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  • Each popularity-contest host is identified by a random 128bit uuid (MY_HOSTID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf). This uuid is used to track submissions issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.

    Oh, and by default, IP, unless usetor is enabled

    A machine I’d is just a hash too

    Can you explain to me how you track Mac address, serial numbers over the internet.

    Just fyi, the backend project I made 20 years ago was hardware related. There’s potential reasons to grab this info…

    But, if it is a concern, I’m sure they’d welcome submissions to improve the parsing and allow things to be filtered.

    In fact, popcon could be used for digital fingerprinting technically

    In all likelihood, op never spoke to the manjaro developers either






  • Yeah… I used to sell Apple gear.

    When Apple announced the Mighty mouse 20 years ago, everyone was super excited. There wasn’t much info, and we were almost wondering if it was a touch sensitive button on it.

    What we got though was a mouse which gave you RSI any time you clicked the right button.

    Now, I have a Mac Studio. Every PC has the power button on the top or front. This guy? Nah, lets put it on the back! And the M2 is a professional machine, so lets ship with 8GB ram only… And MAKE IT SHARED VIDEO MEMORY!

    And lets stick an ARM chip with no raytracing on it, because thats what people crave






  • I used to think it was better than reddit, but I hate to say it, I’ve started to notice facebook meme communities jump onboard. Science memes is amazing and isn’t affected (it seems to be all unique posts I’d never seen), but once those facebook repost meme communities jump onboard, you’re going to end up with all the people that makes facebook rubbish too unfortunately.

    I’ve already seen an increase in dumb car meme posts which get reposted 3000x on Facebook (which brings along the same toxic anti-science people). We’re already seeing an increase in people who don’t seem to have much common sense

    I want a community which is science and fact oriented, and I’m growing increasingly concerned that as we grow, we’re moving away from that.

    But for now, its still awesome in comparison imho (last I looked, many reddit communities were overrun by nutjobs after the mods all left)