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Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems]

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems]
Date 2021-03-04 23:40 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:18:38PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The part that I find more interesting is the "emergent evil" thing.
> > Somehow the techies found that it is OK to do that and they did,
> > in the best of their intentions.
> 
> I'm not surprised: it's quite common to want to get some kind of
> information about how your program performs (i.e. things like profiling
> your code), and it's often hard to get a good view of that with
> artificial local tests, so there's a strong motivation to try and do
> that profiling on "in real life".

Yes, but... letting your compiler plant bugs into someone else's
software to phone back to *you*... chutzpah. Had to be Microsoft.

> Emacs's tradition is to be quite conservative when it comes to
> initiating network connections, but nowadays many if not most
> applications have some kind of "call home" functionality (e.g. to check
> if there's a more recent release).  It's absurdly considered normal.

Emacs hasn't the kind of culture which would approve of something
like that willy-nilly. That's what I appreciate about it.

Cheers
 - t

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  Re: Installation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-02 21:40 +0100
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      Re: Installation problems <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-02 22:30 +0100
        Re: Installation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-03 00:10 +0100
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        Re: Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-03 02:40 +0100
          Re: Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-03 02:50 +0100
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            Re: Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-03 16:40 +0100
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                Re: Installation problems Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-03-04 13:30 +0100
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        Re: Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-03 10:50 +0100
          Re: Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-03 11:20 +0100
    Re: Installation problems Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-03-03 00:00 +0100
  PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-03 16:30 +0100
    Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-03 22:30 +0100
      Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-03 23:00 +0100
        Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-04 02:50 +0100
          Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-04 03:50 +0100
            Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-04 04:20 +0100
              Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-04 05:10 +0100
                Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-04 10:00 +0100
          Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-04 09:50 +0100
            Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-03-04 10:50 +0100
              Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-04 14:20 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-04 15:30 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-03-04 16:20 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-04 17:20 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-03-04 19:10 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-04 19:30 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-04 23:20 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-03-04 23:50 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-04 15:30 +0100
              Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-04 14:20 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-03-04 16:10 +0100
                Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation  problems] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-04 17:20 +0100
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            Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-04 23:30 +0100
              [OFFTOPIC] Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-05 04:00 +0100
                Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of  Installation problems] David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-05 06:30 +0100
                Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of  Installation problems] David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-05 06:40 +0100
                Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-05 07:40 +0100
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      Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-03-04 18:50 +0100
      Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-03-04 23:50 +0100
        Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-05 13:20 +0100
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