I backup to my computer. It actually has more storage than iCloud and I don’t trust any cloud with my private data.

Everything turns to shit in the end.

The $1m is being donated personally by Tim Apple. Not from Apple Inc., so bears no relation to Apple’s revenue.

No, the French company manufactures them in Poland.

You can actually (indirectly) torrent on iOS via seed box. I use SonicBit, which has an iOS app. I find it’s actually more convenient than torrenting directly as the files are stored and seeded online yet still accessible to me when I need them. Then you can download the files to your iPhone/iPad.

How can someone have four simultaneous citizenships?

My kids are entitled to 5 citizenships. 2 from me and 3 from their mum.

With the proliferation of actual illegal material on Signal

Signal???

https://proton.me/mail/pricing

We should be glad that WhatsApp with E2EE is what people jumped to, instead of Facebook Messenger

WhatsApp is part of Facebook. You really think they operate differently?

The cons feel they didn’t screw the young enough with Brexit, so they’ve come with this ingenious plan to actually finish them off. And some numpties will still vote for them.

People who know that their own actual kids won’t be sent. Just the poor kids whilst their own kids get bone spurs.

The only truly stupid thing is assuming we know it all.

Which is exactly what religion does.

And the problem with heavy automation, as Japan is finding, is that machines and robots don’t generate the income tax revenue needed to pay for an aging population. Hence Japan is finding it necessary to allow more immigration.

the attacks on civilian infrastructure have the actual military goal of breaking resistance – which is known to generally not work, hence why it’s a war crime.

I think it’d be a war crime even if it generally worked.

she sleeps with a piece of thorium under her pillow.

Yikes!

She thinks that nuclear radiation has healing properties

In a way she’s actually not wrong. That’s what radiotherapy is. Focused nuclear radiation to heal cancer.

Xitter

Is that pronounced “shitter”? Very appropriate.

Meanwhile, Iran actually has a seat in parliament that is reserved for a Jewish representative.

That argument holds no water. Germany and France have bigger tourism industries than Britain. Neither of them have a royal family costing them a fortune.

I live in Europe and I don’t use WhatsApp. Never have. Hasn’t been a problem for me.