4 ms·

They'd fuck it up if it existed. They shipped Debian packages that the environment variable didn't work on. Opt out telemetry is NOT an option. Opt in is. I've

• kgwxd 8y ago
  It's already fucked. This could be checked much easier than looking for new flags every release and figuring out those do what they should. If they fuck it up too much, we'll know they're either malicious or incompetent, both are very good reasons to stop using their code.
  • setquk 8y ago
    They are both malicious and incompetent for sure. Firstly because collecting data is more important than customer preference and secondly because when the customer did make a preference or state a preference they screwed up and told the customer to fuck off respectively. Now after 16 years of using .Net and building a lot of massive products this is the status quo of how I have been treated all along and it hasn’t changed one little bit other than the marketing so it’s time to get off the ride. At this point I firmly believe that the “open source” drive here is part of a new market domination strategy rather than something for altruistic good. Fair enough but I don’t have any love left to give now. If you ship some stuff on every platform it looks like you are an attractive option and once you’ve bought in you can’t get off the crack smoking schizophrenic rollercoaster. I want off.