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On one hand: That's a really good point. Thanks. On the other hand: Everything can now steal my data " just " so adverts can be shown. Really?! To me that's more outrageous than th…

> Can someone shed light on this? Whoever is in charge of the permission system is absolutely nuts. Or it's designed by the committee from hell. Those are the only reasons I can th…

Because (it feels) like it's not possible to properly debate the subject in public. As a little/normal person the answer is always the same: "But but what if it was your mother/gir…

But drugs are awesome :D Completely depends on the drug, person and context. The painkillers when I dislocated my shoulder and they had to reset it? Wonderful. The antidepressants …

one of the best approaches I've seen is to silence them without their knowing it Shadowbanning does work well but requires (somewhat obviously) fair admins/moderators. Otherwise it…

Interesting, I touch type okay enough but don't use the pinky for symbols/ENTER. I use the ring finger of my right hand for symbols/ENTER and and the pinky for just the shift while…

Ha, I don't use loyalty cards because of the tracking but I never thought of the price difference that way, it makes sense.

Some great examples of this are the several occasions UK banks have screwed up and left people without access over weekends or just after payday [1] [1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/br…

> On the other hand I think this will drive people away from Windows and towards OS X and Ubuntu. They already pushed too far. Was a life long Windows user, used at home for gamede…

As a European that still effectively screams "secret court" to me, just with some word games around it. Part of the problem is the US also broadly applies "Top Secret" to too much …

But the voters are being purposefully misinformed by that very same government. It's literally circular reasoning. Your argument would hold more weight if the people voting were ac…

> As a citizen, you are expected to trust the FISA court. This opinion is just nuts. Trust a court that you were told for years didn't even exist? A secret court? How about no. Sec…

A. The Snowden revelations show the US has spent years being dishonest about their programs. You'd be silly at this point if you think there is not a huge database of American comm…

How does this work with digital stores (Steam/App Store/Play Store)? Do you even get that data from them as a developer?

I was thinking it was part of the site's name, as in "kivi-kak-kee" or they just dislike .com/.co's. Similar to many start-ups and tech projects being hosted on .io (Indian Ocean) …

> I don't see how the conclusion would be anything else, with merely a moment's thought. Well it depends what side you are on! :) Anecdotally, in the UK many older people will clai…

> I didn't think I could be surprised, given that the UK hands out "anti-social behavior orders," but now they want to hack the trolls? I can kind of see what you're getting at and…

To me it seems like Human history. European countries (and their various incantations from the past) spent hundreds upon hundreds of years competing and fighting with each other ot…

Out of interest, why not a "Web ui"? Do you use Qt for a desktop client or an app? I'm writing a sort of personal "life tracker/history application" and decided to go with a Web UI…

An OS is a product of course, but to me it's on a completely different level to "just" an application product. It has access to everything, I want to be able to trust it and know e…

Telemetry in a specific product? Fine. Telemetry in my OS* that has access to everything ? No. * That I cannot turn off.