Agreed. For a book with 2-4 authors and a reasonable degree of task separation, I can see how Quarto + Git would work better than alternatives..

I wish it worked well for collaborative writing (several people working on one document, often at the same time), but it really doesn’t - even for people with good grasp of how git works.

I understand the democracy issues, but Google Docs is the only one that can do it without version conflicts.

Many languages don’t have separate words for colours “purple” and “violet”, even though, physically, they refer to different (combinations) of light spectrum frequencies.

You do not have to be left-wing to find Trump odious.

Obsidian is free and, if you use any cloud drive, it can sync across devices without paying anything extra. I use it on my Mac, iPad and iPhone with full functionality.

I moved everything I had in Evernote to Obsidian last year. It is not a full drop-in replacement, but leaving Evernote behind more than compensates for it.

All main. corporate media in the UK have reported on it.

It is almost as if the people who have trouble distinguishing good from evil often also have trouble distinguishing legal from illegal...

It is not the left. Please don’t call them that. They are simply decent people. You don’t need to be left-wing to feel the need to oppose insanity, authoritarianism and shameless corruption.

This or similar notice appeared on PubMed and other NIH sites during every US government shutdown I remember (this is the fourth one since 2013).

I have many colleagues in Sweden, most of them non-Swedish, and none of them has ever said anything like this. Some are right now saying it is BS. But OK, slander on.

You are GUESSING what it is driven by. I disagree. I might change my mind upon seeing evidence to the contrary, but for now you have nothing but a cloud of free associations of things that have nothing to do with national IDs.

And even the brave resignation to tedium and time wasting will not prevent surveillance if your compatriots vote like morons.

You have a gut dislike for mass surveillance, and it makes you see it everywhere.
In reality, these kinds of systems empower others to avoid the time, the tedium, and often chaos of doing things the way they have to be done in their absence.

Everything else is just conspiracy theorising to justify your gut dislike of it.

“It is a system for control” - no, it is a system for efficient bookkeeping, first and foremost, and has worked admirably for decades. There are laws to prevent its misuse, and those who want to circumvent the laws don’t need national IDs to do so (see UK, Cambridge Analytica & Palantir).

Mate, check the Baroness Casey Report to learn to which depths and lengths name and race discrimination by the police can go in a country without national ID cards.

I will not go on because clearly you cannot be reasoned out of a position that you have adopted with no reason.