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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I really hope the silence from allies is because we are waiting for the American election to be over.
All limitations on Ukraine need to be lifted, and USA has only supplied 10% of what they promised.
Ukraine has fought admirably, it’s time we help them to end this. Not just enable them to draw it out indefinitely.
Doesn’t have to be NATO, it could be bilateral agreements, like Russia did with North Korea.
OK, so show me this democracy, that had 30+ years f double digit economic growth.
I’m all for democracy, and will oppose anything else, but let’s not make our ideals cloud our vision of reality.
China is not succeeding despite or because of a 1 party rule, but because they’ve had economic policies that stimulated growth.
Economies prefer open markets and stability and predictability, whether it’s delivered by a democracy or not is probably irrelevant.
Democracies tend to be the best guarantee for the conditions that benefit economy, but China has done a very good job at it too.
Wow I didn’t even know that Russia tried to become a member of NATO back in 1954.
But now I’ve read a very cool article describing the history around it:
https://www.military.com/history/russia-once-tried-join-nato-alliance-formed-counter-threats-russia.html
And yes you are right, Hungary is sabotaging EU from within, to benefit Russia.
Rumor is that North Korea get what a volunteer would get.
I believe Russia recently raised that to the equivalent of $30k.
If true that is $300 million for Kim Jong Un. On top of all the crap equipment Russia has bought.
Not a lot for a normal country, but for a dictator who pocket most of it, it’s probably pretty nice.
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.
Except Hungary can leave EU any time they wish. So please if you don’t want to stay, just get the fuck out Hungary. You won’t be missed Orban.
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.
Also Taiwan is the remains of the original legal government of China. Which meant mainland China wasn’t recognized originally after the revolution.
Which was of course equally stupid.
Taiwan is an independent country, failing to recognize that is immoral. Pleasing China by recognizing their one China policy, is equally immoral, and will only serve to encourage China in their hostilities against Taiwan, exactly as was the case with Russia and Ukraine and other previous Soviet states.
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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?