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Like already mentioned, this is not in any way unique to open source software.

On the contrary, being open source adds the opportunity to understand what the software does on a deeper level, and you can always fork (Librewolf is one of many examples that comes to mind).

Do you have any examples where large entities taking over open source project having lead to the project's total demise? This sort of thing happens all the time the in the commercial space.

It of course also happens to some extent to open source projects, but usually that results in forks if the demand is high enough. For commercial software, you don't have many options - especially for subscription based licensing, which is pretty much the norm nowadays.

> Turning off camera LEDs and recording video is an old hack and old news.

This.

Some of the linux webcam drivers drivers have had the option to specify the behavior of the LED via a parameter since way back, including turning it completely off.

I remember this was the case ~20 years ago.

One example (look for the led-option) https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.1/media/v4l-drivers/phili...

This is straight from the documentation:

"But with: `leds=0,0`the LED never goes on, making it suitable for silent surveillance"

I'm surely missing your point here, but isn't that exactly what git does?

`git log <file>` gives you the entire history of commits that touches that particular file.

edit: i suppose you mean the ability to keep track of what is being done in other unmerged branches perhaps?

I've been trying to set up a private google cloud account for some experiments, however anytime i try to add a payment method there is a generic error.

Ironically, there is no way to reach their support without an active paying account, so they're basically blocking me from becoming a paying customer.

I have no confidence left in google for anything critical.

I thought the site was pretty clean, and it's definitely refreshing with a site linked here that does not show a paywall or crash the browser due to some badly written javascript.

I do agree that the font size was a bit large though, but that can be easily fixed by simply reducing font size in the browser. Firefox (I'm sure there are many other options, e.g. Pocket) can show the site in article mode where you can easily adjust the font size to your liking. Problem solved!

Very interesting article by the way!

The statistics also includes all the cases where drivers are not paying attention as they should, and it's still safer than the average car (at least according to Tesla).