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> In 1999, NetBus was used to plant child pornography on the work computer of a law scholar at Lund University. The 3,500 images were discovered by system administrators, and the law scholar was assumed to have downloaded them knowingly. He lost his research position at the faculty, and following the publication of his name fled the country and had to seek professional medical care to cope with the stress. He was acquitted from criminal charges in late 2004, as a court found that NetBus had been used to control his computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus

My point is that it does no such thing – it doesn't hold up as a valid argument (which really is the bare minimum for something to even be considered as potentially true).

TLDR; Continuous "General and indiscriminate retention" is not compatible with EU fundamental rights.

[0]: https://europeanlawblog.eu/2021/06/08/big-brother-watch-and-...

  - Two wrongs don't make a right: Someone behaving unethical does not excuse unethical behavior from someone else.
  - There is a difference in the power dynamics of the relationships: Consumer and service provider VS citizen and state.

Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading all open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level; Alternatively as "tab-groups", but encompassing multiple apps.

I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.

I find it interesting (particularly from an HCI-perspective) that there hasn't been more research into the concept on an OS-level, as I can think of many times maintaining a set of application states for continued or re-use makes sense.

Your comment reads to me as if the concept of logical fallacies is only useful or valid within the framework of rhetorical competitions – or alternatively that logically invalid reasoning is useful if you're only interested in making a decision, rather than making a correct or well-informed one.

This makes me conclude that these types of solutions are really more about portability and making some sort of political point (the only thing users realistically control is first party authorization – nothing else); They certainly don't have any security or privacy-related guarantees.

    could protect against all sorts of abuse...

Isn't this covered by "situational depression" (adjustment disorder with depressed mood) VS "clinical depression" (major depressive disorder), and the fact that diagnosis entails excluding physical conditions that cause similar symptoms?

None of the various depressive disorders (nor other psychiatric disorders) deal with defining a cause, but with describing a set of symptoms.

    Could someone tell me how that inspection works? Are there researchers who are given the source code?

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/11/22620014/apple-corellium-...

I'm saying global warming isn't true because scientists believe it to be true (this would be a fallacious argument).

An argument doesn't get any more or less fallacious based on who believes in it (the authority, in this case) – that's not an argument in itself.

It might be reasonable (a useful heuristic) to lean to the side of the expert, but the fact that an expert believes something doesn't in itself make the conclusion correct.

Take pareidolia, for instance – it's likely been more evolutionary advantageous to see faces where there are none (and thus flee tot often), as opposed to not seeing faces where there are faces (and thus be eaten).

And in evolutionary terms, not everything that exists has some benefit. Some features just haven't been subject to evolutionary pressures; Not selected for, just not selected against. Vestigial features are prime examples of this.

The fact that an argument is fallacious doesn't necessarily mean that the conclusion is wrong, but there does (logically, by necessity) exist (at least) a non-fallacious argument for a correct conclusion.

https://cleave.app

Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.

[0]: https://nrkbeta.no/2017/08/10/with-a-quiz-to-comment-readers...

[1]: https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/this-site-is-taking-the-ed...

This is known as contextual advertising.

Surveillance is not essential to internet advertising – in fact neither ROI, effectiveness or perceived relevance (when compared to all alternatives, including contextual advertising) has never been proven.

It defines consent as “freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous” given by a “clear affirmative action.”

Pre-ticked boxes, for instance, are explicitly not allowed.

Indeed, IP-addresses are considered [0] personal data in some cases – which only really means that you need to follow the GDPR: have a legal basis for processing, do not process the data for reasons other than that for which you have a legal basis, delete it as soon as you no longer need it, implement protective measures, etc.

[0]: https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...