↳ In-reply-to » On the topic of Programming Languages and Telemetry. I'm kind of curious... Do any of these programming language and their toolchains collect telemetry on their usage and effectively "spy" on your development?

@prologic@twtxt.net @xuu@txt.sour.is they’re setting up the infrastructure and developer buy-in to stick more and more insidious garbage in there. Before you know it they’ll propose “training AI” on this data or you’ll find they’ve been doing it all along.

Always say no to more data collection. Always, no matter how good it may seem. These companies are institutionally unable to control themselves. Whether this Russ guy personally has bad intentions is irrelevant. The company and culture he’s embedded in has repeatedly demonstrated they are untrustworthy. Especially when it comes to data like this.