So the stuff available on ubuntu/arch don't have spyware? I never heard about these changes, I did know some company bought it but didn't think much about it at the time as I don't use it a lot, but when I need it, it's quite handy
I was hopeful the first couple of days when it hit twitter but it became pretty obvious after that it just hopium and decided to wait for the paper. I wonder if they'll even bother to try and publish now...
That's because he took virtually all of his ideas from other people who said it better, and thus I'm not sure why one wouldn't quote those sources rather than a known terrorist and murderer? Young minds are often easily influenced and bad at separating the person and the message of the writing. It's kind of like inverse MAGA, where the cult of personality is the important thing and the content doesn't really matter, only its source.
Yes, I much prefer local and do my own backups (rclone to backblaze) on just about everything. I only drop stuff on iCloud when I need to share it and a couple of ongoing spreadsheets I use to track stuff.