Good times.

Sociopaths. > The UK government made a broader attempt to force Apple to provide “backdoor” access to private customer data than was previously known, a new court document suggests. > The legal filing, seen by the Financial Times, indicates that the UK government sought access to not just an optional extra layer of encryption but Apple’s standard iCloud service as well. > It also suggests that the Home Office is yet to modify its demand for Apple to grant access to data belonging to customers outside the UK, despite claims by Trump administration officials last week that the British government had “agreed to drop” its effort to tap American citizens’ private information. https://archive.ph/2025.08.30-034705/https://www.ft.com/content/fe2c9ae1-d175-4eb9-909e-0b171f6d097c

gm, good people. ☕ Have a great weekend.

Nashville's little Parthanon on a date night with my bride, @Samah.

NPC, also known as an MVH: minimum viable human.

First mini music festival of Fall.

"I was banned" humblebrags are so 2024. We have nostr. Use it.

Today, Ive been Omarchy-pilling Bitcoin devs at @Bitcoin Park. Nice.

Omarchy

Omarchy

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux by DHH

tl;dr We don't know, but mostly, it doesn't. YOLO. "Most claims of 'success' by international bodies and national authorities are unsupported by relevant empirical evidence. The claims are routinely contradicted by massive scandals in the financial sector." https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665 cc: @L0la L33tz @Nick Anthony

Sats on sale.

I was in the room for the one on the left. Cut from a different cloth.