This is what people usually mean these days when they talk about spyware. Not actually spyware, but counting how many hours you play each game or checking how long you refuse to update windows for.

But if you call it spyware you can write an article or fight on the internet.

Well now you’re definitely saying I’m not bait, so thank you, I agree.

Well if you’re in fact a woman or x, very unexpected. The vast majority of women either have been raped or know someone close to them who has been raped, and would not compare anything Microsoft is doing to raping a person. It boggles the mind.

If you’re in fact an older man, you should grow up and do better, and stop comparing Microsoft sending some innocuous telemetry to sexual assault.

Bait…at what? What exactly do you think I want from the person I’m responding to other than to make fun of their delusions? I suppose you’re saying it’s not good bait, which Id agree with.

Do you know what is in every script you run as root?

Op didn’t say social media companies today are like tobacco companies today. They said social media companies today are like tobacco companies at their worst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Philip_Morris

This was 1999. Just because you’re under 25 doesn’t mean most of the world population is under 25.

Lol you’re arguing like you’re an expert but only providing instructions for… what, fedora and rhel? And saying that running your package manager from the command line is to “feel like a hacker?” What a laugh. Fun fact there’s a range of distros that don’t have proper UIs for their package manager, and the vast majority don’t use dnf.

What exactly do you think is inside of those packages? Who made those scripts? You’re running those scripts as root. Is that safe?

Not as bad as google, but yeah they have a tendency to overstep. The only way to make settings stick is the traditional way, which is the group policy editor. Settings there usually stick for 20-30 years

I hate to alarm you but the entire planet knew climate change was going to happen 50 years ago because that was the 70s when this became well known.

Oil companies were noticing several decades before.

Tell me you’re a young man without telling me you’re a young man.

That’s literally what Linux updates are

Anyway if you read the article it’s opt in and fully removable.

It’s called “history”, not “outdated”. Op is comparing a historical behavior with a current behavior.

LLMs are about to get a whole lot more edgelord.

They’ve been saving your data that whole time to feed into language models.

Yes, the universal unqualified good, nuclear fission. No reason to have any concerns in a highly regulated environment like modern day america or china. All concerns completely unfounded, and are just these damn Greenpeace guys getting in the way of progress.

Not that kind, we know because Elon hasn’t propositioned it

That’s just gonna rust it

You need a wooden fence to totally immobilize a cyber truck

Your comment just makes you sound like an asshole.

I don’t remember the scene but it looks like memory from an Android. Not sparkly enough for star trek, maybe terminator 2?

No that’s too general a claim

Well she’s been working there since 2005. So she doesn’t need the job. Or money. Or anything. She’s just there.

Maybe you’re the one who should keep the cynicism in check if you think people who have everything they could ever have wanted and have benefited on the evil deeds of their employer to the tune of millions and millions of dollars wouldn’t speak out.