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Do you remember hearing the news of #Google trying to enable #telemetry by default in the #Go programming language? Apparently they've been doing the same with their #Flutter UI toolkit all this time 😐 Their docs also mention that "By downloading or using the Flutter SDK you agree to the Google Terms of Service." - linking to Google's general terms and service policy at policies.google.com/terms

github.com/flutter/flutter/iss…

This is a github issue requesting Flutter to make their #analytics opt-in for complying with EU/ECC laws (#GDPR). That issue was closed in 2021, now three years later and the telemetry is still there enabled by default. And even if you try to opt-out they'll still ping Google's servers to let them know you've opted out, as per their docs.

When Google tried to add telemetry to the Go language last year it made news and there was significant backlash from the community, enough for them to reverse course and make their telemetry opt-in rather than turning data collection on by default - www.theregister.com/2023/05/17…
Unfortunately the same didn't happen with Dart/Flutter so far, which means you're likely to face more data collection there by default.

#Privacy #DataCollection

@0x00string In North Carolina and Florida, you get jailed for 'feeding' the homeless.

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

Link: https://www.techslang.com/definition/what-is-wirths-law/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015323

As someone who spent a large portion of '98 and '99 making sure shit didn't break on Y2K, I'd like to extend a very heartfelt FUCK YOU to HBO for greenlighting a piece of shit documentary that suggests that effort wasn't necessary.

So I just discovered this bot account that posts random insecure servers, this is wild, lol. A lot of the screenshots look like infrastructure or machinery of some kind.

https://botsin.space/@vncresolver

#Security #Cybersecurity

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

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Artists complaining about generative AI be like...

Pillaged from BlueSky:

What is worth measuring?

I'm in this post and I don't like it 😠😭

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