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1. see shy jo (joeyh@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 03:43:42 JST see shy jo

   discovered that the #golang
   telemetry promoters are intentionally wanting to shift the goalposts so compilers are normalized in sending privacy violating telemetry

   This is unacceptable and should kill the language.

   • see shy jo (joeyh@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 03:43:40 JST see shy jo

     in reply to

     How to implement telemetry in a way that actually preserves privacy:

     * off by default
     * common opt-in configuration prompted at OS install time (replacing eg Debian's popcon prompt, which FWIW I helped develp)
     * clear specification about behaviors allowed when opted in. Software that violates that to be considered on the par with an intentional back-door

     This is not a path that Google, or apparently the #golang developers, are constitutionally able to understand or take.

   • see shy jo (joeyh@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 03:43:41 JST see shy jo

     in reply to

     Another one by a Google employee: https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-design

     "Opt-out: The system is enabled by default [...]
     I hope that other open-source projects will be interested to adopt this approach"

     This is an attempt at overton window shifting.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.