the tech giant has suspended work on the next Vision Pro and is looking for ways to cut costs for a cheaper model that could ship by the end of next year
It absolutely does not. Which non-shitty version of their currently absolutely shitty headset did you think was going to be the magic one that actually works the way describe and advertise? Lolol
I doubt it's for their fun headset since they've already abandoned it. I'm sure it's going to be taking data for mapping or some other dumb bullshit with AI to describe what's around you because you can't fucking use your eyes.
So, yeah. I can't watch the full hour, but I skipped through and get the point.
Essentially, there used to be some guardrails around direct advertising in movies and TV after everyone selling ad time in the 50's-70's got multiple generations hooked on cigarettes and booze. Then it shifted from smokes to Coca-Cola which was in literally every movie in the 00's, and now it's websites.
The trick is, you can leave these brands anywhere in sight on screen, as long as you don't directly tell the audience they need to buy it.
Bottle of Aviator Gin in a bar shot, sure.
Brawny paper towels in a janitorial closet, why not?
You just can't draw attention to it. It's a foolish distinction now because it's been getting abused for so long, but until there are direct bans on all brands on screen - which seems kind of impossible - this will be a thing. Even more so now that you can quickly work AI generated billboard scenes in wherever you want without having to CGI or film it anymore. Sucks.
Imagine that: some scammy motivational speakers who have been peddling a bunch of feel-good bullshit for decades didn't know how to fix a company that was hemorrhaging money with warm thoughts and regards.
This is not "phoning home" as claimed. It is not a SECURITY RISK as claimed. It is a privacy want/complaint/nag at the very VERY least. THIS IS ALSO NOT A PRIVACY FOCUSED PROJECT.
Refer to the original comment, and realize this was being run in a container. So, what...it's a risk to have libcurl ide tidied on your server? Your IP address is so damn private and important? Literally nobody cares.
Y'all need to get better hobbies, seriously. Probably just need to get off the Internet if this is the stuff causing consternation in your lives.
The "code" you linked to is not functional code of any sort. Not to be nitpicky, it's just an HTML image tag, so its Markup at best. All you did was stop the loading of an SVG image. The fact that they source it from their own domain tells you everything: they have a script that runs to check the current number of stars, then generates this image that reflects that. SVG is an image format. It's really standard.
All your other points you're making because you do not have much experience in the software realm, which I'm not saying to be dismissive or anything at all, I'm simply illustrating that all the points you're questioning or mentioning are 100% standard.
you don't make a fork for three lines of code and ask others to "check it out". If anything, just point out the issue and post a diff or a script to fix it. Simple.
They have a pro version, and are using images they generate in a template viewed by users to promote its popularity and try to sell pro. They're running a business out of this. Not every FOSS project is non-profit, and these people are simply trying to sell a product AS WELL as keep it open source for others to enjoy, like yourself. Feel lucky to have the privilege they are letting you use it for free.
The term "phoning home" as you're trying to use it, is wrong. You're implying that it is functionally doing something unexpected. It is not. It is sourcing an image in HTML. The suspicious type of phoning home is code that executes locally and pulls down other functional bits of code that alter the way the software APPEARS to be used. It's a way of obfuscating something shady, like a virus, or malware. This is not that kind of code.
If your concern is simply that the code you've run is sourcing an image from somewhere, I can only imagine how upset you'll be to learn that software repos of this size are pulling things from dozens, if not hundreds of places. This project pulls from rubygems, yarnpkgs, and the dreaded example.com.
Lastly, the reason that team responded to you in that manner was more that they were taken aback. Like "WTF is this person talking about? I don't get it." Realize that they were nice enough to respond, where most project maintainers would just ignore or close the issue.
Also, you might want to freak out about the social badges being sourced in this as well. This isn't a "privacy first" project or anything. They aren't doing anytweird, you're just misunderstanding some things.
Okay, well they were very clear about it, and they have a pro version, so aren't removing the customizations that exist.
Secondly, that isn't a "phone home" bit that you hacked around, it's literally a header that loads a GitHub badge, and that's it. It's part of a lot of open source projects.
Blocking the DNS of the GitHub host it's calling back to is sufficient enough for everyone if this is a concern (it's of no security concern, freal), and you don't need a fork for this to be fixed. Maintaining a fork is an insane amount of work, and trusting someone who is maintaining a forked repo is WAYYYYYY more risky than just using the official repo, which has thousands of stars, and multitudes of users poking through it's code.
I for one would never touch your forked repo without doing a full diff, and I'm not going to worry about doing that every time a release is missed by you, or a fix isn't upstreamed...yada yada. I would just use the official repo, and block the offending GitHub domain if I found it offensive, which I don't.
This only works for specific mechanical failures, and I'd say about 25% of the time. It works because metal shrinks when cold, and this can sort of let a drive limp along for a short period of time to get small amounts of data off.
Drive clicking is the drive arm malfunctioning, and I wouldn't expect the freezer trick to do much if it's a messed up actuator or something. You already know the drive is bad though, so why not.