> Doesn't resize decently,

About HTML+CSS, that’s just incorrect.

Go and try Tailwindcss and then tell me how bad HTML is at resizing.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/responsive-design

Well in Qt layouts are native, no need of using an external project.

Tailwindcss makes using CSS easier, it’s still CSS underneath, which you can interface with directly if you want.

For medium to large applications it takes quite a bit of work to give your Qt GUI a custom style, and do it right. This isn’t something you can hand wave away.

This is a bad response to Apple stealing personal information from millions of people. OP is not alone when it comes to iCloud partially or completely enabling itself upon updates. The problem is that malware is perfectly legal as long as you have some EULA somewhere to cover it.

The hyperbole seems unnecessary and imo is unproductive.

You shouldn’t call it a hyperbole. Sometimes you have to point things out for what they are rather continue to pretend that it is normal.

Personally I don't let Safari store anything, so there's nothing to sync, even if it was turned on without my consent.

Nor the incentive. The one mentioned by OP sounds unrealistic.

Trackers will be able to gain root access by fetching the user’s local Docker API socket, and by doing so provide better personalized ads. This is really good, sign me in!

Social media and media organisations are too volatile to be entrusted with important pieces of history.

I can’t even access the tweet.

It must be sarcasm.

In reality, people don’t have the time to read up on these issues to build an opinion in the first place. The most potent media corporations that could’ve amplified this issue for the general public are effectively propaganda machines for whoever pays the most or has the biggest guns to their heads.

It’s a sad state of affairs. Most of the public are unaware that a cage is being built around them.

But those who do have some understanding about these threats, they certainly are increasingly more distrustful.

> It’s a sad state of affairs. Most of the public are unaware that a cage is being built around them.

Plenty of people want the cage. I don't mean that disparagingly but don't know how else to put it.

Life is hard and can be scary, there are a lot of people who would rather have a cage with someone else in charge than deal with it themselves.

I don’t think the concern here is TLS, but rather how CloudFlare works. This is a unique problem to CloudFlare. TLS itself is not the issue.

Nothing wrong with TLS. It's just funny how author suggests that someone actually cared about Snowden revelations.

It's like "We were worried about mass surveillance after Snowden so decided to host everything directly on FBI servers" because CloudFlare is exactly this.

A decade late, but there's a draft bill, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38185720

> a Frankenstein bill more than 200 pages long, combining the choicest parts of a stack of cannibalized privacy bills that rarely made it past committee. The patchwork effect helps form a comprehensive package, targeting various surveillance loopholes and tricks at all levels of government—from executive orders signed by the president, to contracts secured between obscure security firms and single-deputy police departments in rural areas ... The GSRA is a Christmas list for privacy hawks and a nightmare for authorities who rely on secrecy and circumventing judicial review to gather data on Americans without their knowledge or consent.

That's actually a great news. At least some legal barrier is better than none.

And it will keep getting worse as long as the majority of the population lack proper core values to oppose it.

The majority of the population lives in poverty. It's very-very difficult to have any values other than survival while poor. There's also very slim chance poor people to be educated. They work 12h/day at jobs where they can't even go to toilet. When would they have the time to read about a bootloader?

This is the core problem. A person should be able to refuse attempts once he understands the goal. The problem is not technology, but the obfuscation through it (and privacy policies, lobbying).

I don't think it's a values problem. The technical issues here are complex. Can you explain bootloader locking or remote attestation to your grandmother?

Personally I think a better approach is to push the phrase "right to recycle and repurpose" as much as possible. People get that. Everybody personally has seen the unsettling amount of e-waste that passes through their ownership and into a landfill somewhere.

Right to repair isn't enough, because these restrictions don't block you from keeping things working the way they did when you bought the device. Recycling and repurposing is something everybody can understand. It answers the question of "wait don't only evil hackers care about that?"

How does it follow though. Bootloader locking and remote attestation don't stop you recycling devices or even repurposing them. They stop you changing the OS stack to an unknown one and then using them for the exact same purposes as before. That's much harder to explain and it boils down to in most cases, people still in love with the idea that one day a hacker/grassroots OS may become popular. Which is fun for developers to imagine but has no relevance to any end users.

>Bootloader locking and remote attestation don't stop you recycling devices or even repurposing them.

Not even close to true.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43jywd/why-tens-of-thousands...

Anti-theft features aren't anything to do with remote attestation, and this feature does not stop recycling the devices, it just means that only Apple can recycle them. Which would likely be true anyway due to how integrated the components are.

> Anti-theft features aren't anything to do with remote attestation, and this feature does not stop recycling the devices Activation Lock relies on a remote attestation mechanism. It will not unlock without a connection to Apple's servers and can't be bypassed on the device.

>it just means that only Apple can recycle them. Which would be a problem

>Which would likely be true anyway due to how integrated the components are. You don't need Apple to melt down gold

It's not enough for the majority of people to oppose a trend. There are plenty of issues where trends continue despite scattered opposition from the majority.

Widespread activism could make a difference. If it becomes a major point of contention in elections, that could make a difference. These don't happen 'by default' though.

True, but at the same time, if your grandma's identity was stolen you'd be more likely to be willing to discard some freedom for the sake of security.

There's a general willingness to trade incremental freedom for security in many arenas but ascending that gradient is a hard sell

False dichotomy. Security does not have to come at the price of freedom.

What security can be obtained without sacrificing _any_ freedom?

I wonder if you travel by plane, and if you voluntarily consent to the full body scans in European and USA airports? Or do you oppose it by opting out?

I believe that the values are mostly present. They just don't have many easily understood and widely known ideals to compare to.

> Added to this are worsening geopolitics, the difficulty of eliminating carbon emissions and the travails of an ageing population.

Worsening geopolitics and an ageing population are more immideate problem compared to the inability to eliminate (not reduce) carbon emissions.

Or am I missing something? Can someone explain to me why ”eliminating carbon emissions” was sandwiched between the other two issues?

I suspect because of the also mentioned "own goal" of eliminating nuclear power despite not having green alternatives.

Germany has more than enough alternatives for nuclear power. The situation would have been even better if not for some brain farts sabotaging the movement to alternatives for various reasons.

The big problem is that has Germany has big dependencies on coal, gas and gasoline, for industry, heating, and cars. Nuclear power can't replace this at all. Which is why Germany is shifting around usages and started investing big in hydrogen.

Yes, but they could have kept nuclear until the reactors were end of life to have more time for the transition.

Instead, they frantically closed them and now coal consumption increased. Case in point: Lützerath.

They did, most German reactors are ancient and were past the recommended life-time. And coal consumption did not increase because of the closing down of nuclear reactors.

No? Why did it increase? You know a lot of reactors were closed early. What filled that demand?

Carbon emissions are also long-term plans. When you open a coal mine (which they do) or plan for increasing nuclear power, you have to plan decades in advance, which is why we should have started all this yesterday

If it’s offline, bundle it with Electron, release the source code and make the build process public!

have you tried installing it as a PWA, much less work :-) but i will write it in our product backlog

I have not. I will look into it later.

The issue that many people were raising is with regards to privacy (not saying your app infringes upon it in any way). If PWA deployment can ensure that the app truly stays offline, then that’s a good thing.

I personally like open source better, as it is easier to examine the inner workings of the app. It also helps tech-savvy users fix bugs and verify that it doesn’t do anything they don’t want it to do. Etc etc

Also, Electron apps can be sandboxed using Flatpaks for instance. Flatpaks aren’t perfect of course, but they do provide some guarantees. You can even use Flatpaks while keeping the source code closed.

It seems harder to validate that an Electron app works offline than doing the same with a web app or PWA...