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soal··on Zed: We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Oh, cmon, code editors are plenty. I read this in my inbox and uninstalled Zed. It's not my main editor though.
soal··on Zed: We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
«ARBITRATION NOTICE. Except for certain kinds of disputes described in Section 15.2 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), you agree that disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration, and BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AND ZED ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. ALTERNATIVELY, CUSTOMER MAY OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION PER SECTION 17.2(a).»

It's awful.

soal··on Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
Ha, I even started to receive spam mail in Polish (kind of "we got your webcam, give us money"). They're clearly using the collected data and are subject to the same problems.
soal··on Losing faith in UX
Ahaha, it could be a good premise for retelling «Romeo and Juliet» for modern IT crowd)
soal··on Threema Goes Open Source
Looks like it does. On Android it has entry in menu "Maintaint connection to server" which creates persistent notification. Notifications worked on my un-googled phone.
soal··on Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers
This joke was already old fifteen years ago.
soal··on Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
You are not alone. My work machine is Mac and after Fedora with GNOME on personal laptop I feel constantly annoyed by basic UX stuff like window and workspace management.