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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Why do I feel that KDE is slow
From:       Xen <list () xenhideout ! nl>
Date:       2015-09-09 11:08:56
Message-ID: 55F01348.1000308 () xenhideout ! nl
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On 09/09/2015 08:32 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Xen composed on 2015-09-08 20:40 (UTC+0200):
>
>> Ah, you know, I can't care. There is no hardware issue.
>
> Xorg.0.log has nothing personal in it, unless you count the hostname on the
> kernel cmdline. As your edition omits that which might confirm whether you
> might have any hardware issue, I'm hard pressed to think of any more help I
> might offer to ease your pain, even though I have multiple machines with
> Intel 4 Series video.

The system itself is personal, because not everyone has the same laptop. 
Even saying that it is a laptop is in itself an information leak. I'm 
concerned that there are automated data aggregators that tie all of 
these things together, much like Google does. If you sign in with 2 
diffent google accounts on the same IP-address, Google probably ties 
them together. There might be other parties that might be interested in 
even more data. I'm concerned that they are so advanced in this that 
should conditions warrant it, a complete profile of your person can be 
had, including the computer devices you use. Any form of public 
relevation of your computer internals is an information leak. In that 
regard. The open source promise of random people helping you with 
computer issues you did not really even ask for, and having to...

Like, if you want to report a bug, some sites in the OSS world require 
you to submit a complete hardware profile. Something that would normally 
happen internal to an organisation, happens in the open in OSS, 
including all data that belongs to your person or your computer that is 
needed for performing the task. It is one reason why I feel OSS is not 
so great.

Even IRC chat logs are all indexed by google. It may be one reason why 
people are trying to keep those channels clean, including this one. If I 
search own nicks/names on google I sometimes run into IRC chat logs. 
That means I may have asked a personal question on computing and it is 
now public record. That means aggregators can now tie my nick (which is 
a common nick of mine on IRC) to software I'm using. Harvesters can 
easily discover what IRC channels I have visited. My profile is available.

There are even computers or networks "for educational purposes" who 
publicly log when you logged in to their system!.

With a normal company and its customer support portal, all messages 
would be confidential. Here, it is even being indexed by google, the 
most common, non-specialist search engine there is.

I know many authors in OSS give away everything they have and are for 
free; and there is a lot of stealing taking place. Everything has to be 
"free". There was a dude on a customer support page for a commercial 
Version Control System for software who demanded that the entire source 
code of that commercial website be made "free", in other words: given 
away for free for all who want it. Well, he wanted to pay money for it, 
but that doesn't change the thing. Their code is worth much more than 
some subscription payment of someone who wants to hawk away their code 
and their secrets.

In OSS everything is in the open but you also have no privacy and no 
personal belongings; everything seems to be owned by everyone; publish 
early and publish often. Even the prospect of cleaning up your release 
history (rewriting Git) is often met with scorn. People feel everything 
you do should always be entirely public, it seems.

I feel "public Git" is like a contradiction. Public is meant for 
releases; even if you publicise your code (which I like) you don't have 
to publicise its creative history.

I am constantly encountering email address I've used making it onto spam 
lists. I can often track the source of this because I use many. I know 
for example messages on the site for PHP development gets extracted by 
harvesters. I know mailing lists are not secure; I regularly come across 
such email addresses being harvested in whatever way. Recently (today) a 
spammer sent email directly to the members of a mailing list on a proxy 
server software. Perhaps he just aggregated by being on that list himself.

But to get back to the story at hand: I did not really request hardware 
help from you. I don't know why you want it. There is just a 0% chance I 
have a hardware issue. I do not experience extreme lags in my system. 
I'm sorry if I made it out to be. The things are have described are all 
mostly and most! -- designer choice. The fact that a window display is 
instant but the window switching itself is not: that is a choice made by 
someone who didn't really think about it. What I'm trying to do is to 
get people to THINK, but it is not very successful thus far.

In doing so I am also thinking myself, so it works both ways.

Any case, thank you for your help and your good humour, good will.
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