I'm so fucking tired of these asswipes from companies are a thousand times worse pretending they are better. They literally sell all your data to anyone who wants is, but noooo, apple bad! I'm not saying apple is some kind of bastion of privacy or whatever, but at least they are not selling my data to pay for their spyware vessels.
To those 'experts': Get off you high horse and do better. Prove me wrong, go build a working open-source phone, go provide a image hosting service that does not analyze every single photo you upload. Go build a fucking app with out trying to steal my contact book. Fuck you
Lets hope so... I expect that these were accidentally committed to a public repo
However, while the keys are then already leaked, you'd have to go search for them. Copilot suggests you use them in you editor. That is not quite the same imo.
It goes from deliberately searching and using leaked keys to having them handed to you without context. I feel it is a bit like finding an unlocked bike, if you take it, it is still stealing. But here there is a guy at the bike parking lets say that is handing out bikes to anyone passing by. Not the best analogy, but i think it covers my point ;)
As someone who has to deal with a lot of bots, bot networks and other weird scraper apps people use: The biggest issue is that most of these tools are not behaved very well. This tool is clearly designed to circumvent protections, rate limits mostly, against scraping that might be essential to keep things running.
They follow links that are explicitly marked as do not follow, they do not even try to limit their rate, they spoof their user agent strings etc etc. These bots cause real problems and cost real money. I do not think that kind of misuse is ethical. In fact, using this tool to circumvent protections can turn your scraping into a DDOS attack, which I do not feel are ethical.
If your bot behaves itself though, public information is public imo. Just don't take down websites, respect rate limits and do not follow 'no-follow' links.
To give an idea of the size of the issue, we have websites for customers that have maybe 5 hits per minute from actual users. Then _suddenly_ you go to 500 hits/minute for a couple of hours, because some bot is trying to scrape a calendar and is now looking for events in 1850 or whatever. (Not the greatest software that these links are still there tbh, but that is out of my control.)
Or another situation, not entirely related, but interesting i think:
A few years back for days on end 80% of our total traffic came from random IPs across china & request could be traced through HTTP referrers where the 'user' had apparently opened a page in one province, then traveled to the other side of China and clicked a link 2 hours later.
All these things are relatively easy to mitigate, but that doesn't make it ethical.
I have the same experience. I bought a System76 darter pro, it comes with a linux pre-installed. I've been using it on and of for a year now but cannot 'give up' my mac:
- It is not stable at all; weekly complete freezes
- The key-bindings are a joke. Even after remapping and hacking stuff
- bluetooth support sucks, sometimes it works for days, then it will not reconnect and keep spewing errors.
- Sound drivers seems buggy, it takes 20-30s to 'switch' to a BT speaker.
- I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Ruby 'correctly' via apt.
Like 90% of content is written by marketeers for bots. SEO they call it.
Now we can take out the middle man. Bots writing crap for other bots. And then we use that content to train more bots to write even crappier blog spam. And finally the bots decide the actual recipe is no longer needed on the recipe blogs and they kick us of the internet.
While there are some nice open solutions out there, pine64 etc, one thing I'd like to see in more open projects is high quality.
I have a Pinebook Pro & an System76 Darter laptop. I use neither because the build quality is weak. Things like a proper trackpad, decent resolutions etc. Basically, I want a Macbook Air, but open-ish. And I'd gladly pay the 'premium' for it. Hell, that Darter was more expensive than a pretty decked out MBA & it is a heap of cheap plastics.
If the hardware was there, I wouldn't mind having to out some more effort in to getting a proper Linux distro running properly/
neat! I tried a nice android phone last year and it was such a shit experience that I returned it within 24h. This was 100% because google.
Also, this can go suck it with his ' a phone that caters to those concerned about their privacy makes very little sense.' bs. That is exactly the shit attitude take lets these cunts win.
Epic needs to sit this one out honestly. They are only doing this because "we didn't get a special deeeeeaaalll :'("
Apple needs to get their head out of their asses and fix this before governments do. I will probably own apple devices for the rest of my life, but this kind of behaviour is damaging in the long run. Look at MSFT.
At least iPhones dont come with a non-removable fortnite installer on the homescreen and 5k google spyware apps..
For anyone using pixels: Under the GPDR tracking pixels require explicit consent as they monitor user behaviour. This _cannot_ be covered with any implicit forms of consent like 'you subscribed to the newsletter'.