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The headline seems confusing after reading this paragraph:

> Furthermore, the now-approved AML package will apply after three years from its entry into force, according to Dillon Eustace.

So it’s not illegal “now”, but will be after three years or longer?

What if a user enables Advanced Data Protection (end to end encryption of everything stored on iCloud) on their Apple devices? How much does that change things?

> Finally, I'd like to share what I'm viewing with friends and family such as a movie screen or a 3D model fixed in the same position.

Within the Apple ecosystem and services, that’s what SharePlay is. This is already available on the Vision Pro.

Whether Apple is non-compliant and if yes, to what extent, will be known weeks or months after this is rolled out.

John Gruber, writing on “Apple’s Plan for DMA in the European Union” [1]:

> I’ve emphasized throughout this piece the word proposals. That’s key, because no one, including Apple, knows whether the European Commission is going to find any or all of them compliant with the DMA. Apple has met with EC representatives dozens of times across several years regarding the DMA, but the way the EC works is that (1) they pass laws; (2) companies do all the work to attempt compliance with those laws; and only then (3) does the EC decide whether they comply. Companies like Apple don’t get to run ideas past the EC and get a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. They have to build them, then find out.

I loved this ending in that post:

> The delicious irony in Apple’s not knowing if these massive, complicated proposals will be deemed DMA-compliant is that their dealings with the European Commission sound exactly like App Store developers’ dealings with Apple. Do all the work to build it first, and only then find out if it passes muster with largely inscrutable rules interpreted by faceless bureaucrats.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/apples_plans_for_the_dma

NextDNS seems to be maintaining its DNS infrastructure, but the mobile apps are almost abandoned and don’t even work many a times. The NextDNS forums have a lot of posts without any assistance or response from the main team.

To me, it seems like the founders are not focused on customer support or making the NextDNS ecosystem better.

> Not to mention that every “polyamorous” society eventually settles into polygamy—-and that’s poison. Expect a reckoning when that happens.

I don’t understand this statement. Is having multiple spouses (which is what polygamy is — husbands or wives) a poison compared to having multiple lovers?

> Privacy

> I don't think I need to elaborate this point.

I think you do need to elaborate. Bitcoin may need specific actions depending on what one desires and what one’s threat model is. But completely dismissing the privacy part is not helpful. I’ve used Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for some payments that I wanted to be private. I couldn’t ever have done that with conventional payment systems without more exposure than with the cryptocurrency.

As someone who’s been into some cryptocurrencies and later realized what bitcoiners have been saying all along — I’m a bigger believer in Bitcoin than I was when I started. Not too much on Bitcoin as a currency, but in its potential to hold value over the long term. I haven’t had the chance to try Lightning for payments yet. The other one that I prefer to use for payments is Monero.

This is one more inevitable step in machine generated images.

My main objection to this site is that the prime example, “Mindy”, definitely does not look like “a girl next door” but rather looks like a model or like someone with near-perfect body measurements. The latter is not what people understand by “girl next door”. It’s more like “my dream girl next door” for some boys and men.

I’m sure there’s a “market” for machine generated images of “girl next door” and “boy next door”, but this one is not it (as of yet). The other image sets on this site are too small to judge anything.