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RedHat's new motto is ‘how could you tell we were boughgt by IBM?’

@gamingonlinux I actually think It is OK yo have that kind of telemetry that is used to know how fedora is used so It can be better enhanced. I prefer It is off by default and I can enable It if I want. But the important thing is what is collected, if It can identify you or not, and what use they make of It. So.... Lets wait until a definitive proposal is made and then we can worry with a reason.

@gamingonlinux ... Sure?

@gamingonlinux maybe I have missed it, but neither in that article, nor in lwn.net's one there's a single word about who is proposing that addition. And I'm probably putting too much behind that, but RedHat seems to be turning into Microsoft from the 00s 😐

@gamingonlinux "My goal with the telemetry change proposal is that you only need to trust Red Hat to be not actively malicious."

Wonderful, not only because he wrote that, but decided it was fine to publish as well. The GDPR handwaving is kinda worrisome too

@gamingonlinux Not gonna lie, I would be less skeptical of a "privacy preserving telemetry", if it didn't come in the middle of a hot streak of bad decisions from IBM Red Hat.

@gamingonlinux feeling better about my plan to switch to OpenSUSE…

@gamingonlinux I mean sure but all they'll find out is that people are installing proprietary codecs that they removed last month anyway

@gamingonlinux so assuming this goes ahead, what's a good alternative to fedora that offers a similar balance of stability and up to date software?

@gamingonlinux Time to come back to Debian