I would say that as an example, in most European countries the relationship between police and citizens is a lot more civilized. But them again this is my impression not sure if it's based on facts. I would sure consider this if I was planing to travel to the US.

Probably not really related but to me that update is stuck at 0KB. I wonder if it has anything to do me having changed country in the middle of the process.

What about java software running in the browser with unsecure certificates and full access to the system harddrive? because that's what we have in Portugal to fill taxes.

Afaik arduino has a sleep mode that uses almost no battery. so depending how how frequently you want it to call home it can last a really long time.

I guess having a link to share and the "own your own data"

Both of which you get with $FAVORITE_EDITOR and the syncing sevice of your choice.

it dos use the files as the database right? I like it. The text is a little too big for my taste. I might actually use.

Yes, because we had to come up with something quickly (this project was part of an experiment to learn React.js), it is simple and it seems to work.

You can easily adjust the font size by zooming in your browser.

I'm far from having any real legal knowledge on the matter, but I suppose copying the look and feel is different from looking so much the same that people might miss that they are two different projects. There are probably also some difuse border between look and feel and branding.

Or you can take the "for whom the bell tolls approach"

They almost lost me with the location selection... The world is a big place to only show 5 or 6 cities. then they lost me with that sequence of anonymous > please register. How's this even anonymous? either they are not linking the previous step to this one so there's no point in registering or they are lying about the anonymous part.

in the command line all unixes/linuxes Are pretty much the same. Personally I only run linux on VPSes and ocasonally in a raspberry pi for fun. Always only using the command line. so for distros anything really, ubuntu, debian, arch, centos, puppy... . for shell session tmux or screen.