13 Jul
2015
13 Jul
'15
3:54 p.m.
On 07/13/2015 03:05 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
On 13/07/2015 14:33, Gene Heskett wrote:
You can also disable update notifications at runtime. The URL is in the
config file. On GNU/Linux by default ~/.config/ardour4/config and/or
/etc/ardour4/config
Ardour transmits the current version, the OS and architecture via http
(hence the IP address is available as side-effect).
It's a service provided to to people who are interested in new version
notifications. As the pingback page on ardour.org says: "Ardour.org has
no idea who you are or what you are doing with Ardour (and we don't want
to know either)."
Heck, if you're worried about this, you can't even surf the web to begin
with. A simple firefox http request sends a lot more private information
about the user. See https://panopticlick.eff.org/
2c,
robin
On Monday 13 July 2015 07:57:13 Paul Davis
wrote:
I wonder what "genius" thought that was a good idea?
Paul, Ardour's author :-)
And he announced it 5 years ago:
http://lists.ardour.org/pipermail/ardour-users-ardour.org/2010-August/02383…
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Bent Bisballe
Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org>
wrote:
> How
can phone home be disabled? Is recompiling needed? Perhaps
> there's also an option by the preferences I missed.
It is a compile-time-only configuration parameter. It cannot be
disabled at runtime if it was compiled into the program. If there is anything someone who works on
linux/foss code should learn,
its that this is NOT winderz, and we DO value our privacy.
What makes you think your privacy cannot be violated while using Linux
or using FOSS?
The value of FOSS is exactly that you can freely modify the code (in
this case actually just a compile configuration option) if you don't
like a feature..
I think we
can hold the funeral dirge for ardour right about
now, because as long
as its packaged with that enabled, it is not going to be installed here.
As said: it's FOSS, just compile it without that option ;-)