C’mon it was worth a shot.

Remember how amazing the original NFTs were?

You can opt-in to encrypting those backups so Apple have no access.

Yes. I believe a small percentage of Apple users do this. Unfortunately that doesn't prevent Apple from reading your messages from the backups of the vast majority of people you correspond with.

So funny to think about this now.

Our email systems are mostly mediated by giant hyper-scale companies (Microsoft, Google etc). The location of mail servers being where the recipient is seems quaint (and wonderfully decentralised).

And even if we do manage our own servers they are automated, and apps often containerised. Nobody ends up with older MTA due to an OS upgrade.

Remember reading this like 20 years ago nice to see it again.

Thing is there is no reason Microsoft’s Linux distro wouldn’t be just as horrible to use “out of the box”.

Just like with browser rendering engines it’s much better if there is variety out there in the ecosystem.

That’s not to say you’re wrong.

I wonder if the eradication of the heroin supply from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover has had an effect?

Possibly re-directed some of the fentanyl to other markets where addicts could no longer get heroin? Thus reducing supply elsewhere?

At least in Europe the heroin gap was mostly filled with crack from Latin America.

iPhones regularly do these queries before / in addition to to A/AAAA. They’re used for more than ECH.

Agreed the author here just dumps data but nothing that seems to be designed to disrupt comms in Venezuela is really mentioned.

Joseph Fourier enters the chat…

You need to take care of them though. Scratched CDs don’t play good.