joiqj

One of the reasons I hate exceptions overall. Someone may add new ones, they break the control flow, they bubble up all over the place, etc etc. They are basically indomitable.

As part of my standard (and pretty lame) OPSEC I always change the default names that apple gives its devices (like "Joiqj's iPhone") to a more generic name (like "iPhone"). Nice to see that it was good practice.

If I had to pay for every worthy free product I use every day...

There have been tons of alternatives and they all sucked in different ways - either they were bloated (no, a news reader does not need "far more features") or they weren't free.

And then people started writing code in Python.

How do you know you didn't get 2 to 4 days with snow per year 50 years ago?

Do you trust your government's historic weather statistics?

Once an electronic ID is created it will be enforced, perhaps even to log into the internet, and anonymity won't be an option.

The EU busybodies are not your friends.

Some people think they are above everyone else and that others should not be able to scorn their behaviour.

The tumblr site asks me to log in if I want to continue seeing posts after I get to the Futurama one :-(

Of course it can be ignored. I am ignoring it.

That's not true. The law restricts what companies can do with my data even after I consent to their treatment of my data.