have them pay for the cleanup. It's prime seafront real estate. Indeed, prior to Oct 7th Gaza had lots of luxury seaside resorts aimed at the Muslim market.

Another option would be to just stop sending Gaza aid. Even before they declared war on Oct 7th by murdering over 1000 Israelis the Gazan population had grown so much their economy couldn't actually feed themselves. And the obvious consequences of declaring war have made that problem much worse.

No-one owes anyone else food. If most of Gaza starves to death, that failure is on them. Not anyone else.

One thing I love about this presentation is it's obvious that while what they're doing is very dangerous, they're not reckless. They're shown spent literally months carefully preparing and thinking through how to do it reasonably safely. Good example to set for aspiring viewers.

Octopus would be interesting. How does a human mind map to a decentralized nervous system?

Do I retain memories of my time as the animal? Do I have my normal human intellect during that time?

Is this a one time deal? Or do I get to change back?

I gave you 1000 SATs for correctly specifying Wiz's mempool, rather than "the" mempool.

Good job!

That'd make sense. You probably heard of it because of the environmental impact research.

Nope. It was publicly known since at least 1996 when the documents on it were declassified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century

By 2016 scientists were already studying it to determine if it was an environmental hazard.

Camp Century wasn't a secret the way you're implying. The Wikipedia page on it was created in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century

It's been publicly known since 1996 when the documents on it were declassified. The Danish government was informed about it prior to construction, and the Danish government already had an agreement with the US to allow military bases to be built on certain areas of Greenland. The Danish government did not explicitly approve of Camp Century, which was built outside the agreed upon areas. That's an interesting story: https://www.sciencenordic.com/denmark-forskerzonen-history/how-the-us-built-a-mysterious-military-camp-under-the-greenland-ice-sheet/1451993

Bitcoiners need to stop lying to themselves. While this was arguably a win for El Salvador, by negotiating better terms for IMF loans, it's clearly a loss for Bitcoin.

El Salvador still has legal tender laws. They're just USD only.

“e.g., the Crimea region of Ukraine”

Good example of how stupid sanctions get. Russia itself – the economy responsible for the invasion of Ukraine – is not sanctioned yet the invaded part of Ukraine is.

It makes farm more sense to apply broad, common sense, sanctions where they really make sense (obviously, if you're doing trade with Russia right now you're funding an invasion), and redirect the money wasted on this massive bureaucracy to just blowing up enemy assets.

Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries has been more effective than all other sanctions combined. Case in point: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Ukrainian-Drone-Attacks-Disrupt-Key-Russian-Oil-Export-Route.html

As with Alice's transaction, Bob's transactions can also be rebroadcast by anyone after they expire from mempools. Mempool expiration is an entirely optional, node-local, feature, and I'm sure plenty of miners have disabled it for obvious economic reasons.

Also, transaction expiration should be based on the oldest transaction in a group of dependent transactions. IIUC, Core does not do this already. But if it did, that attack wouldn't work as using the about-to-expire transaction would reset the expiration timer.

Obviously. 10,000 EUR isn't much cash to invest over time if you use cash regularly; if you don't use cash regularly, WTF are you doing?

Missing from this discussion: use cash.

The #1 way to achieve financial privacy is to use cash. If you don't, your KYC-free bitcoin purchases are going to stick out.

"But I get points!" "But cash is dirty!" "But tap to pay is so convenient!"

Fuck off. If you're unwilling to use cash you're just a lazy piece of shit.

It works fine if you actually have contacts that use it. If you don't, there's nothing it can do to help you.

Go to some Bitcoin conferences and find some people who do use it.

Thanks again for letting me know! I would have never noticed that. 😂