Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an...
by MikusR on Sunday March 19, 2017 @11:20AM
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You have audited code for everything you run?
Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an...
by gpm on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:08PM
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You don't need to audit the code to know if something sends telemetry. For many things (such as your kernel) you can rely on reputation/quickly searching through github issues. For others you can rely on packet sniffing.
I'm pretty confident that the only things I use regularly on my computer (not counting my phone here) that send telemetry are
- Firefox (opt out, but prompts you)
- Visual Studio Code (opt out, doesn't prompt you, requires re-opting out on updates)
- rustup (not sure if opt in or out, don't mind if it's recording telemetry)
Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an...
by steveklabnik on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:48PM
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I don't remember if we turned rustup's on, but we must not have, because everyone felt very strongly it should be opt-in.
I'm really quite sure the applications on my machine don't. Then again I only run things I have some way to compile myself.