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>In order to have a civil discussion about issues which can be emotive, one has to keep their feelings "in check" and put themselves in the other side's shoes
by antisol 5y ago
>In order to have a civil discussion about issues which can be emotive, one has to keep their feelings "in check" and put themselves in the other side's shoes
That's an excellent point.
So, for example, in this vein, as a maintainer of a large FOSS project, it would seem to be prudent to not assume bad faith and block people without any comment when they ask a legitimate question.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoIn the same vein, it would be prudent not to assume bad faith on Audacity's part too. They've stated the telemetry is just so they can see how many users are using feature x, is feature y discoverable. I don't really understand the "Chinese government spyware" angle. Why would the Chinese government be interested in comparing what % of Linux users use the "reverb" function vs. Windows users?
- antisol 5y ago> it would be prudent not to assume bad faith on Audacity's part too Indeed. But that becomes difficult for me when I ask a legit question and am blocked for it. And then it gets much more difficult when I see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905704 > Why would the Chinese government be interested in comparing what % of Linux users use the "reverb" function vs. Windows users? Who knows? Personally I don't even really think it's about analysing the data, it's really just about having the data. Because "big data". But from my perspective the philosophy isn't really about understanding why the data harvesters do what they do so much as protecting ourselves from the ridiculous number of possible misuses the data could have. It's the same principle that causes me to default to wearing a condom.