Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry

Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by jeffbee on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:20AM (#36633066)

The is HN so you are allowed to hold forth out of pure ignorance, if you want to. Android-wide and ChromeOS-wide profiling produce binaries including the Linux kernel that are peak-optimized for actual conditions in the field and real use cases. They ship the only profile-optimized Linux kernels you can get from any distribution. It is a demonstrably better product through telemetry.

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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by rcxdude on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:58AM (#36633675)

Got a link to any information on this, especially the collection of the profile information from user's devices? The only reference I can see to PGO on android is the support they have for a more traditional flow (create special instrumented binary, run a 'representative' workload or two, get profile data for PGO). It would be especially interesting if there's any info on how much of a performance improvement this yielded.

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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by denton-scratch on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:02PM (#36633729)

> It is a demonstrably better product through telemetry.

Demonstrable, perhaps; but to actually demonstrate it, they'd have to share their telemetry results.

Also, demonstrably better than what? Demonstrably better than a Google-free kernel with no telemetry? How can you demonstrate that?

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