1y ago

What is spying?

Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

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Imagine thinking OSS doesn't spy on you 🤣
- reads source code
  Oh look I know exactly what it does and what libraries it uses, I don't have to hope and pray like a closed source cuck.
  Thanks for showing everyone how amazingly stupid you are.
  
  Implying that all Linux users have read the source code of the distro they're running (assuming the majority is able to).
  
  It's called a community for a reason.
  
  So in the end you're just trusting other people to check it for you...
  
  You said if they aren't able.
  
  In the end, for the vast majority of users, the result is the same as people using closed source software, they're trusting other people to be acting in good faith.
  
  Maybe, but with open source they have a choice because they can learn and gain more freedom, closed source simply demands obedience and promotes ignorance.
  
  Yeah, at some point you have to accept that not everyone wants to learn programming and it doesn't make them cucks just because they don't share your interests.
  I'm sure you wouldn't be happy if someone called you a cuck because they know how to build a house up to code from scratch and you don't.
  It's also very funny to check your history and seeing you complain about gatekeeping when you're insulting people who run closed source software because you disagree with their choice...
  
  Took the cuck comment hard huh? Just say so, no need to have a whole argument about it.
  I was wondering how long it would take for the cringelord redditors that would check post history to arrive, good to see you bringing your bad habits with you to shit up this platform too.
  
  Cringelord Redditor like that one who signed up two months ago under the name kevinBLT? 🤔
  Sorry for pointing out your arguments are bad, promise I won't do it again.
  
  Yeah... Except if the compiler is backdoored. Ken Thompson explained this back in the day. If the compiler is compromised, there ultimately isn't a way to see if there's something malicious going on. Brodie Robertson does a good job explaining this.
  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sOeuYuvOcl0
  
  This is wading into paranoid schizo territory and I wish you the best of luck going down that path because there is no upper limit to distrust.
  
  Oh I totally agree. I find these sort of arguments around privacy and security more interesting than they are concerning, cuz yeah, ultimately if someone wants the data badly enough, they'll get it.
  In my personal life, I like to explore all the privacy related gadgets/software I can for two reasons. One is that its just kind of fun. And the other is because ultimately I don't want to make it all that easy for every bit of my personal life to be laid bare on the internet.
  Like I said, if somebody wants my data bad enough, they'll get it. But I suppose that puts the onus on me (and the developers of the software I trust), to make the data NOT all that easy to get.
  
  When was the last time you read any source code for any software you use on a daily basis?
  Do you read and understand the source code for every piece of software you use?
  No?
  Then STFU.
  
  You had a whole ass argument with yourself huh? Impressive.
  
  I see no response. I assume I am correct. Feel free to stop talking.
  
  Wrong on all accounts, and you didn't seem to want a response but go off I guess.
  
  Lolololol 👌
  Software getting pegged with cves left and right because of hundreds of source libraries is definitely not a thing.
  Unless you are one of the few people writing go routines for massive companies, or working on hardware and low level hardware where you have low resources where scaling can mean millions you are writing code using hundreds of dependencies and libraries.
  Very very few people need to code like that.
- User name checks out.
  
  I'm sure I had no idea when I picked it out. None.
  
  All is fine. I just liked it

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