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Which were never a thing in MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, Amiga, Atari,...
That's not true. MS-DOS and Amiga supported ANSI escape sequences, I remember that very clearly. Through MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2 would have had some form of support available. No clue about the ST
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Why not? I want the features I use to be maintained. I am dead tired of advanced features being removed from applications I use. With web applications every single round trip to the server is logged, inherently, and there are far more than one round trip to the server than there are page loads, I assure you. So it's ok there? "oh that's just logging, not telemetry." That's what telemetry is! Google and Facebook track…
xterm, or urxvt, or bash, or nginx, never removed any advanced features, and they managed to do it without telemetry, and did it over the past few decades. amazing, how is it possible
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I would call that malware. Telemetry is just malware with a marketing department.
> Telemetry is just malware with a marketing department. Malware is more broad, and includes things that don't send any information back, like viruses. Telemetry is spyware with a marketing department.
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Note: Hacker News is not exclusively for "news" (nor exclusively for "hackers" for that matter).
Yeah. Tbh, I haven't seen any news that would be significant for hackers in particular, the posts are mainly for software Devs.
We definitely have cracking articles here from time to time (legal ones with responsible discosure or hacks of defunct games or software), even cyber writeups.
Hacking just means, hacking together. Its your weekend project to wire up your flower beds to your computer so you can monitor on your phone.
The majority of hackers are not people in cyber gangs perpetrating crimes, they are more like tinkerers.
There are lots of software people who absolutely do not hack in their free time, and lots of hackers who are nor software engineers. Hackers tend to build some great stuff, though, so you do see it in industry stuff a lot.