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Don't pay any attention to people giving you shit for using translation software. A lot of us sometimes forget that the whole world knows a little English and most of us native speakers have a ridiculous luxury in getting away with being two lazy to learn a few other languages.
I wasn't annoyed about it, I just said it might be good to mention because people will notice anyway, and at this point there's enough AI slop around that it can make people automatically ignore it so it would be good to explain that. I'm surprised I got downvotes and pushback for this, I thought it was a common view that it's good to disclose this kind of thing and I thought I was polite about it
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Unfortunately opt-in telemetry is like no telemetry at all. Defaults matter.
No telemetry at all is a good thing to some (most?) people.
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Telemetry isn't the same thing as spying on the user. People use it because it's not actually spying on them.
It is literally spying on the user. Unless you're somehow saying telemetry doesn't report anything about what a user is doing to it's home server.
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Like Signal users. The only thing it signals is that the user is interesting. There is also a reason why it is not allowed for classified use.
This isn't true, this is the sort of toxic "if I have nothing to hide then why value privacy" ideology that got us into this privacy nightmare. Every single person has "something to hide", and that's normal. It's normal to not want your messages snooped through. It doesn't mean you're a criminal, or even computer-saavy.
Like the Casio watches, travelling to Syria, using Tor, Protonmail, etc…
When it is better in reality to have a regular watch, a Gmail with encrypted .zip files or whatever, etc.
It does not mean you are a criminal if you have that Casio watch, but if you have this, plus encrypted emails, plus travel to some countries as a tourist, you are almost certain to put yourself in trouble for nothing, while you tried to protect yourself.
And if you are a criminal, you will put yourself in trouble too, also for nothing, while you tried to protect yourself.
This was the basis of Xkeyscore, and all of that to say that Signal is one very good signal that the person may be interesting.
Why isn't there a decently done code editor with VSCode level features but none of the spyware garbage? Any recommendations? This seems like an easy win for a software project
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In my mind, the difference is that spying does or can contain PII, or PII can be inferred from it, where telemetry is incapable of being linked to an individual, to a reasonable extent.
Every single piece of telemetry sent over the internet includes PII - the IP address of the sender - by virtue of how our internet protocols are designed.
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No telemetry at all is a good thing to some (most?) people.
Telemetry can be implemented well. The software you use gets bugs fixed much faster since you get statistics that some bugs have higher impact than others. The more users software has, less skills they have in average to accurately report any issues.
Try talking to your users instead.
> The more users software has, less skills they have in average to accurately report any issues.
No amount of telemetry will solve that.
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This isn't true, this is the sort of toxic "if I have nothing to hide then why value privacy" ideology that got us into this privacy nightmare. Every single person has "something to hide", and that's normal. It's normal to not want your messages snooped through. It doesn't mean you're a criminal, or even computer-saavy.
Mhhh it is not really about “nothing to hide”, it was more that if you use niche services targeted at privacy, it puts a big target on you. Like the Casio watches, travelling to Syria, using Tor, Protonmail, etc… When it is better in reality to have a regular watch, a Gmail with encrypted .zip files or whatever, etc. It does not mean you are a criminal if you have that Casio watch, but if you have this, plus encrypte…
2. Using a secure, but niche, service is still more secure than using a service with no privacy.
Sure, you can argue using Signal puts a "target" on your back. But there's nothing to target, right? Because it's not being run by Google or Meta. What are they gonna take? There's no data to leak about you.
If I were a criminal, which I'm not, I'd rather rob a bank with an actual gun than with a squirt gun. Even though having an actual gun puts a bigger target on your back. Because the actual gun works - the squirt gun is just kinda... useless.
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Disabling telemetry might be interpreted as a self-indicated signal of "I have something to hide", so they jack up the snooping.
Or "I'm a power user" of sorts. Probably a very small minority of users fiddle that setting. Dang said a similarly small minority of users here do all the commenting.