They also like trying to sabotage the economy when they’re not in charge by telling others it’s shit … and there is evidence trump tried to delay deals last election

Don’t be surprised if he did the same to undermine Biden this time

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)

Depends on the country and where it was recorded

In a lot of places, it’s completely legal to record if he’s part of the conversation.

If he was not, in many places it’s illegal

If it’s a public place where there is no expectation of privacy, also possibly nothing you can do

That would explain partly why he’s supporting Trump now.

Trump may have threatened to enforce it unless he complied

Yeah… I’m wrong. You’re right

I’m sure internationally everyone loves dealing with a guy who breaks contracts.

Mate, you’re just spitting out numbers…

Trump already said f you to our ex prime Minister. You think Trump gives a toss about foreign investment?

If Trump does what everyone expects him to, it’s even possible he’ll get in a position where he loses allies

World leaders in general don’t like trump.

He’s openly being a Nazi now. If it’s a cutthroat win, he’ll start prosecuting anyone he disagrees with to Guarantee control. If it’s a huge win, it’s less likely. Don’t forget, there were a lot of people affected by the Nazis, and he is openly being a Nazi now

But he’ll do whatever he needs to do to have ultimate power.

Don’t think world leaders though will bend over and take it from the golden diaper man… They’ll simply tolerate him. Especially since he has a reputation for breaking contracts.

And he’ll find every excuse he can to not pay either (if we send wool for instance, he’ll find a few grains of dirt, claim it’s low quality and than demand a refund or he’ll send it back).

Don’t underestimate the risk management other world leaders use on him

I have plenty of friends who just became Aussie citizens.

One literally was less than a week ago

What newspapers are saying and what’s actually happening is two different things

I was joking about asylum, but there are many paths of entry

Firstly, I live in Australia… We have lots of migrants here. So yeah, I’ve seen the policies. In fact, I get along better with migrants than many multi generation Aussies

And yeah, calling them refugees was part joke, but part truth. There are lots of ways to enter including work or study. If Trump wins, its possible he’ll mess up so bad he’ll be overthrown within 4 years (that’s the worrying thing. I lived in Indonesia during the riots). So, anyone migrating might not need to last long (even the right wing will realize they fucked up bad)

Considering how many people Trump has pissed off including our ex PM, I don’t think countries will hesitate as much as you think…

You need to come here to Australia mate.

Honestly, I feel like there are going to be a lot of refugees from the US if Trump wins

The biggest issue with Linux at the moment isn’t the os. It’s the community, and because of that, they keep scaring off developers, and ironically many developers only stick around now because they’re hired by a large company

I’ve seen so many developers (including myself), who got smashed by the community so we just gave up

It has definitely gotten better though (vastly) in the past 20 years

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

Another one straight from Facebook…

Sigh

Egh. Are we going to start posting every Facebook car meme here now?

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

I down voted op because it feels like he’s doing the classic bully maneuver where you seemingly either agree with this post, or he’s implied he’ll call you part of the hive Mind or whatever.

Also, personally, I don’t believe op genuinely cares about the answers.

Something tells me that you’re not at fault…

We have similar extremist dickheads here similar to trump (but Trump helps give them power too).

And yeah… It’s absolutely clear trump won’t change his behavior. That became clear after he had a second judgement filed against him for defamation by E Jean Carroll, and he can likely be sued a 3rd time successfully. He really is dumb as dog ****. Could have spent the rest of his life playing golf lying about his profitability. Instead he chose to offend half of the country, and draw attention to himself and his crimes by bragging

There seems to be a few people suddenly calling Biden racist too, and trying to say both parties are the same. If it quacks like a lobbyist, it is possibly a lobbyist…

But yeah. This is overall probably due to the election more than anything.

People like me (I’m Aussie) will even up vote some things simply because I can’t imagine how bad it would be for Trump to win again… For the entire world.