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It's interesting that this is highlighted in a British paper, as this is due to EU regulations that the UK will soon not be bound by. And the British government has already announced that they are ready to "seize the benefits of Brexit" by cutting down on such business hostile regulations as privacy [0] and human rights [1].

I would guess that this change will be rolled back in the UK as soon as it becomes legal.

[0]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-laws-to-boost-br...

[1]https://theconversation.com/why-uk-approach-to-replacing-the...

Playlist for iOS 5 years ago

It is probably to make it harder for Google/Apple to remove the app, or for Youtube to justify blocking the app from working with their videos.

This is very different for people. I have some issues with my sight causing pages that are mostly white to be painful to look at. Over time, it triggers migraines. But I know people with the opposite issue. So as an accessibility feature, websites should offer both modes.

You might need to retain some data for potential future refunds, for example.

Then that would be a legitimate interest, and you could store that information for a period of time that is reasonable for processing refund requests.

But you would be barred from using that same information for a different purpose, e.g. the loyalty program.

GDPR article 25 requires systems to be have privacy built in, so a system such as the one you describe where a separation of these concerns is impossible, would probably itself be in violation of the regulation.

As an outside observer (European) this seems to be the way the American prison system is run. The inmates are not viewed as humans by the people responsible, enabling horrible conditions.

Fixing such an issue should be top priority, and in the meantime, you would revert to pen and paper accounting to ensure the correct release of each prisoner.

I have no idea what the benefit of the EEA is for it's members

We have the option to reject certain EU-rules, and can negotiate special exemptions into our agreement. Norway has some exemptions in fishing rights that are central to our agreement. Under the previous government we also rejected the EU Postal Directive, though the current government has since accepted it.

I think you are a bit too optimistic on what employers are willing to expense. A note-taking app falls far outside what most workplaces that I know of in IT would accept. In reality, I am afraid that you are excluding a large group of users.

Personally, I would pay 25$ out of my own pocket for this app, but not if I have to ensure that the notes are not related to my work, only to my personal life. And with my personal projects I use similar technologies as I do at work. Should I then not look at the notes when at work? It is just to complicated to live up to the terms of the license.

As several people have pointed out, both the "Personal" and "Catalyst" licenses are intended for personal use only, making this quite an expensive product should I want to use it for work as well. But in the full license text, there seems to be an even more problematic phrasing:

The use of OBSIDIAN for the exercise of your own trade or profession (...) does not qualify as personal use.

I would interpret this to mean that I as a developer can not use this to exercise the "trade" of software development. That would in turn mean that I can not use this to make notes of stuff I learn on my own time, if it is related to software development.

I would imagine most people not caring about this kind of license limitation, but it would be interesting if it was intended this way, or if this is just me being bad at licenses.

Yes, it plays on "generation Z" and the "boomer generation". I believe it is commonly used to refer to people born after the turn of the millennium.

That was a complete waste of time.

I think that's a bit harsh. It's an article explaining simply, but effectively why you should probably not use toString(). Just because something can be summed up in a sentence does not make it a waste of time.