Like this ?

❌ Inflation

✅ Hidden tax

❌Tax

✅ Theft

🚨 Apple just told the UK government to get lost.

Faced with a demand to build a surveillance backdoor into iCloud, Apple chose to remove its strongest encryption feature (Advanced Data Protection) from the UK — rather than compromise security for everyone.

This is about setting a precedent. A world where governments can secretly coerce tech companies into compliance, outlaw even discussing it, and use "public safety" as an excuse for mass surveillance.

A backdoor for the "good guys" is a backdoor for everyone—hackers, spies, authoritarian regimes. The UK just made its citizens less safe while pretending to protect them. And other governments are watching.

Apple resisted for now. But if encryption is negotiable, privacy is negotiable. And once you let governments decide who deserves privacy, the answer is always the same: Not you.

#aksnostr

Is there a fairly simple way to generate a MIDI input using an onboard mic in Linux.

Essentially I want a laptop to 'understand' an acoustic #piano or other instrument in real time (even if it's just tones).

GM Nostr 🧡⚡🔥

A shitcoin pump & dump is a perfect balance between those pulling the rug and those standing on it. It's a zero sum game. This is because there's no valuable 'quality' to the asset.

For every dollar made on the upside, there's a dollar lost on the downside.

If you trade crypto, know that any profits you take are a loss for somebody else. And know that the only use case for whatever shitcoins you have, is to rip somebody else off.

What about #bitcoin? Well, Bitcoin has valuable 'qualities'. One of which is to provide a vehicle to store value.

When you buy it and hodl it, you actually improve these qualities.

When you sell it for fiat, the only one you're ripping off, is yourself.

Thanks for the offer. I'll buy you up to infinity coffees when we meet again :)

Split this into 21 million pieces ♾️/21m

On his migration, he may have come too close to some US beaches.

Make sure you don't end up looking like DALL'S PORPOISE!

GM 🫂☕️

Good morning!

Broached the subject of retirement with MrsM tonight… it didn’t go as I expected.

😕