You don't need this to count unique users. You could just assign a random number on install or whatever. Or even more simply, just run the thing once per month, should be accurate enough. Do they expect the software to just randomly spam duplicate reports? Don't write it that way.

Best case they don't care about collecting minimal data and don't understand that hashed MACs are easily reversible. So incompetent fools with no sensitivity to privacy.

Maybe this should be Manjaro's tagline: Not purposely malicious, just grossly negligent and ignorant.

Debian popcon is opt-in, first of all.

https://popcon.debian.org/FAQ

Q) What information is reported by popularity-contest ?

A) popularity-contest reports the system vendor [1], the system architecture you use, the version of popularity-contest you use and the list of packages installed on your system. For each package, popularity-contest looks at the most recently used (based on atime) files, and reports the filename, its last access time (atime) and last change time (ctime). However, some files are not considered, because they have unreliable atime. For privacy reasons, the times are truncated to multiple of twelve hours.

[1] i.e. the dpkg Vendor field, see dpkg-vendor(1).

So no fucking MAC addresses and machine-ids and harddrive serial numbers and stuff.

They only want package statistics, the point being to have statistics about the popularity of packages, mainly so they can be prioritized for the CD/DVD isos. You know, information that actually has a use, not hardware identifiers that can only be used for tracking purposes.

That's not anonymous, that's pseudonymous.

What is the point of this? The machine-id already looks to be some unique random number, so you're calculating another unique random-looking number from that, might as well use the original number.

You can't glean any useful information from a unique random-looking number that would help with developing Manjaro. You can't calculate any statistics from that. The only use is tracking.

Edit: And as mentioned in my other comment, reversing the MAC SHA by brute force is trivial, so that one at least (and possibly the other hardware serial numbers they collect) shouldn't even be considered pseudonymous.

How is this reasonable, they're traumatizing the kid why exactly? 10 year olds are out on their own all the time in Germany and aren't being chased by police.

This API instead

Instead of what? As I said, this is in addition to existing tracking, with some vague promise that if current tracking methods were banned or abandoned, this could be used instead. Except it's not getting banned (Mozilla is not going to out-lobby Google) or abandoned (market forces prevent that), and why oh why would I want some alternative way for ad companies to get my data in that situation anyway? Let them die.

Now if another person is going to repeat this nonsense talking point, which you have picked up strait from Mozilla's corporate PR, I'm going to lose my mind. Have some critical thinking skills. They are giving away your data right now and they give you nothing in return except a nonsense promise of a fairytale future.

Please I just want a browser that acts in the user's interest only, does not work with Meta on adtech, and does not think it's their duty to save the ad industry from itself.

Isn't it TSMC that's building a factory in Arizona?

This is an Israeli surveillance drone looking at an attack. I've been looking at Ukraine war footage, and that's the viewing angle of most videos out of that conflict. They have eyes on the target and then call in a strike, and observe the strike so they know what the result is. Only sometimes do you see things from the POV of the attack drone, and even then that's usually just a second angle.

And it's not a mine. You can see some projectile coming in in 1 or 2 frames before the explosions.

Then again, the CCP has never ruled Taiwan either…

Oh yeah that's like exactly the same situation.

1. Send US military to "protect" one side in the Chinese civil war and occupy parts of China.
2. Say you're in favor of eventual peaceful reunification, but actually prevent it for decades.
3. Break promise and claim the territory was never really part of China to begin with.
4. Pretend you're the victim and China is "expansionist".
5. World War 3?

Attempting complete eradication is not necessary under UN definition, and in Srebrenica, 8000 people, far from all Bosnians, and not even the majority of people in Srebrenica, were killed, and that's still an official court-approved genocide. The convention says "in whole or in part", after all.

This is not negligence. This is obviously willful intent. They're starving two million people. They know what the result of that is. They repeatedly bomb civilians. And they know they're killing civilians. They know they're not bombing military targets. They do this over and over. Repeatedly doing genocidal acts implies genocidal intent, you don't have to go off of rhetoric.

The government of Israel are not liberal Zionists, so I don't know why you bring that up even. It's not genocide because not everyone in Israel wants genocide, just the far-right and the far-right government? What argument is that? That's pretzel-brain speaking.

Also, most Israelis know what's going on. Anyone who still supports this now after what has been going for over three months, while arguing self-defense, is either lying or completely delusional. Maybe they don't like to think of themselves as genocidal maniacs, but they're still supporting genocide and coming up with excuses why it's okay this time. Liberal Zionists that don't want this to stop immediately are still complicit. And again, that's irrelevant when the far-right is in power. That's still Israel, as a state, doing this and guilty of genocide.

Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, is saying this in an interview with German mainstream outlet Der Spiegel, and this is here reported by Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Independent. Your assessment: Russian propaganda.

Yes it says that exactly, unless you think the "armed groups" shelled themselves.

Why would aliens come here?