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Thanks!! Yes, I do think that consent is at the core of it for me as well. I wasn't nearly as articulate and self-deprecating as you were :-) It seems to me t

Thanks!! Yes, I do think that consent is at the core of it for me as well. I wasn't nearly as articulate and self-deprecating as you were :-) It seems to me that the counts for Julia and for packages can be gamed by doing Sybil attacks, so to me it both feels morally wrong, and that it won't work well. thanks again

ninjin 6y ago
You are welcome and thank you for raising this to my attention as I sadly do not have the time to be as involved as I once was. Since we are currently Julians is a wider forum I would also like to advise non-Julians and Julians alike against kneejerking along the lines of: “They are coming to take our freedom!”. As opposed as I am to this specific feature, one would do well to read the technical background [1,2] as there are plenty of points in there that I gladly support as moves towards a world with more privacy and platform diversity than the current one – it also makes for interesting technical reading at that. Those behind this are not horned demons and do have the community in mind even if we seemingly disagree on the matter of consent. [1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1377 https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1377 [2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1544 https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1544