Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog

Re:Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog by lukasb on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:08PM (#21644054)

The "never phone home" UI should make it clear that it will still phone home to check for updates.

But I'm sympathetic to Github here. Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft.

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Re:Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog by vunie on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:21PM (#21644145)

>Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft.

That's not a decision for Github to make. Let the user decide. Perhaps by even presenting them with a dialog on first run that informs them then asks them ti decide.

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Re:Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog by Multicomp on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:18PM (#21644452)

I agree wholeheartedly.

Somewhere out there (prog21 ?) is an article stating that the one in desperate need of electricity (the computing device) is subject to the one in a position to provide it (the user), and I agree with that sentiment.

I'd even like an IETF-standard-like T-shirt that says 'The user's will MUST be obeyed as faithfully as possible unless prevented by unrecoverable circumstances' or something like that.

Click-through EULAs and dialog boxes are another symptom of the 'elite-developer-itis' our industry can sometimes exude.

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Re:Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog by sneak on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:23AM (#21645475)

Users having unpatched software is no risk to GitHub. It's risk to those users.

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