Post #1941428
2026-04-30 17:13 UTC
GitHub recently announced that starting with v2.91.0 GitHub CLI will start sending pseudonymized telemetry data back to GitHub.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-22-github-cli-opt-out-usage-telemetry/
Since this is an opt-out feature, most users will have it activated without knowing it. This is unacceptable in my opinion. So I took the liberty of turning this into an opt-in, disabled by default for nixpkgs.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/515047
#GitHub #nixos #nixpkgs #privacy
Replies (4)
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@alerque@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 17:34
@britter Check Arch packages, I did that that too. I also objected upstream and it sounds like it might get changed to opt-in for self builds and only enabled be default for their binaries.
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@trivial@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-30 17:43
@britter This makes me happy to hear
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@ms@tux.social 2026-04-30 17:47
@britter thank you, that's the user friendly choice.
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@feoh@oldbytes.space 2026-04-30 19:31
@britter At least they're 1) Being really open about it and 2) offering straight forward opt-out.