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SpyingOS (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Google has no room to talk here with Android.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

or chromeos

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ironically a Linux-derived OS.

It's always good practice to be careful who you trust with your data. Open =/= private. More choices helps, though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Android is very far from linux desktop. And it is private, its is google services that are bad, therefore we can have things like calyx and graphene os still be private.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Depends on how one frames it. It's not the Stallman-defined "GNU+Linux" pureblood OS, but it nevertheless is built from a modified version of the Linux kernel.

And like any OS it can be made private and secure with the right components...or it can be cracked open like a data-farming egg without them.

I guess I can just take the low-hanging fruit and invoke Ubuntu as an alternative example, which was once something of a Linux entry point but has become more than fine collecting user data.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Ironically a Linux-derived OS.

Nothing ironic about it. There's nothing mystical about Linux, it's just a kernel. The guy who made it says he doesn't care about anything but code.

Personally, I only care about the code. When I say maybe there are people who worry about walled gardens and cloud providers who take ownership of your data, I am not one of those people. That's not what I actually care about. That's not what I do. What I do is code. What I care about is code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"derived" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.