Each popularity-contest host is identified by a random 128bit uuid (MY_HOSTID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf). This uuid is used to track submissions issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.

Oh, and by default, IP, unless usetor is enabled

A machine I’d is just a hash too

Can you explain to me how you track Mac address, serial numbers over the internet.

Just fyi, the backend project I made 20 years ago was hardware related. There’s potential reasons to grab this info…

But, if it is a concern, I’m sure they’d welcome submissions to improve the parsing and allow things to be filtered.

In fact, popcon could be used for digital fingerprinting technically

In all likelihood, op never spoke to the manjaro developers either

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Don’t like it, don’t opt in

Even Debian has popcon

There are lots of benefits for developers to gather telemetry.

Don’t like that? Fork and do your own distro (presumably though you don’t contribute anything to open source, so id expect such people to simply whine and get angry at contributors)

Yeah… I used to sell Apple gear.

When Apple announced the Mighty mouse 20 years ago, everyone was super excited. There wasn’t much info, and we were almost wondering if it was a touch sensitive button on it.

What we got though was a mouse which gave you RSI any time you clicked the right button.

Now, I have a Mac Studio. Every PC has the power button on the top or front. This guy? Nah, lets put it on the back! And the M2 is a professional machine, so lets ship with 8GB ram only… And MAKE IT SHARED VIDEO MEMORY!

And lets stick an ARM chip with no raytracing on it, because thats what people crave

Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow

Yep. I hate clickbait. You’re a legend

Of course it has. It says everything you need to know

Maybe they should be investigated for all the child porn they used to host and the TD contributions to the riots

I don’t see the point. It’s like twitter. Never saw the point of that either instead of lemmy or Reddit honestly

Hopefully we get DP over USBC soon on the m2 Mac studios

I have housemates. And cameras and dogs… But you’re normally right

Facebook definitely is.

My post on the weekend telling people where I was travelling to ensure if I disappeared they’d know where to find me for deleted for cybersecurity reasons

Yet, I regularly report abuse, bullying, porn, etc and the AI moderation never sees any issues

And every single post there now is:

Lol 😂 Newline newline new line

Repost repost…I am an obvious bot. Often I am a stupid car meme mocking EVs and solar, etc

Yeah. That was admittedly the big issue with Australia. With VFR it was useless unless we used Orbx in the days

Not because they wanted to, but because they had to…

That’s not really odd. It likely caches decompressed assets and such.

I wish there was a way to hide the synopsis.

I like watching movies and TV without knowing the plot of what I’m about to watch

Lots of people seem to be using it fine daily

Maybe you need to switch distro and check your hardware

Or if you’re getting lots of crashes, contribute code or money to get them addressed. Otherwise it’s clear your priorities aren’t straight

Yeah. Last thing I want is to deal with all the anti-environment, anti-EV pro-extremist right wing toxic-macho shit bots.

Quality, not quantity. With too many people, moderation begins to fail

It’s pretty much copying lol. It has no idea about patents, or unique ideas. It basically just takes every unique idea and pretends it invented them because it doesn’t understand

And that’s the problem

It’s basically just something that tries to take credit for everything.

This isn’t college.

And that’s not how AI works.

AI literally just copies bits of lots of sources and cobbles it together.

It has no idea what any of it means. We learn via experience. AI models won’t

If I write a reference book, I need to reference my source if I’m quoting things. Even if I saw it in 2 different books .

AI does not

Question… if there is only 1 source of information on a topic, and AI needs to reference it, what happens? It basically just copies it and changes a few words. No reference to the original author. It doesn’t even know.

If I read a book into a podcast and change a few words, take credit and don’t give any to the original author is that ok?

It’s not AI. That’s a marketing term like blockchain. Its just a combined data scraper with some random data.