This is the first step in moving to fully closed source. I guess degooled versions are getting too popular thus a threat to google's business.
All of these already sound shady.
Laughs in GrapheneOS.
In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I'm in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.
OpenSuse is already by itself a well rounded distro. It supports multiple desktops out-of-the-box, is highly customizable so it doesn't really need forks.
Wonder how they'd manage that as they both are E2EE.
It can't be removed. That info comes straight from the hardware itself (UEFI and individual devices).
They didn't use very comprehensive research methods. Also they only used Github.
First, from the GHTorrent data set, we extract the email addresses of GitHub users. Second, for each email address, we use the search engine in the Google+ social network to search for users with that email address. Third, we parse the returned users’ ‘About’ page to scrape their gender.
a bias against men exists, that is, a form of reverse discrimination.
How is it reverse discrimination. It's still plain old discrimination. I'm starting to smell a biased research here. Or at least the researchers have a bias.
It's good to live in the EU where such terms don't apply.
If I read it correctly the "fuck off" level refers to some proprietary app for the selected login. The other two are standard code app and yubikey.
I'd say a good rule of thumb for a beginner is not to touch anything outside of their own home directory. Modifying or deleting files in other locations is an easy way to break your system.
Laughs in FreeTube.