cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1800563

> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/straw-poll-on-your-preferences-about-opt-in-opt-out-for-possible-data-collection/85675/2 > > This poll is a bit hard to understand but essentially you could vote for multiple options, the highest opt-out option is at 26%, meaning 74% of people oppose this idea. > > The original proposal is at 16%, for a jarring 84% disapproval rate. > > Despite overwhelming negative feedback, Red Hat is currently drafting a revised proposal. > > But what about Red Hat? > > This is the link to the proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry#Privacy-preserving_Telemetry_for_Fedora_Workstation > > These parts are all interesting and contradict some people who argue Red Hat has no hand in this issue: > > > Name: Michael Catanzaro > > Email: <mcatanzaro@redhat.com> > > and > > > The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics. > > and > > > It is Fedora Legal's obligation to ensure our data collection complies with legal requirements in the jurisdictions in which Red Hat operates > > and > > > Occasionally, Red Hat might need to collect specific metrics to justify additional time spent on contributing to Fedora or additional investment in Fedora. > > The quotes above were handpicked. There are 7 matches for "Red Hat" in the link above, not counting the email address.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/straw-poll-on-your-preferences-about-opt-in-opt-out-for-possible-data-collection/85675/2

This poll is a bit hard to understand but essentially you could vote for multiple options, the highest opt-out option is at 26%, meaning 74% of people oppose this idea.

The original proposal is at 16%, for a jarring 84% disapproval rate.

Despite overwhelming negative feedback, Red Hat is currently drafting a revised proposal.

But what about Red Hat?

This is the link to the proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry#Privacy-preserving_Telemetry_for_Fedora_Workstation

These parts are all interesting and contradict some people who argue Red Hat has no hand in this issue:

> Name: Michael Catanzaro > Email: <mcatanzaro@redhat.com>

and

> The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics.

and

> It is Fedora Legal's obligation to ensure our data collection complies with legal requirements in the jurisdictions in which Red Hat operates

and

> Occasionally, Red Hat might need to collect specific metrics to justify additional time spent on contributing to Fedora or additional investment in Fedora.

The quotes above were handpicked. There are 7 matches for "Red Hat" in the link above, not counting the email address.

> (RTTNews) - South Africa's consumer price inflation slowed for an eighth month in a row in June to its lowest level in nearly two years, preliminary data from Statistics South Africa showed Wednesday.

> Separate data from the statistical office showed that retail sales continued to decline in May.

> The consumer price index rose 5.4 percent year-on-year following a 6.3 percent increase in May. Economists had forecast 5.6 percent inflation.

> The latest inflation rate was the weakest since October 2021, when it was 5.0 percent.

> Headline inflation sank below the upper limit of the South African Reserve Bank's monetary policy target range, the statistical office said.

> Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has ruled out signing a trade deal with the EU unless Brussels eases requirements for Brasília to open up its manufacturing industry to foreign competition.

> Lula, who is in Brussels to try to speed up progress on a trade deal between Brussels and the Mercosur bloc of four South American countries, said he wanted to change rules that would prevent signatories handing government contracts to domestic companies without a competitive process that would be open to foreign firms.

> A proposal circulated between the Brazilian, Argentine, Uruguayan and Paraguayan officials that are working on the deal would, Lula said, allow governments to continue to award contracts to smaller domestic firms, as “every country in the world” does, and support a “sovereign industrial policy”.

> It would be presented in Brussels “within two to three weeks”, Lula said at a press conference, saying he believed the EU officials would bend to the Latin American countries’ demands.

> HANOI, July 19 (Reuters) - Vietnam has approved a plan to expand its national fuel storage capacity by 2030, with investment of up to 270 trillion dong ($11.4 billion).

< The investment would raise the country's crude oil and refined fuel storage capacity to 75 to 80 days of net imports, according to the plan signed by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on Tuesday and reviewed by Reuters.

Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by Martin Petty, Kanupriya Kapoor

I'm currently unable to install Debian using the latest netinst from https://www.debian.org/distrib/, when selecting any "Install" option, the screen glitches.

Looking up the issue in the internet, it seems Debian is trying to launch the wrong resolution, some users suggest using the "Help" option in the menu to do something related to VGA but there is no such option on my screen.

Another user successfully Debian by actually editing their ISO to include the correct resolution... sorry if that's what it takes to install Debian, then I won't.

I'm not interested in the liveusb version as it is heavily bloated, if anyone knows of a command to trim down the live version to be the same as the netinst, I may try the Live CD.

> Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) ripped the Department of Defense's finances for failing its fifth consecutive audit and inability to account for 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets.

> "The most ravenous Leviathan of our government that devours the people's wealth is the Department of Defense," Higgins said in an impassioned speech during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the DOD's failed audit, financial management practices.

