So you read a bunch of articles detailing exactly how they plan on using AI and they have specifically said that they’re not using it for vibe coding.

And your conclusion after reading all of this is that they’re going to be using it for vibe coding.

It seems like you’re doing some vibe reading

Rsyslog comes standard on most linux distros, yes. It didn’t get that way because the development team are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing.

So, on one hand we have the developers of a piece of software used by a majority of Linux users saying that, after 2 years of evaluation and testing, that these tools are useful and effective and on the other hand we have random social media people who’s only knowledge on the topic is that they know AI is bad and therefore this cannot be anything but bad.

I’m sure that is great for battery life

Between the update happening and you running the script all of the re-enabled telemetry grabs all of your logs and uploads them.

You wouldn’t even make it through login after the update reboot before this happens.

You cannot remove this telemetry and also receive updates. This is by design.

I’d switch to Windows but I don’t want to use an OS that requires digging through shady online instructions and running random power shell scripts in order to stop it from spying on me until the next update.

I disabled telemetry on Linux(Arch, btw) by not installing enshittified corporate spyware masquerading as an operating system.

Are there any open-source tools that allow me to disable telemetry for Adobe,

Ocular/Scribus

Windows, Microsoft

Linux, Linux Foundation

NVIDIA, AMD

The drivers don’t have telemetry, it’s the software that comes with it.

On Linux you can just install the driver from your package manager without the need for any third party applications.

GitHub Desktop,

https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis?os=linux

Docker Desktop,

docker + https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Docker#Front-ends

VS Code

VS Codium, open source VS Code.

nvim if you want your (programming) life changed

and other applications?

https://aur.archlinux.org/

I, like the other commenters here, am not privy to the 2 years of evaluation and experimentation.

However, I won’t let that stop me from condemning this in no uncertain terms because AI bad and that’s more correct than any amount of “observational data” or “experimental evidence”.

We may not be users of the software, contributors to the project or were even aware of what rsyslog is prior to seeing this announcement but as people who are chronically outraged we have valid concerns about this development which will ruin the software that we only recently discovered existed.

How about a magic trick? I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.

˙suɐʍɐpɐd ǝlʇʇᴉl ʞɔnl pooפ

Grandma?

It’s not the clothes that make you fat, it’s the nutritional choices lack of ozempic fat

Thanks, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

what would be really cool is if it binned the storage keys for one user and not the other, silently. That way you could actually protect your data, without being martyred.

If you leave the primary account ‘blank’ and use a secondary account for your personal use then you can do that.

When you logout of a secondary profile, GrapheneOS zeroes the keys from memory so that even an attacker with full control of the phone could not retrieve the keys unless you entered your password to re-generate them.

I feel like it should also open into a fake account that looks like a real account so they are busy on that while the real account is getting deleted. They should probably start with items listed by the user as important to delete first.

It doesn’t bother with files. The GrapheneOS wipe process deletes (by overwriting with 0s) the encryption headers on the drive and zeros the keys out of memory before shutting down.

You should never, ever allow anyone access to your unlocked phone that you don’t trust. Even an otherwise smartphone could be exploited if it is unlocked because it exposes a much larger attack surface.

Most phones aren’t zeroing out the SSD on factory reset AFAIK, might not even format the partitions.

He was using a Pixel and he fast wiped the phone. That means that he was probably using Graphene OS and entered the duress password when the agents told him to unlock his phone. See: https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

Amcrest cameras have a RTSP stream open by default. If you know the camera’s IP address you can just open the stream in a media player, like VLC, and set it to save the stream to disk.

Also, you could probably save the stream without viewing using ffmpeg.

Or Frigate

Run pw-top while you’re having the issue and post the output.

It’s probably a bad default setting that’s setting the buffer/quantum incorrectly.

Exactly.

This isn’t a decision being made to cut costs, it’s a strategic move because the EU just assessed how badly they’d be screwed if Trump throws a tantrum and forces American tech companies to disrupt services to their governments.

In addition, the EU has strong data privacy laws and US tech companies are resisting compliance (Elon was recently fined 150million, for example).

This has led to several hearings with tech executives who said that they could not guarantee that the data would stay in the EU and they could not guarantee that the data would not be provided to any other country.

Digital privacy laws don’t mean anything if they don’t apply to the major tech companies and they’ve said that they won’t comply.

It’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs.

It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.

The person is using heroin as a metaphor for a destructive product that causes harm to its users in order to setup an article about digital privacy. When people use metaphors, we all understand that they’re a rhetorical technique and not an attempt at describing reality.

If someone says that their grandchildren are perfect little angles, you don’t say “well, actually, angels are divine beings who don’t dwell upon this earth Grandma, so your grandchildren are not angels and also you’re so dumb for literally thinking that.” In this scenario, it isn’t the grandmother that is dumb.

You’re getting caught up in the fact that he said to imagine a scenario. You think that the fake scenario he imagined, where US corporations are selling recreational heroin, is not as bad as the current opioid epidemic. That is a completely irrelevant detail because, once again, the article isn’t about drugs.

It’s like you’re saying “this guy is stupid, you can’t put social media in a spoon and melt it over a candle in order to inject it into your arm!”. Sure, I guess you’d be correct, but it would be completely irrelevant and make it look like you can’t navigate basic conversations without pointless digressions about irrelevant details.