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Exactly. 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 b
by skykooler 6y ago
Exactly. 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.