Version of Stellarium without web awareness?
by clipping from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5N7NC)
I just installed Stellarium, after a massive download it immediately geolocated me by IP and started downloading even more stuff. The thing has been removed and my home cleaned up.
Two sites it contacted were stellarium.org and celestrak.com, and they don't seem to put cookies in their HTTP headers. They do have etags for caching. I think tracking is possible with them... though web stuff for coolness' sake is the problem here, more than content tracking or not.
I am now wondering if there is some system-wide thing for geolocation, which is totally unwanted. Application and service providers want that kind of behaviour on our computers, but I want it so that I have to tell the machine where it is (though that includes plugging in a GPS dongle). The computer cannot be able to figure it out on its own.
Can anyone shed any light on which version of Stellarium was the last to not have any online functionality? One that can be installed and that's it.
My old laptop has v0.12.5 on, but maybe I installed that as it was one of the last to work with QT4. I do see that there is one URL in it's config that I hobbled to point at localhost. I half remember one version of Stellarium being horrifically slow on my machine, so maybe I just rolled back to something older for that reason.
<OT>Also, KDE's settings has wiped out half of its proxy settings! Yeah, that's a mess and needs looking into..... I use privoxy. Did it know I plan to use Privoxy to block the videos in the KDE settings? deino.kde.org, from an initial investigate.</OT>
Two sites it contacted were stellarium.org and celestrak.com, and they don't seem to put cookies in their HTTP headers. They do have etags for caching. I think tracking is possible with them... though web stuff for coolness' sake is the problem here, more than content tracking or not.
I am now wondering if there is some system-wide thing for geolocation, which is totally unwanted. Application and service providers want that kind of behaviour on our computers, but I want it so that I have to tell the machine where it is (though that includes plugging in a GPS dongle). The computer cannot be able to figure it out on its own.
Can anyone shed any light on which version of Stellarium was the last to not have any online functionality? One that can be installed and that's it.
My old laptop has v0.12.5 on, but maybe I installed that as it was one of the last to work with QT4. I do see that there is one URL in it's config that I hobbled to point at localhost. I half remember one version of Stellarium being horrifically slow on my machine, so maybe I just rolled back to something older for that reason.
<OT>Also, KDE's settings has wiped out half of its proxy settings! Yeah, that's a mess and needs looking into..... I use privoxy. Did it know I plan to use Privoxy to block the videos in the KDE settings? deino.kde.org, from an initial investigate.</OT>