because it’s possible to connect to natural persons.
That’s debatable, and is only based on the claim that it’s just a 24bit decoding that can be brute forced. I don’t know for a fact that it’s true that it can be boiled down to 24bit.
I checked my own /etc/machine-id, and the folder doesn’t even exist, so what exactly is supposed to be in it IDK. And yes I use Manjaro.
You could just assign a random number on install or whatever.
Funny, I thought the exact same thing.
this would have is some sort of tracking.
It’s right at the top of the announcement, that it’s mainly for more accurate stats on unique users.
It’s not that I think this is a good idea, because I don’t, but some people are blowing it out of proportions. Especially since this isn’t at all decided. Which I seriously doubt it will.
You can see the code of what is send.
I’m not aware that Google claims they collect data anonymously, on everything where you are logged in.
So that’s a false equivalence.
The MAC address is anonymized with sha256, and IP adresses aren’t stored.
So this seems to me to be perfectly anonymous.
This may be illegal in EU if they don’t use opt in. Even then it may be illegal for under 18 year olds to collect MAC addresses and disk serial numbers, as those can potentially be used for identification.
The data is anonymized, and the IP is NOT stored. So I’m not sure this violates GDPR?
From the code we can see the machine ID is anonymized, sending only a SHA256 checksum.
def get_hashed_device_id():
# Read the machine ID
with open("/etc/machine-id", "r") as f:
machine_id = f.read().strip()
# Hash the machine ID using SHA-256 to anonymize it
hashed_id = hashlib.sha256(machine_id.encode()).digest()
# Convert the first 16 bytes of the hash to a UUID (version 5 UUID format)
return str(uuid.UUID(bytes=hashed_id[:16], version=5))
This makes it somewhat a nothingburger IMO.
Oh I misremembered what bitwarden is.
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That SOC has a MALI GPU, and last I heard MALI drivers are flaky in Linux.
Not having “out of the box”
Where did I say it should absolutely work “out of the box?” Compiling your own drivers can be OK too, but obviously less convenient.
All distros are the same,
No they are definitely not, there are huge differences in availability, quality, configuration and age of packaged software. And finally there are differences in security updates. Also the difference in hardware makes a difference in how well it’s supported with drivers.
A general problem with Arm is that the GPU is poorly supported, and if you want stable drivers, you have tro use an old kernel.
Your response reeks of propaganda.
They’re objectively better
From what I heard, Orange Pi had lots of software problems for instance with drivers, and the quality of distros are not nearly as good as the official for Raspberry Pi.
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What do you mean what does he mean? He says it right there:
during balance or scrub of a btrfs volume?
BTRFS is obviously a filesystem, so it’s equally obviously corruption of the BTRFS filesystem.
Mobian of course she says.
( She uses Debian on the computer )
My wife has one, it’s been a long time since she have talked about it though.
She used to mention when improvements were made.
Edit: Pinephone.
Do you mean misplaced take?
Sorry couldn’t help myself. 😋
I personally would buy anything from them at the moment.
You would?
Well there needs to be a working general boot-loader for one. Then the hardware needs to have drivers that work.
Yes but because I don’t have the folder it reads myself, I can’t see what actually encoded. Are you sure /etc/machine-id is ONLY the MAC address?