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Hold on, localhost is my computer. Why are you the authority?

• evbogue 3y ago
  Exactly
• yellowapple 3y ago
  Maybe you're running Ubuntu and he's Mark Shuttleworth: https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182 https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
  • screamingninja 3y ago
    > Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community. And most importantly, you trust us to address it when, being human, we err. What a gem!
    • yellowapple 3y ago
      If I had a nickel for every out-of-touch South African billionaire with an interest in spaceflight, I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
      • midasuni 3y ago
        By using Ubuntu I’m trusting their binaries. By using any distro I’m trusting their binaries, or even if I compile everything from scratch I certainly haven’t read and understood every line of code. He’s not wrong in his statement.
        • yellowapple 3y ago
          He wasn't wrong until he made the statement, at which point I stopped trusting Ubuntu's binaries and sought them from other distros instead :) In any case, there's a vast difference between trusting binaries running on a local machine v. trusting someone to competently (and not maliciously) administer a remote machine. Shuttleworth's statement would've been less unreasonable in the Before Times when cybercriminals breaking into servers and getting their hands on PII to sell on the Dark Web was an occasional and exceptional thing instead of just Tuesday; that time had been long gone even by then (let alone now).
• selcuka 3y ago
  Open the link to see what else I know about you: file:///