Explicit choice: this is probably technically an explicit opt-in, but I think it is a more useful presentation. A feature is clearly presented with two options, enable or disable, and the risks/benefits are clearly laid out as part of the choice. The user must actively make a decision, and neither is considered the “default.” It has risks of choice paralysis (“I don’t know which one to choose! What if I make the wrong decision? Can I change my mind later? Maybe I install Ubuntu instead because it just has telemetry checked by default so I don’t have to think about it.”) If the community does not want an explicit opt out, then I think this is the direction I would pursue—I mention this more below when talking about design).
What do you think about this compromise about the Fedora telemetry proposal?
Best superpower? Each day, you get 500 words. When you have used them up, you cannot talk or write until the next day. Or, you can only talk/write 2 people per day.
Threads gaining 30 million users in 24 hours is a perfect example of the unfair, anticompetitive, monopolistic advantage Meta has by owning the social graph.
We should demand laws that make us the owners of our social graphs and mandate that social media companies enable social graph import and export.
@fraying I think we could be using a lot more Google products daily if they didn't act like their services were made some weekend for fun and were not meant to get popular like the average open source project maintainer
Even if it we accept that this would make Fedora spyware, your toot says Fedora IS spyware which is objectively wrong. It should be at least "#Fedora will be #spyware"
We will need a
metrics collection policy that describes what sort of data may be
collected by Fedora (anonymous, non-invasive), and what sort of data
may not be collected.
What data will be collected is not yet clear. I would label something that collects my personal information like precise location, my files' content, my search history, clipboard etc as spyware and a change on Fedora 40 according to this proposal (which does not even have a clear data collection policy yet) making Fedora 40+ spyware would be at most debatable.
I have read the entire proposal and no, it is pretty clear that it will be on the privacy page of initial setup which already got automatic problem reporting and location services switches on by default. It just takes 2 clicks (which will be 3 clicks if proposal is approved for F40) to disable them.
Best superpower? Oh no! You and your friends are being teleported into another dimension where you'll have to live now. The world is a 1:1 copy of [thing] but with no enemies or traps. Note: the graphics are NOT updated.
@yeti@johnhamelink I am not saying Mastodon shouldn't improve, but I don't think basically saying decentralization sucks (or something. I forgot the lengthy post after people started picking on me and can't reread his arguments because he blocked me after I said I feel like features are okay) and basically discrediting the point of Mastodon and then acting like they are superior for their opinion is not okay
I am not opposing change, I just want to understand why things need change.
You can see this if you just read the thread
I asked about search functionality in the original toot. I didn't understand the problem with it. And I got a shallow answer of "well average Facebook user won't find it useable, and you know that very well"
I said no, I don't know that because I didn't use Facebook or whatever. I find stuff okay
"Well you are the problem then bye" blocked
Then proceed to favourite a toot about smth smth he is on an emacs instance lol of course he is like that
And by the way, many social media platforms did not improve most of their important functionality in the last decade even though some of them suck even as a concept.
Best superpower? You can materialize delicious food in front of you. It's free! Absolutely any variation of your chosen category. Even better, it's somehow super healthy for you no matter what you chose.
The catch is, you can only ever eat this type of food again.
Some people are so weird. Disagree with me? Instead of explaining you why you are wrong I am going to make a petty toot and then block you if you want to discuss it
[Restarting with a completely new thread in case that was hiding these posts from people…]
You ask your secretary for Chameleon and Blade's report. She tells you Yellowblades is on-line and you ask Ameena to put him through on the holovid. Yellowblades' massive form seems to appear before you. There is a fresh scar on his shoulder. Normally Autodoc treatment leaves no scars - it seems Yellowblades prefers to keep his battlescars - presumably a Rigellian form of battle honours. He looks pleased and begins to tell you what has happened. It appears the agents materialised in a large colony ship without hyperdrive that was filled with colonists frozen in deep sleep to be awakened when the ship reached its destination. Its course had been changed. As they headed for the Control Room of the ship, they were attacked by the Thaccoid, but they were able to kill it. 'It was a magnificent battle. Unfortunately Chameleon was hurt early on, but I was able to slay the beast. It was a formidable opponent,'he says, and then continues: 'Yelov was found at the Control Room but the Symbiont appeared in his Time Machine and they escaped. Apparently Yelov had redirected the Colony ship towards the recently discovered hostile alien sector of the Galaxy. The ship would have alerted them of the Federation's presence 200 years ago and the likely outcome would have been a devastating attack whilst the Federation was still weak. Chameleon and I put the ship back on course.'
'How is Chameleon?' you ask.
'He is recuperating in hospital - only an overnight stay. He is a brave warrior and I was honoured to fight with him.' You commend Blade on his prowess and, visibly, he swells with pride. At least his morale is riding high, you think to yourself as you break holo contact. Yelov has been thwarted, anyway, although you failed to prevent the polybdenum raid.