<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I mean, fair, you can think me deranged if you like... there&#39;s not much I can really do about that?</p><p>To be very clear on my part, though: none of that is to say that telemetry and the like are wrong. Rather the opposite, in that I wish there were better resources made available to help use it ethically. As you say, it&#39;s quite useful and can help make informed and useful decisions.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> I think this view is deranged. mainly because I&#39;ve spent a career *not* collecting telemetry, and as a result making changes that are necessarily uninformed (and sometimes quite upsetting)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> To be clear, I don&#39;t think human experimentation is bad. Rather it&#39;s when that experimentation is uncontrolled and nonconsentual.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Yes.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> by this logic, any OSS development that has a UX element is human experimentation</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> uuuh that sounds fun!</p>

<p>Check out the demo for no brake no gain, a precision-driving game where skill outshines speed <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/check-out-the-demo-for-no-brake-no-gain-a-precision-driving-game-where-skill-outshines-speed/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/chec</span><span class="invisible">k-out-the-demo-for-no-brake-no-gain-a-precision-driving-game-where-skill-outshines-speed/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nobrakenogain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nobrakenogain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a></p>

<p>Tired: telemetry is a privacy issue.<br />Wired: telemetry is a consent issue.<br />Inspired: it is impossible to use telemetry to influence future decisions without implicitly or explicitly performing human experimentation.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@orbitalmartian" class="u-url mention">@<span>orbitalmartian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@joel" class="u-url mention">@<span>joel</span></a></span> appreciate the kind words, folks. I hear you on the images, I keep meaning to go back and improve them. They&#39;re lo-res because the images on the site are small, so they&#39;re not required to be high res. But when they get through to here via RSS they need to be much bigger. I&#39;ll fix it at some point.</p>