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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] zeitgeist and Devuan Linux
For the record, this ware is not mine. It has been strange to see part of my screen name in the subject title.

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On Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 9:43 AM, Kenn Thyrsted <devuan@???> wrote:


> Absolutely agree with the idea, that this type of surveillance has no
> place in any user-respecting distro.
> However..Freedom to choose should - ideally - be an absolute.
>
> Sadly this was almost not the case regarding systemd.
> Had it not been for some diehards, devuan probably wouldn't exist.
>
> I'm thankful that it does !
>
> Regarding privacy-invasive, potential password-snooping, data-collecting
> software as zeitgeist or Gnome Tracker being a hard dependency of GTK4 i
> dislike the idea that it's flying under the radar.
>
> What can be done - i don't know, but an installation warning that
> "$package" is openly collecting your data and metadata i think should be
> minimum.
>
> Wether it is possible to categorise and placing it as "Non-Privacy"
> with an explicit choice - just as enabling "Non-Free-Repository" i don't
> know..
>
> Kenn
>
> On 2023-01-05 22:39, altoid via Dng wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > Before the Xmas holidays I came upon a post by a new member at the
> > Dev1 Galaxy forum:
> >
> > https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5406
> >
> > I had not ever come across this zeigeist package so had no idea of
> > what it was about or what it did and was quite surprised at what I
> > read.
> >
> > I would appreciate some input from members here at DNG on this
> > package, specifically with respect to the possibility of it being/not
> > being a problem for the Linux environment.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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