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You're kidding right? You look at every commit of every open source app you use, or that a closed source app is built atop? For me, off the top of my head, that
by lostcolony 6y ago
You're kidding right? You look at every commit of every open source app you use, or that a closed source app is built atop? For me, off the top of my head, that would mean, yes, Chrome, Firefox, the Linux Kernel, Libre Office, Android, VLC...probably plenty more that I am unaware are open source, and that's not even considering the dev tools to do my job. When would I actually have time to have a life?
- skykooler 6y agoExactly. Reading the source of every program you used was certainly possible back in the 80's when the FOSS movement started; but nowadays, with every program being millions of lines of code, it's implausible to get through all that and still have time to actually use the software.
- lostcolony 6y agoNot to mention background updating. I don't even know when Chrome has updated half the time, unless something stops working.
- brigandish 6y agoIf you're on OSX/macOS (what a silly rebrand) then if you look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (and possibly /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons) for any .plist from Google (or Keystone) in there and add <key>Disabled</key><true/> under the first <dict> and then unload each file, e.g. launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.* The auto-updating stops and stop them reloading after a reboot/logon.