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Is there any technical reason why telemetry would be required to make updates work?
by ghostpepper 6y ago
Is there any technical reason why telemetry would be required to make updates work?
- nailer 6y agoHow do you have a machine download updates and install them without tracking that it is downloading updates and installing them successfully?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoEvery Linux distro manages this. You have the client machine determine which updates it needs, as it has access both to its own state, and to the package repository's manifest.
- nailer 6y ago0 Linux distros manage this. Have you ever ran an apt or yum repo?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoIf you have something substantive to say, then say it. In what way does apt, say, not behave as I have described?
- nailer 6y agoI mentioned your repo knows everything you have installed. How is that not substantive? There's not some kind of zero-knowledge k-anonymity (https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...) type feature. It simply doesn't exist. Apt doesn't use it, yum doesn't use it, pacman doesn't use it. They all know everything. If you wanted more detail, you could have asked. Instead you said my comment had no substance. Please read this very carefully: GFY.
- dang 6y agoThis sort of thing will get you banned here. Surely you know that by now. Please don't do it again, regardless of how provoked you feel. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 6y agoPlease don't be a jerk in HN comments. It's against the rules and evokes worse from others. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html