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iTerm has had a font fetcher, a crash reporter, and an automatic updater that all hit the internet for a while. Did anyone care? Is there anybody who turned off
by benced 2y ago
iTerm has had a font fetcher, a crash reporter, and an automatic updater that all hit the internet for a while. Did anyone care? Is there anybody who turned off the crash reporter but started a fairly mean-spirited thread that the crash reporter was still in the binary? Is there anybody who didn't bother reading the code for what the crash reporter did and expressed that they're not "comfortable with a labeled 'off switch'"?
Seems like this preference only comes up when the endpoint is an LLM. It's an isolated demand for rigor rooted in the visceral emotions LLMs seem to inspire.
- bingo-bongo 2y agoiTerm did have at least one rather serious data leaking bug in the past. It was introduced in a new feature and enabled by default. People (or power users at least) tend to remember incidents like that. I don’t think it’s entirely “just because LLM’s”.
- benced 2y agoI would find this persuasive if I could find a single mention of this bug in either of the GitLab threads or the original blog post. Also, what was the bug?