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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by arp242 on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:18AM (#34773646)
No one claimed it's essential to have telemetry or that a language literally can't do without it. After all, Go is doing fine without telemetry too.

But that doesn't mean it's not useful, for Go but also gcc, or Zig, or D, or any other language.

A long list of use cases is given here: https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-uses

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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by BiteCode_dev on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:09AM (#34774316)
Useful doesn't mean it shoudl be done. There are a ton of useful thing for me I don't do because it's not right to do them.

Apparently as soon as a company becomes big enough, the line between convenience and ethical becomes very blurry.

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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by arp242 on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:39AM (#34775837)
> Useful doesn't mean it should be done.

I never said anything about what should be done. I'm just saying it is useful, as the previous commenter said it's not.

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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by hn92726819 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:27PM (#34794635)
When did I say it isn't useful? I said they didn't need it. They also don't need to install a kernel module that records every keystroke and memory access, but it would certainly be useful data.
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