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Mandatory "do some research before jumping to freaking out at GitHub for 'spyware.'" Yes technically you could use OT to exfiltrate data; guess what, you can d
by kortex 5y ago
Mandatory "do some research before jumping to freaking out at GitHub for 'spyware.'"
Yes technically you could use OT to exfiltrate data; guess what, you can do it with http headers, too.
Been using OpenTelemetry for python and golang. It's great. I really like using Jaeger for tracing across small ML webapps. We have users on the scale of dozens so I just trace everything without sampling. Way, way easier than going through logs.
Also used python + jaeger to narrow down some wifi issues on my home network. Basically run a server on each device and round-robin a request through each and look at the flame graph. Turns out, some Macs' location preferences can cause 500-800ms outage multiple times an hour, as it tries to scan know AP ssids or something. Yeah, dumb.
- weberer 5y agoThey problem is that Microsoft continuously used the term "telemetry" as a euphemism for the dystopian corporate spyware they shipped with Windows 10. So now to the average end user, the two concepts are the same. This is compounded by the fact that Github is now a Microsoft company and Microsoft has been caught in the past hiding "telemetry" in programs compiled with Visual Studio. https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_adding_telemetry_function_calls_to/ https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...
- kortex 5y agoI get what you are getting at, but It's not really a euphemism. Telemetry means literally "distant measurement." You can use telemetry to track sensors in a rocket, a request across a service mesh, a traceback from a crash in a user program, fine-grained details about everything a user does in Windows, or a straight-up keylogger. All are forms of telemetry. The VS telemetry injection is scary as hell though. Telemetry is like a knife. Context and location matters. Great in the kitchen, bad when lodged in your back. Sharing this from myself downthread: Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring. The word is derived from the Greek roots tele, "remote", and metron, "measure". All spyware is, by definition, telemetry. Heck, the whole field of spycraft ( espionage ) is telemetry of sorts. Not all telemetry is spyware.