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Very similar to the antifa rhetoric that we have seen over the past few years. I am not sure how alt-left is good and alt-right is bad when it seems that rioters are all assholes.


Why would anyone install this period?


Because there's a global pandemic in progress and it helps with contact tracing. Privacy concerns and public good are not mutually exclusive.


I think the point worth making is that a bad tracing app is a lot worse than no app at all. It’ll incorrectly give license to people that have been exposed to continue going going out. It’ll incorrectly isolate people who haven’t been exposed, it’ll destroy businesses based on false positives and it’ll destroy the credibility of effective lockdown measures.

Given what we know of the uk governments competence, I would want a strong study indicating its effectiveness before I go anywhere near this.


I loved geos, wow.


It's no myth unless you are gleefully that ignorant.


Just make it so word documents don't look like garbage.


(LO-Dev here) It is one of those "death by a thousand cuts" situations. We have fixed a ton of issues, but there are still a ton more. Sometimes the formatting changes between versions of Word. Sometimes the formatting is off because we have bugs. Sometimes Word has a bug, and then we have to figure out what that bug is and try and have the "same" bug.


Although it is a valid point, you are missing that it's Microsoft who prevents everyone from doing it [0].

[0] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/case/complex-sing...


Unfortunately that very presentation in the OP looks very much like it was done in LibreOffice :( Something about the formatting is just off.


Openbazaar


This is what most companies do. I worked for companies 20 years ago that would let you move to anywhere they had an office but you would be paid according to that location.


Also poor people when given the chance will eat junk food. Many poor people are not poor by chance but poor by stupidity.


99% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem.

Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.


Yeah, essentially all these DIY fixes to surveillance involve majorly inconveniencing yourself and being a technical expert to maybe achieve what they're suggesting.


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That got dark quick


Also 99% "of the population" doesn't use Android.


> Today, it is estimated that more than 5 billion people have mobile devices, and over half of these connections are smartphones. [0]

> Android's smartphone share is hover around 87% [1]

> 7,600,000,000+ human population [2]

( 5 billion * 0.5 * 0.87 ) / 7.6 billion =

29% of the world has an Android

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/02/05/smartphone-own...

[1] https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os

[2] https://www.census.gov/popclock/


What? I thought Android has market share in the billions. Where do you live? Mars?


Billions = 99% of the population. Oh I see. Okay.


Oh man. I remember paying for CompuServe. I tell you, nothing beats a 1200 baud modem on a commodore 64


I see your 1200 and raise a self-built 300 baud modem with loads of blinkenlights and switches, housed in a wooden enclosure only slightly smaller than the C64. Hey, it worked, I was a poor student. Initially I had to dial the BBS using a rotary phone, later I added a pulse relay to automate dialling - 19th century here I come!


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