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the proposal is from a red-hat team member and is proposing addition of "privacy-respecting" telemetry. here's the link to the hyperkitty thread

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[–] sherlockandghibli@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

dude, i could not have been more simplistic with the title, and added both the threads for the post. yes, people are gonna get mad, that's what a general thread on the internet is. if you want actual dev discussions, go to the linked threads. if i tried to be more like, "guys don't harass the devs, they're definitely not in the wrong here", you know what that would've led to, and i just tried to avoid that. there are plenty of projects that don't need or use telemetry for development, including linux (i think, i'm pretty sure). it's great that they're being honest and open about it, but this coming just after red hat issue is what prompted me to start these threads. so yeah, sorry if this is frustrating for you, but this thread is not a ragebait, and i apologize if this does seem like one...

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No need to apologize, I'm not mad at you, I found this thread while checking if someone had already posted it before doing so myself.

That's the worst part, to be honest, it's not even ragebait yet people just take everything at face value and start to spread FUD.