> Saadieh tells Al Jazeera what she loves about refereeing, the challenges she’s overcome, and what it means to officiate in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. action during the 2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament soccer match between Myanmar and Bangladesh

> The 34-year-old of Palestinian heritage grew up in Syria. In 2010, while studying sports education at university, she saw that no women were taking part in refereeing training, so she decided to give it a go.

> She moved to Malaysia in 2012 after the Syrian war broke out and began refereeing there. She moved with her family to Sweden in late 2016 as part of a United Nations resettlement programme and now referees in the top flight of Sweden’s women’s league and in the second tier of the men’s league.

> She has officiated in Women’s AFC Cup and Asian Cup matches, World Cup qualifiers, and games at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Saadieh has also worked with the Palestinian Football Association.

> A confiança dos brasileiros no presidente da República subiu ao maior nível desde 2012, segundo mostra o Índice de Confiança Social (ICS), série anual de pesquisas presenciais feitas desde 2009 pelo Ibope e mantida com a mesma metodologia pelo Ipec. Segundo o levantamento, o chefe do Executivo federal marca hoje 50 pontos em uma escala de zero (nenhuma confiança) a cem (muita confiança). O número de agora é nove pontos superior ao que foi registrado em 2022, último ano da gestão Bolsonaro.

> O índice do Ipec atribui notas de zero a cem para 20 instituições. O presidente da República ainda aparece na parte de baixo do ranking, na 16ª posição, apesar da melhora registrada em 2023.

> Os eleitores do Nordeste são os que declaram maior confiança em Lula (na região, o presidente da República marca 66 pontos). Essa foi a única região onde o petista superou o número de votos de Bolsonaro no segundo turno das eleições de outubro. Por outro lado, os níveis mais baixos de confiança no petista são observados entre eleitores das classes A e B (39 pontos) e entre os evangélicos (43), grupos que majoritariamente apoiaram Bolsonaro em 2022.

> Millions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error.

> Emails intended for the US military's ".mil" domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the ".ml" suffix.

> Some of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.

> The Pentagon said it had taken steps to address the issue.

> According to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier identified the problem more than 10 years ago.

> Since 2013, he has had a contract to manage Mali's country domain and, in recent months, has reportedly collected tens of thousands of misdirected emails.

> Final opinion polls project that the right-wing PP party will win a majority in a coalition with the far-right Vox.

> Madrid, Spain – Should polls prove correct and far-right Vox party form part of a future Spanish government after next Sunday’s snap general elections, it is not just pro-independence political parties that risk being banned: even Catalan language magazines in public libraries are in danger of disappearing.

> “Mission accomplished,” Jesus Albiol, the newly-appointed councillor for culture for Vox in the town of Burriana, proudly announced on Twitter last week after cancelling the subscriptions for the magazines, two of them children’s comics, for the local library.

> It says further rule-tightening by US officials risks ‘disrupting supply chains, causing significant market uncertainty’.

> The US-based Semiconductor Industry Association has called on President Joe Biden’s administration to “refrain from further restrictions” on chip sales to China as chief executives from the biggest US semiconductor firms planned to visit Washington this week to press their views on China policy.

> The trade group’s statement on Monday came as the Biden administration considers updating a sweeping set of rules imposed in October to hobble China’s chip industry and a new executive order restricting some outbound investment.

> Speaking to Christian Zionist group, Florida governor and Republican US presidential candidate pledges support for Israel.

> Washington, DC – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has reiterated claims that the West Bank is not occupied, suggesting that Israel should be able to continue to build settlements on the Palestinian territory without interference from the United States.

> Speaking to Christians United for Israel (CUFI) on Monday, DeSantis underscored his pro-Israel bona fides, including his efforts to crack down on companies that boycott the US ally.

> NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) - India has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates that will allow it to settle trade in rupees instead of dollars, boosting India's efforts to cut transaction costs by eliminating dollar conversions.

> During a visit by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE on Saturday, the two countries also agreed to set up a real-time payment link to facilitate easier cross-border money transfers.

> The two agreements will enable "seamless cross-border transactions and payments, and foster greater economic cooperation", said a statement from the Reserve Bank of India on Saturday.

> Iranian authorities intensify crack down on violations of the country’s mandatory hijab rules.

> Tehran, Iran – Iran has relaunched patrols by the so-called morality police as authorities escalate their efforts to enforce the country’s mandatory hijab rules.

> Saeid Montazeralmahdi, the spokesperson for the Iranian law enforcement force, confirmed on Sunday that police patrols were now operational on foot and with vehicles to crack down on people whose covering is not deemed appropriate in the Islamic Republic.

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

> At least 289 children are known to have died at sea in the first six months of this year while attempting to reach Europe, according to the United Nations children agency (UNICEF).

> The figure is nearly double the number recorded in the first half of 2022, the UNICEF said on Friday, adding that the children made the perilous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea driven by conflict and climate change.

> Verena Knaus, the UNICEF’s global lead on migration and displacement, said the true figures were likely to be higher as many shipwrecks on the Central Mediterranean leave no survivors or go unrecorded.