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meatcider··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
> It's a hotkey that essentially no other software uses for the same behavior

Except for Windows Explorer, but who uses that, eh?

Your level of empathy is immaterial to the conversation, but thanks for sharing.

meatcider··on Scotland rejects independence
Check your facts, the result in '79 was a Yes.
meatcider··on Why Scotland looks like the canary in the independence coal mine
We can only hope that they do, even if only from a point of principle. Although it will make no difference to the operations of the Five Eyes organisation since they don't respect geographical or political borders anyway.
meatcider··on Why Scotland looks like the canary in the independence coal mine
Although Scotland would at least have the choice as to whether to apply to join or not. Choices it does not have at present. If Scotland remains part of the UK and a future Westminster government (which Scotland would be unlikely to affect at the ballot box) initiates an in/out EU referendum how much do you think Scotland's opinion would be worth?
meatcider··on Why Scotland looks like the canary in the independence coal mine
Well, from a Scottish viewpoint we've only ever been invaded by one nation in the last thousand years…
meatcider··on New Zealand just abolished software patents. Here’s why we should, too
It's generally Good News, however NZ is a member of the TPPA negotiations, and a willing one at that under their current right-wing government. I'm not up on the details but I'd not be surprised to learn that the provisions in the TPPA will include some kind of software patents and that this will over-ride local law.
meatcider··on China’s Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage
If security is a concern then it's not really different than servers in any other country. Who'd put anything of importance online at all? Cat GIFs is about right. It'd be fine as second-string backup I suppose. I couldn't work out the point of mobile app being involved in the sign-up process though.
meatcider··on Mailelf - simple encrypted email for everyone
I hadn't realised you'd need to compile it from source. Oh, well, there goes the accessibility.
meatcider··on Mailelf - simple encrypted email for everyone
How are you protecting against the likelihood that the US Government will require you to install plaintext intercept capabilities into this (for decryption keys, etc.)? (And also that they'll gag you from revealing this, open source or not.)