Readit NewsThe Amtrack website also mentions:
Known as Maryland's “Queen City,” Cumberland was an early gateway to the West. Today, it is a bustling arts center and popular stopover for cyclists using the trail network between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
It seems like a point dear to the author's heart, given the way he highlights this and puts it in bold at the top of the article.
But while it sounds good on the surface, it doesn't take much digging to show it's silly. If you store any kind of data about a visitor to make their life more convenient, is that tracking? Shopping carts? Notification preferences? etc.
It's actually a bit ironic to ask visitors if it's ok to track them. If they say no, you have to track them to at least remember that choice.
If it is crucial to provide the service or the service is explicitely requested by the user (i'd argue a shopping cart is), I think you don't need consent (see Article 5 of Directive 2002/58/EC).
But then the governments will legislate against citizens usage of the technology. This is the logical next step in the over-reach.
No, given some exceptions (think dictators trying), that's not going to happen, right? At that point it's not a technological issue. You're talking about the right to be cryptical in everyday speech.
Edit: or, in a different approach, they'd have to forbid (private) use of (some) algorithms. Again, that sounds like you'll have bigger issues then, no?
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Sometimes they are quite different, or at least fit your style better than the default ones.
Seriously, I only use USB input devices on desktops to bootstrap the system, and then unplug them and tidy the system away.
For a few times now I've clicked that button by mistake (it's there in GNOME 43, just without the ">") and promptly turned off Bluetooth and had to go fetch a USB mouse from storage, crawl under the desk, and plug it in to turn everything back on.
Things being what they are, I don't think Bluetooth is the right setup for input devices.
UK and Scandinavia got to opt out of the Euro, for example.