https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/straw-poll-on-your-preferences-about-opt-in-opt-out-for-possible-data-collection/85675/2

This poll is a bit hard to understand but essentially you could vote for multiple options, the highest opt-out option is at 26%, meaning 74% of people oppose this idea.

The original proposal is at 16%, for a jarring 84% disapproval rate.

Despite overwhelming negative feedback, Red Hat is currently drafting a revised proposal.

But what about Red Hat?

This is the link to the proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry#Privacy-preserving_Telemetry_for_Fedora_Workstation

These parts are all interesting and contradict some people who argue Red Hat has no hand in this issue:

Name: Michael Catanzaro Email: <mcatanzaro@redhat.com>

and

The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics.

and

It is Fedora Legal's obligation to ensure our data collection complies with legal requirements in the jurisdictions in which Red Hat operates

and

Occasionally, Red Hat might need to collect specific metrics to justify additional time spent on contributing to Fedora or additional investment in Fedora.

The quotes above were handpicked. There are 7 matches for "Red Hat" in the link above, not counting the email address.

(RTTNews) - South Africa's consumer price inflation slowed for an eighth month in a row in June to its lowest level in nearly two years, preliminary data from Statistics South Africa showed Wednesday.

Separate data from the statistical office showed that retail sales continued to decline in May.

The consumer price index rose 5.4 percent year-on-year following a 6.3 percent increase in May. Economists had forecast 5.6 percent inflation.

The latest inflation rate was the weakest since October 2021, when it was 5.0 percent.

Headline inflation sank below the upper limit of the South African Reserve Bank's monetary policy target range, the statistical office said.

Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has ruled out signing a trade deal with the EU unless Brussels eases requirements for Brasília to open up its manufacturing industry to foreign competition.

Lula, who is in Brussels to try to speed up progress on a trade deal between Brussels and the Mercosur bloc of four South American countries, said he wanted to change rules that would prevent signatories handing government contracts to domestic companies without a competitive process that would be open to foreign firms.

A proposal circulated between the Brazilian, Argentine, Uruguayan and Paraguayan officials that are working on the deal would, Lula said, allow governments to continue to award contracts to smaller domestic firms, as “every country in the world” does, and support a “sovereign industrial policy”.

It would be presented in Brussels “within two to three weeks”, Lula said at a press conference, saying he believed the EU officials would bend to the Latin American countries’ demands.

HANOI, July 19 (Reuters) - Vietnam has approved a plan to expand its national fuel storage capacity by 2030, with investment of up to 270 trillion dong ($11.4 billion).

< The investment would raise the country's crude oil and refined fuel storage capacity to 75 to 80 days of net imports, according to the plan signed by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on Tuesday and reviewed by Reuters.

Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by Martin Petty, Kanupriya Kapoor

I'm currently unable to install Debian using the latest netinst from https://www.debian.org/distrib/, when selecting any "Install" option, the screen glitches.

Looking up the issue in the internet, it seems Debian is trying to launch the wrong resolution, some users suggest using the "Help" option in the menu to do something related to VGA but there is no such option on my screen.

Another user successfully Debian by actually editing their ISO to include the correct resolution... sorry if that's what it takes to install Debian, then I won't.

I'm not interested in the liveusb version as it is heavily bloated, if anyone knows of a command to trim down the live version to be the same as the netinst, I may try the Live CD.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) ripped the Department of Defense's finances for failing its fifth consecutive audit and inability to account for 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets.

"The most ravenous Leviathan of our government that devours the people's wealth is the Department of Defense," Higgins said in an impassioned speech during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the DOD's failed audit, financial management practices.

Saadieh tells Al Jazeera what she loves about refereeing, the challenges she’s overcome, and what it means to officiate in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. action during the 2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament soccer match between Myanmar and Bangladesh

The 34-year-old of Palestinian heritage grew up in Syria. In 2010, while studying sports education at university, she saw that no women were taking part in refereeing training, so she decided to give it a go.

She moved to Malaysia in 2012 after the Syrian war broke out and began refereeing there. She moved with her family to Sweden in late 2016 as part of a United Nations resettlement programme and now referees in the top flight of Sweden’s women’s league and in the second tier of the men’s league.

She has officiated in Women’s AFC Cup and Asian Cup matches, World Cup qualifiers, and games at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Saadieh has also worked with the Palestinian Football Association.

A confiança dos brasileiros no presidente da República subiu ao maior nível desde 2012, segundo mostra o Índice de Confiança Social (ICS), série anual de pesquisas presenciais feitas desde 2009 pelo Ibope e mantida com a mesma metodologia pelo Ipec. Segundo o levantamento, o chefe do Executivo federal marca hoje 50 pontos em uma escala de zero (nenhuma confiança) a cem (muita confiança). O número de agora é nove pontos superior ao que foi registrado em 2022, último ano da gestão Bolsonaro.

O índice do Ipec atribui notas de zero a cem para 20 instituições. O presidente da República ainda aparece na parte de baixo do ranking, na 16ª posição, apesar da melhora registrada em 2023.

Os eleitores do Nordeste são os que declaram maior confiança em Lula (na região, o presidente da República marca 66 pontos). Essa foi a única região onde o petista superou o número de votos de Bolsonaro no segundo turno das eleições de outubro. Por outro lado, os níveis mais baixos de confiança no petista são observados entre eleitores das classes A e B (39 pontos) e entre os evangélicos (43), grupos que majoritariamente apoiaram Bolsonaro em 2022.

Final opinion polls project that the right-wing PP party will win a majority in a coalition with the far-right Vox.

Madrid, Spain – Should polls prove correct and far-right Vox party form part of a future Spanish government after next Sunday’s snap general elections, it is not just pro-independence political parties that risk being banned: even Catalan language magazines in public libraries are in danger of disappearing.

“Mission accomplished,” Jesus Albiol, the newly-appointed councillor for culture for Vox in the town of Burriana, proudly announced on Twitter last week after cancelling the subscriptions for the magazines, two of them children’s comics, for the local library.

Speaking to Christian Zionist group, Florida governor and Republican US presidential candidate pledges support for Israel.

Washington, DC – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has reiterated claims that the West Bank is not occupied, suggesting that Israel should be able to continue to build settlements on the Palestinian territory without interference from the United States.

Speaking to Christians United for Israel (CUFI) on Monday, DeSantis underscored his pro-Israel bona fides, including his efforts to crack down on companies that boycott the US ally.