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Does Eternal Terminal have any telemetry? I guess what I'm asking is, does ET phone home?

harumph 7y ago
slow clap
skyyler 7y ago
It doesn't appear so. Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.
- dunkelheit 7y ago
  I guess it is the reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial Although in our times it won't even be that surprising if remote shells started phoning home...
  - skyyler 7y ago
    This website is for high quality discussion, not low effort pop culture references.
    - kstrauser 7y ago
      I personally found that to be a high quality joke. I mean, this isn't Reddit, but I wouldn't stick around a website too long if it were genuinely all business, zero fun.
    - evanriley 7y ago
      And yet, I'm not sure I would call the majority of discussion on this website "high quality".
    - hundchenkatze 7y ago
      Wow, climb on down buddy. E.T. the movie is even referenced on Eternal Terminal's site. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/#the-eternal-terminal-et https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/#the-eternal-terminal... You remind me of the main character's wife from Breaking Bad, what's her name, oh yeah Skyler.
      - skyyler 7y ago
        Sick pop culture reference!~
- Nextgrid 7y ago
  > Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? Well, tools that you wouldn't expect to phone home like text editors and compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0]. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148 https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    Yes, on the front page of HN right now is a post about Atom phoning home. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642391
  - satanspastaroll 7y ago
    Does Microsoft collect the calculations themselves, or metadata related to it's use?
- tekknolagi 7y ago
  While this was a joke, I am concerned about terminal utils having (opt-out) telemetry. It seems to have spread recently. For example, Homebrew, .NET core, ...
- staticvoidmaine 7y ago
  Maybe he’s not that smart. Maybe he’s like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something
efdee 7y ago
Have my vote and never show your face around here again.
jolmg 7y ago
The source is here: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal
narag 7y ago
Apart from the reference, they seem to like humour, or at least saying it's "for the busy and impacient" while the name actually means "lasts forever" is funny.

slow clap

It doesn't appear so. Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.

dunkelheit 7y ago
I guess it is the reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial Although in our times it won't even be that surprising if remote shells started phoning home...
- skyyler 7y ago
  This website is for high quality discussion, not low effort pop culture references.
  - kstrauser 7y ago
    I personally found that to be a high quality joke. I mean, this isn't Reddit, but I wouldn't stick around a website too long if it were genuinely all business, zero fun.
  - evanriley 7y ago
    And yet, I'm not sure I would call the majority of discussion on this website "high quality".
  - hundchenkatze 7y ago
    Wow, climb on down buddy. E.T. the movie is even referenced on Eternal Terminal's site. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/#the-eternal-terminal-et https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/#the-eternal-terminal... You remind me of the main character's wife from Breaking Bad, what's her name, oh yeah Skyler.
    - skyyler 7y ago
      Sick pop culture reference!~
Nextgrid 7y ago
> Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? Well, tools that you wouldn't expect to phone home like text editors and compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0]. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148 https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148
- Thorrez 7y ago
  Yes, on the front page of HN right now is a post about Atom phoning home. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642391
- satanspastaroll 7y ago
  Does Microsoft collect the calculations themselves, or metadata related to it's use?
tekknolagi 7y ago
While this was a joke, I am concerned about terminal utils having (opt-out) telemetry. It seems to have spread recently. For example, Homebrew, .NET core, ...
staticvoidmaine 7y ago
Maybe he’s not that smart. Maybe he’s like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something

efdee 7y ago

Have my vote and never show your face around here again.

jolmg 7y ago

The source is here: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal

narag 7y ago

Apart from the reference, they seem to like humour, or at least saying it's "for the busy and impacient" while the name actually means "lasts forever" is funny.