binomialxenon

Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud that's led by the original Owncloud developer, and it seems to be more popular with the free software and Linux community. It looks like both are still active.

I don't have any problem with just searching strings such as "coffee shop [city name]", etc.

Sure, centralized services are popular, but there's nothing unrealistic about decentralized/federated ones, it's not a pipe dream like the blockchain craze. The main difference in end-user convenience is the difference between "@username" and "@username:server.net".

No admission of responsibility of course, just scapegoating. I find it highly likely that Pai and his like-minded cronies were in on this the whole time.

It's good that they revised that ridiculous restriction, but I think they should go further still. It was disingenuous to advertise the iPad as a "computer replacement" when having an environment for Python coding (widely used for beginner programming) was essentially banned. There really should be a way to work in even compiled languages on iDevices.

Why not Popsicle? It doesn't have to be strictly candy.

> Shutting mic, camera and sensor data off for idle/background apps is neat, though I'm shocked that wasn't an option before.

I wonder if they'll ever get around to letting the user limit or deny internet access to applications, something that Cyanogen/Lineage has had for years.

I see your point that most people don't want to dig into the nitty-gritty details, but I don't think it'd hurt to be able to mark applications as High, Normal, or Low priority for memory and CPU use.

Filling out some forms with whom?

Ugh, I can't see any advantage that would justify my terminal emulator running on Electron.

I understand the case for interoperability between different media sources, but what looks like a glaring omission is that nowhere on this page does it mention whether it is a pro-DRM concept or not. If it does support artificial restrictions it doesn't solve the problem of "not actually owning your content" (their words), which is a problem created by DRM.

Clearer wording on their site would be welcome.

I'm not sure exactly what your needs are, but Bleachbit seems be pretty similar in features.

Bleachbit can do the same things, and is free software with no spying.

Or, take a third option and use a non-spying browser??

The repository system on Debian, Arch, Fedora is clearly not a walled garden like Apple or Microsoft's app stores. Any site can host a repository that you can add to your package manager's sources, and you're free to install .deb/.rpm packages from any source you want, not to mention tarballs or compiling from source code. Also, there's no motive for lock-in like mainstream app stores have.

I don't think people expect old clients to be maintained, but I generally don't like auto-updating. I don't want my computer to use CPU, disk I/O, or network bandwidth for updates except when it's convenient for me. Also, in some cases it can be worth it to stick with an older version if a newer version introduces a bug or something.

> ...and more processor architectures than most other kernels could dream of touching.

I don't think it comes close to BSD, Linux, or even QNX in that regard.

Hey, whatever it takes for us to get to RISC on the desktop.

I use both the F-keys and Home, End, Insert, Delete, PgUp, and PgDown on my laptop. The two use cases can co-exist, but it seems Apple doesn't want to bother appealing to those who want both.

Ubiquitous surveillance is the last thing we need, just the next step in turning the US into an authoritarian nightmare. I don't know who would want to live in a world where robo-cars would call the cops on you for jaywalking or minor non-dangerous traffic violations.

On a side note, the Google Play Services running in the background on most smartphones have already been mapping traffic hotspots and measuring business patronage by time of day.

In the US, you can already easily get a state Photo ID that's the same shape and size as a driver's license. Not exactly a new concept, many people already have them but not a license.

While this is applicable to a lot of things such as appliances and cheap furniture, I wouldn't apply it so broadly as a rule. Plus, many new things just haven't been around long enough to tell. 5 years is absurdly short for a car, most seem to last between 15 and 30. I have several working computers, cell phones, and game consoles between 5 and 20 years old.

The trend of making computers and phones nigh-unrepairable glass sandwiches is awful though, as soon as the battery or other major component is toast the device is practically worthless. It's infuriating how far backwards we've gone in that aspect.

Apple is probably still the least bad of the four, but their dealing with China doesn't exactly inspire confidence from me. If they are willing to include code to censor the word "Taiwan" in iOS, who knows what else they are willing to do to appease governments. Also let's not forget they are part of PRISM and seemingly lied to the public about it.

The other three (Google, Amazon, and MS) are straight-up spyware/surveillance and barely even bother putting a pretty face on it.

Yeah, I agree, it's amusing how the author considers this to be going paranoid or something. And the link from the word "privacy" to Apple's website seems a little bit product-placementesque.

I'm moderately cautious about privacy, to the point that i use a free OS and software, encrypted messaging, no smartphone, etc., and I'm evaluating my options on what to do about the Intel ME. Using an adblocker and Apple stuff is like the tip of the iceberg.

While I agree with your concern about Google's enormous market share, Google isn't the sole owner of web search, and you're free to use another search engine instead. I've been using DDG exclusively for about two years already.

It would make much more sense to regulate ISPs, as people are "stuck" with them and don't really have the option not to use internet.

If I visit a "small personal website" such as a blog, they're not going to know much more about me than my IP address, which pages I viewed, and possibly an inbound link ID.

One of the big things I find scary about Google is the sheer centralization of data. For a typical user of Google services, Google will have their complete browsing and search history, including "incognito", 24/7/365 location history, hundreds of voice recordings (perhaps some taken without user intent), advertisement tracking data, the complete email inbox and outbox, IM history, Android application history, documents and other files stored on Drive, contacts, possibly call and text history, and thousands of photographs (including ones intended to be private). There's a lot of harm one could do against a person with that kind of information.

I'd wager a guess that the majority of Windows users use a Microsoft online login. Also, Office 365 and OneDrive are both widely used, and there's Skype, Xbox, and Hotmail/Live Mail/Outlook/whatever.