Both the UK and US are two party states. That's pretty unhealthy imo. You get the worst of polarization AND the worst of "we both like the status quo so let's not make an election issue".

That wasn't really the interesting part for me :-)

App store version 1.5 on iPad os 16.6

It looked fine while posting.

Dit blijft een volstrekt futiele exercitie. Zolang de marges groot genoeg zijn, vindt zowel het spul als het geld een route. Ondertussen wordt de hele bevolking in een massasurveilance fuik geduwd. Dus hebben we straks zowel een narco- als een politiestaat.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/economie-onderwereld-janneke-de-smet?share=5u4yPLXV2K71zTFJHxgATnYc6L7Yn%2BiuoAEk1zQG1t3SNYMTXmzQfNjtmeHcJ1A%3D%26utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton

Looks like the alt text didn't make it accross the Mostr bridge. Anyway, it's always interesting to compare parking costs to (10 m2 apartment rent × number of stories of the adjacent building). It's usually cheaper. Though if you compare it to 1/3rd story building (one that doesn't fully block the view) then it might get closer. Depends on your philosphy of air rights zoning.

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That moment when you feel the need to share an interview with Farage.

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Toch zie ik wel wat autocratische trekjes in die wet. Temmen betekent ook het kunnen inzetten voor eigen politieke doeleinden en staatscensuur. En het uitbuiten van de monopoliepositie om concurrenten - die daar niet aan meewerken - de nek om te draaien. Het feit dat Zensursula enthousiast is, is nooit een goed teken.

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"For rogue platforms refusing to comply with important obligations and thereby endangering people's life and safety, it will be possible as a last resort to ask a court for a temporary suspension of their service, after involving all relevant parties."

So basically a scenario where all EU internet providers, app stores, banks, etc are forced to block Nostr by any technical means available. If only a single user makes a death threat.

Likely scenario? Probably not. But the authoritarian tone has been set.

If you impose a million obligations, then the fact that the "majority" doesn't apply to small businesses is exactly zero comfort. And can change once the frog has a boiled a bit.

Typical EU propaganda move: introduce an onerous law that instantly kills any small business subjected to it, but then pretend it's fine because it's less work for these (now dead) companies than a theoretical situation where all 27 member status had introduced something similar on their own.

Execpt that's not how it works: individual countries stupid laws will see business leave to a competing country. The EU has much more monopoly power since leaving the EU has higher switching cost.

Where DSA is really a threat is in its use of App Stores as choke points. However that's a pre-existing threat that should be eliminated anyway.

* allow access to data to researchers

It's all there.

On the other hand:

* Where a content is illegal only in a given Member State, as a general rule it should only be removed in the territory where it is illegal

This is borderline imbecilic.

Some of the requirements are actually made uncessary by Nostr:

* Wide ranging transparency measures for online platforms, including better information on terms and conditions, as well as transparency on the algorithms used for recommending content or products to users

(Unless you use a closed-source client)

* A ban on using so-called ‘dark patterns' on the interface of online platforms, referring to misleading tricks that manipulate users into choices they do not intend to make;

(Unless you use a closed-source client)

Relays could also play the above tricks but they're severely restricted: they can omit stuff (easy to detect), but they can't insert ads (since it would require forging the signature of someone you follow).

"trusted flaggers"

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_2348

Although I don't think all of DSA is bad, there's two red flags:

1. Zensursula endorses it

2. It "protects our childern" (pedophrastry as Taleb call it)

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So the Dutch prosecutor seemed to back and forth on this over the months. At the worst times they would say: hey, it was your choice to remove control over the smart contract so you're responsible for the consequences. But most of the time the argument was that Tornado Cash / Peppersec was run like a business and it's *not* about merely writing code.

But even the latter is not comforting. Not being allowed to make money from a privacy-friendly product is a massive disadvantage in the market dominated by ad fuelled surveillance tech.

When Taproot? :-)

Yes, and especially interesting that it will be tested under both EU and US law at the same time.

Not until they make one without a giant grey square on it.