That indeed changes things, potentially introducing much more bias. What motivation would somebody have to install this tool and run it? Is it being marketed/advertised somehow? How, where, and to whom? :-P
People who voluntarily report usage are more likely to be new users, experimenting with Linux distributions etc. Greybeards like me will check out new stuff every few months or years, and won't shout about it one way or another. We'll probably not send statistics when prompted, either.
IF TLS is used AND configured optimally on both ends, THEN the in transit message contents should be very secure, in that transient session keys were used.
I would be interested to know how often those two preconditions hold true though.
Of course, this is only one small link in the chain. There aint no magic bullet.
Yawn. I guess everyone who doesn't tow the party line and join the two minutes hate is censored here. My commentary was reasoned and appropriate to the comic.
When you have cloud providers growing faster than the region's grid capacity, something has to give ... throttle growth there, or plan for mega growth? I guess it helps that nuclear is green again. 😁
In some countries private law firms chase down infringers on behalf of copyright holders. They then attempt shakedowns with the threat of legal action if you don't pay. They have a financial interest to catch people, and moral compasses vary.
Also, mistakes can happen (you, your family, guests using your wifi, in the courts, in the ISPs, in the law firms, in the tech they are using to identify people). Shit happens.
And if (when) it happens, then you would still have to deal with it, costing you time and money.
Understand the risks and make choices to minimize them if you can.
PvE seems like a DLC feature to me (and hence should be included with EoD), but could have been marketed as a subscription instead, with the new edition including it for life. ie. Make it feel like renting a server. Even their backdown seems like a bad business move on their part.
The real problematic part, which they don't seem to be addressing (or are they?): the scavs-don't-target-you-at-distance thing is clearly over the top and pay to win, as is the invite-your-friends-to-a-live-match feature, unless it's PvE mode only and I misunderstood.
edit: it looks like it will be PvE only now.
I can now train a generative voice on my own voice and have it sing along to my own generative music.
A few more tweaks to make it consistently off key and it will be near indistinguishable! I will be able to torture not just my children, but my great-grandchildren, far into the future.
You need training material for negative prompts too.