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Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 7, 2020 at 03:04 PM
True, the Chinese provenance has always been my reservation.
But I really have to wonder if anything I put on TickTick could be remotely interesting to some Chinese lurker obsessively collecting data. Maybe. Or maybe not.
Posted by tightbeam
Dec 7, 2020 at 10:48 PM
If the Chinese have tasked their intelligence community with documenting what I have on my to-do list for next Tuesday ... I’m okay with that. Anything that really, really matters I don’t put on the cloud; as for the other 98% of my life, just ask.
Posted by Andy Brice
Dec 8, 2020 at 09:11 AM
jaslar wrote:
>The heart of the article, I thought, was this:
>
>“Consider instead a system that externalizes work. Following the lead of
>software developers, we might use virtual task boards, where every task
>is represented by a card that specifies who is doing the work, and is
>pinned under a column indicating its status. With a quick glance, you
>can now ascertain everything going on within your team and ask
>meaningful questions about how much work any one person should tackle at
>a time. With this setup, optimization becomes possible.”
Combining this thread with ‘The demise of native coded apps’ thread I feel I should point out that https://www.hyperplan.com does the above and runs as a native[1] app on both Windows and Mac. ;0)
Andy Brice
[1] Well 99% native, it is built on the Qt library rather than directly on the the Windows/Mac libraries.
Posted by NickG
Dec 8, 2020 at 12:28 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
True, the Chinese provenance has always been my reservation.
>
>But I really have to wonder if anything I put on TickTick could be
>remotely interesting to some Chinese lurker obsessively collecting data.
>Maybe. Or maybe not.
My own view is that the Chinese provenance is a red herring. Data online is the issue - if it’s really, really important that you keep it really, really confidential, just don’t do it online.
Also, let’s not forget that many non-Chinese companies have connections with China - via investment, or supply chain or whatever. We live in a increasingly connected world and it’s beyond the capability of all but a few to be able to function with absolute confidence that none of our connections go to places we’d rather they didn’t.
Full disclosure - I use TickTick, but I don’t care how knows the lamb bhuna ingredients I’m shopping for today. I use Notion and Roam, among others, but I don’t put client data, or anything personally confidential in either
Posted by satis
Dec 8, 2020 at 07:15 PM
NickG wrote:
>if it’s really, really important that you keep it really, really confidential, just don’t do it online.
‘Confidential’ should not be the standard, any more than the argument that ad companies may track you as much as they want (which ignores the considerable dossiers built up on people), or that you don’t care if the government listens in on lil’ innocent you.
As far as China goes all sorts of data has been exfiltrated to China to winnow out whom in the USA to track, so just because you’re boring doesn’t mean other damage isn’t being done. And drone and Strava users have been forbidden from using their devices near military bases because non-condifential info is nevertheless militarily valuable to the Chinese military.
We see the clampdown China has on its own citizens, disallowing VPNs and requiring licenses for all mobile apps (to which they can access data), and we do know about Chinese efforts to collect swathes of data, confidential or not, about American, Korean, Japanese and European citizens.
If a Chinese company wants to sell me a product into which I’d pour personal information, I’d need that data to be held somewhere politically neutral (or at least not in China). TickTick is a nice product, but there are a large number of competing products which offer much better data policies.