imecth

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you actively consent to everything that happens around you? When you pick up an apple, do you consent to the pesticides used on them? Truth is, everyday of our lives we passively consent to a myriad of things to other people that know better than we do.

In this case no matter how many ways firefox is telling users that they have no reason to be worried, they keep clutching their pitchforks in the worry that firefox has suddenly turned into google (who btw have to abide by privacy laws just the same). There are no informed here, only pitchfork wielders.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yes, which means they don't want anything from them.

And yet they're using the application. Don't you want the applications that you use to work better? This is what telemetry enables, the ability to give feedback without jumping through 10 hoops, creating an account, responding to a survey, or whatever other method you're thinking of to give feedback.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I will tell them what I want

You might, but 99% of users will never take a step towards giving any feedback whatsoever.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades

They actually did not, almost every software out there is mining your information. Software developers rely on and need data, you can't guess what people want. Whether it's from studies, testers, surveys, or telemetry, developers need information about what users like, what they don't, how they interact with the software... This is what makes data so valuable, and why businesses like Google can exist. Denying open source software telemetry is shooting yourself in the foot.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

glub glub much?

That's a nice way to start and end a discussion.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

You can customize the caps lock behavior on linux if you want, i have my caps lock work as an additional control button.
On Gnome you can do it from the Gnome Tweaks app.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

The problem with that line of thinking is that soon enough it wasn't the parents fault but the fact that their dog died 5 years ago and they never got around to getting the vaccine. Might there be mitigating facts? Sure, but at the end of the day, it's either the parent's fault or the state's fault for not making sure the kid got vaccinated.

And btw immunocompromised children are rare enough to be a rounding error.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The article talks about the safety of vaccines... Reporters have to walk on eggshells to avoid pointing fingers and insult part of their audience.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait for one month for the new GPUs to come out, wait for the drivers to catch up, wait for the benchmarks... Or just buy a tried and tested GPU right now.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah there's some romance, but there's barely any sex. You can only romance one character at a time and there's like one short cutscene per character, with some being a fade to black, in a 100 hour long game.

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