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Hopefully not my last note 🙏

Coming to terms with the world not needing me.

Just set it up. Just been lurking on Nostr but man if I could build a community on Nostr and leave Twitter I would in a heart beat. That place is an absolute time and soul sucker.

It’s the only way to be truly sovereign. People don’t understand the power of the third party doctrine.

Lots of new users? Or lots of new bots?

I understand. The sad part is that Apple won’t die. People forget. Remember when Elon Musk stood up to Lula’s government and refused to comply. In the end, Musk complied, paid the fines, and X moderated the requested content.

Daughter: So we won a war against England and then we became American and being an American means we can do whatever we want?

Me: Well sweetie actually… yes. You’re absolutely goddamn right.

From what I see, Apple didn’t agree to a backdoor, but instead of pulling out of the UK, they dropped end to end cloud encryption for UK users. If they really cared about privacy, they should’ve pulled out. Now other governments are going to demand the same. How is this a short term win for anyone outside the UK?

Using Proton Drive and/or self-hosting for sensitive data—for the somewhat tech-savvy, buying a Synology NAS makes this pretty straightforward (though it's not open-source). There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube and the web that show you how to easily set up a personal or family cloud backup, and their photos app works great for photo backups. This would also allow people to self-host their own NextCloud instance on it.