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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by fireshell@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, built on the basis of Arch Linux and aimed at beginners, announced the beginning of testing a new service MDD (Manjaro Data Donor), designed to collect statistics about the system and send it to the external server of the project. The author of the MDD intended to enable telemetry by default (opt-out), but the decision has not yet been approved and, judging by the objections of some developers and users, it is likely that telemetry will be offered as an option requiring prior consent of the user (a request to enable telemetry is proposed to be added to the greeting interface after the first download).

The report includes data such as host name, kernel version, desktop component versions, detailed information about hardware and drivers involved, screen size and resolution information, network device MAC addresses, disk serial numbers, disk partition data, information about the number of running processes and installed packages, versions of basic packages such as systemd, gcc, bash and PipeWire.

The sent data is stored on the project server in the ClickHouse database and visualized using the Grafana platform. The IP addresses of users are not stored, and the hash from the /etc/machine-id file is used as the system identifier.

Аccording to the code https://github.com/manjaro/mdd/blob/master/mdd.py#L40 sends everything.

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

As the release period was reduced to a month, so 0.1 0.2 0.3 began to appear and so every week

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 62 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Mull was fixed in the DivestOS repository as early as October 17th, but to do this you need to add to F-Droid and reinstall Mull.

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

I will be original. Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on Gossip

The builds are prepared for Linux and macOS. Additionally, the desktop client, web interface and console interface are being developed.

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

by this logic it turns out that the code quality control system is built in such a way that if someone has malicious intent and wants to add malicious code, but is not affiliated with dubious structures, then he will easily succeed? Hey, what about enough eyeballs and shallow bugs?

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linus set a very bad precedent without causing any real damage. Clearly he was "asked" to do it, but then he did it himself.

One day, Linus might become a traitor - a traitor to the people who followed him. And a traitor to the cause he served all these years. You were the chosen one! You were supposed to fight evil, not join it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linus Torvalds Confirms Decision to Remove Maintainers from Russia

You couldn't come up with a more powerful spit in the direction of FOSS. And from Linus, who is now kind of showing f*ck to the entire community. Here you have freedom, openness and all that. Today they just wiped their ass with it, and by one of the founders.

This is the moment when the split politics, dirty ones from all sides, have penetrated into the very heart of OpenSource - into the Linux kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it's a pity that politics is penetrating more and more into open source and FOSS.

recently support for Russian cloud providers was cut out of opentofu. https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824

now this. this is, of course, natural the core and many components of modern distributions have not been free in terms of decision-making for a long time and are under the influence of large companies, which in turn are under the influence of the USA.

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

I was particularly pleased that the developers accidentally published a bunch of other code that they had not planned to publish. For example, the code from the ShoutCAST server. https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

Durov, as a citizen of France, recently sent them away when they asked for access, and then flew to them to test the strength of democracy. Imbecility and courage.

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Is there anything there besides a video about Linux with 5 views? Maybe some unique blogs? Or at least reposts of channels from YouTube? Maybe collections of music videos?

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 41 points 5 months ago

It's always great that there is an alternative, although I use LibreOffice myself.

[-] fireshell@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

“If you can’t win, lead.” Systemd development is in the hands of Microsoft employees. systemd has taken over almost all of Linux. Experts answer - in whose hands is Linux now? :)

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