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1. Christian Pietsch (chpietsch@fedifreu.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:35:26 JST Christian Pietsch

   All you #Mastodon sysadmins who upgraded to Mastodon 4.3.0: Have you noticed that after you dutifully upgraded the #Yarn dependency to version 4, a message like this scrolled by:

   $ yarn install --immutable
   ➤ YN0065: Yarn will periodically gather anonymous telemetry: https://yarnpkg.com/advanced/telemetry
   ➤ YN0065: Run yarn config set --home enableTelemetry 0 to disable
   

   I for one almost missed this. You may want to do what I did (as user mastodon in /home/mastodon/live):

   yarn config set --home enableTelemetry 0
   

   I'm sure the Yarn people think their telemetry is perfectly harmless, but I hope we all agree that telemetry should not be used in the fediverse.

   #MastoAdmin #telemetry

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:35:25 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @chpietsch Don’t worry, Yarn is by Facebook. And Facebook is part of the Social Web Foundation with Mastodon. So how bad can they be?

   • Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 06:01:50 JST Jan

     in reply to

     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @chpietsch Thanks Christian, we deactivated yarn telemetry for all toot.io customer instances.

     ➤ YN0000: Successfully set enableTelemetry to false

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 06:02:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jan

     @jan @chpietsch Thanks, Jan, appreciate it :)