I’m disgusted and angry at this. Not at Apple, but at our government:

Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.

The BBC’s Zoe Kleinman has the details of what’s happening to Advanced Data Protection in the UK.

Matt Webb:

Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life. Oh except that it does work as well as those other platforms, if that’s what you want, that’s the magic. Also all the good people are here.

He’s hit his 25 years of blogging. For me… that’s next year. Blimey.

What are the best RSS readers on Android and Windows these days?

Peter Bihr:

Rather than accepting that tech happens to society, we need to put societal needs first, and then examine how we want and allow tech to play into that.

Seth Godin:

Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and addictive.

It’s always encouraging seeing new banks of EV chargers popping up. Today, it was my first spot of chargers on a National Trust property: Nymans.

A charging station is situated along a pathway with parked cars and a person walking in the background.A row of electric cars is parked at a charging station beside a white building.

I sometimes find it depressing how rarely I actually see people in their gardens.

A collection of small sheds and structures is surrounded by overgrown vegetation in a wooded area.

Laptop stickers state of play, Feb 2025. My somewhat venerable M1 MacBook Pro this morning.

A laptop is decorated with various colorful stickers, including logos, designs, and images from events and brands.

Mary E. Dozier:

Compared with the general population, participants with hoarding disorder scored almost universally high on altruism.

Fascinating.

Best cover ever.