I allow everything from FOSS that I like, you?

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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Manual bug reporting by manual log selection.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And FairEmail doesn't seem to have any bugs. Really. I had issues, but Marcel responded and cleared them within an hour.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yea he's an absolute treasure. I think even if he'd stop updating fairemail, it would take years for anything else to even come close to it.

    The only issue I ever had was not understanding how to activate the pro features on a new device.

    He responded literally within minutes with detailed and easy to understand instructions.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    I generally feel fine if I can preview the payload and it doesn't contain too identifiable stuff. Even better if you can redact fields. NewPipe has a simple implementation of this where it just opens up your email client with a pre-filled body.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm hostile towards telemetry by default because of how much spyware there is in today's technology. I'll only allow it if it's reasonable ( e.g. a GPS getting your location, system diagnostics for software devs ) and it's consentual.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    GPS is "passive". It's basically (i'm oversimplifying) sitting there listening to the satellites each broadcasting info, then triangulates itself based on the passive receipt of that data.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i think they are referencing map apps vs gps as a technology

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hmm... possible... fuck those though. Just buy a Garmin.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Bug reports and error logs. Helps support the development of the software without it feeling like my data is sold for money unnecessarily.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Zero. I don't cotton to my devices phoning home ever.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So, if an application crashes on your device, you're okay with it never getting fixed because the developer has no idea it's a problem?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Nothing automatic, if it's a serious issue I'll replicate on a controlled environment if they need dumps, but usually a bug report with steps to reproduce is sufficient.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    On KDE Plasma I have "User Feedback" set to "Detailed system information and basic usage statistics"

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Almost none. I want all telemetry off by default, and only gets turned on by me when I want it, and with all conditions and content known.

    I like the optional error reports where I can choose just the error report to send.

    Of course all this only for FOSS apps.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    None. If I encounter a bug in something I care about, I'll report it myself.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I let FOSS apps collect crash reports and the like. Proprietary stuff though, no chance.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Nothing. Unless it’s for a product I exceptionally like (count=1) I just allow bug reports.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I'm paranoid as shit so nothing

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  • I'll happily allow telemetry if its an open source piece of software that gives you the option to "preview" what is being sent (and preferably, not automatically, but as a "Here is what we've got, does this look good?" thing). I'll have a look, make sure its nothing confidential, and send it.

    Steam does this with their hardware survey, Fedora does it with its crash reporter system (as did Ubuntu when I used it long ago), and actually macOS was usually pretty good about this too from what I remember (though macOS of course isn't open source).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    None. I prefer reporting an issue manually.

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  • Absolutely none right now, but I'm open to change that policy for select software as I get more used to the FOSS ecosystem.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I always turn on KDE telemetry since it doesnt collect any identifiable info.

    But honestly, privacy is not the same as anonymity. I would also turn on fedoras proposed telemetry if the draft bill gets approved.

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