someoneFuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones
davelTell me how you really feel š
They also own Visual Studio Code, control VSCode, and effectively control the VSCodium soft fork.
GnuLinuxDudeWhat do you mean about VSCodium? Obviously itās just a differently compiled version of Microsoftās text editor, but what does Microsoft have to do with it, otherwise?
āOtherwiseā is doing Herculean lifting here when the code is nearly 100% Microsoft. The way they control it is by changing VSCodeās code, which is then dutifully incorporated into VSCodium, with the exception of telemetry code.
VSCodium has never promoted itself as anything more than a compilation of VSCodeās base with telemetry disabled and proprietary components, naturally, not included. It has never promised anything else than that. Of course the changes are ādutifully incorporatedā into Codium. Itās not a point of that project to be different. Your first remark made it seem like Microsoft has somehow infiltrated the VSCodium project and changed what it does.
āļø-itās effectively the same as chrome vs chromium. google/microsoft invests the resources to develop it, and someone simply comes and forks it without the closed source parts or telemetry.
which is fine, but means they still get to dictate how the software works. the best real world example i have is chrome and adblockers, or google-made web āstandardsā.
Yeah. Your example: How many forks of Chome/Chromium have rejected Googleās Manifest v3 changes? Zero, because theyāre all soft forks and donāt have the resources to hard fork.
VeganCheesecakeDidnāt Vivaldi? I donāt really use them cause I mostly avoid non-FOSS software, but I seem to remember them announcing theyād be keeping support.
Thatās good to hear.
Edge is proprietary and Microsoft has deep pockets, which explains how theyāre able to do this. I wouldnāt assume theyāll continue to do this, and no one can fork their code should they switch to Manifest v3.
Brave seems to have managed to both remain open source and maintain several revenue streams that add up to quite a lot.
Edit to add: Braveās Manifest v2 support appears to be limited, and Microsoft has already started their planned retirement of Manifest v2.
You dont need hardware verifications with vscode, nor an account, it works with a vpn, u can disable copilot.
Any recommendations on a good general use IDE? Iāve enjoyed Geany a bit here and there myself but honestly Iām just using vim for most things these days. CLI is just so quick and efficient for most use cases, but I still hold out hope for something different.
I donāt have any general recommendations. IMO most of them disappoint, because most of them donāt understand the languages they support very well. It was Microsoft that invented Language Server Protocol and almost every editor adopted. Iām not very impressed by it, and it seems to be stagnant.
AFAIK the best example of an IDE having a deep understanding of its language is DrRacket, which is specific to Racket. The best one that Iāve actually used is JetBrainsās IDEs, enough so that I pay money for it.
This YT video is specifically about a Clojure IDE by one of its developers, but it explains some general shortcoming of a lot of code editors, and why IDEs that understand their language(s) well can be so powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOi8V4qsdVY
whelkNo thanks, I stopped enjoying chess a loooooong time ago and I always hated humoring people and playing it, Chris Hedges had a great show about the psychology of chess players. Iām responding more for the sake of having some kind of interaction, I got the joke.
Some people: Hey do you want to play a game where youāre forcred to limit your options while you give up ever more figures representing various subjects of a European medieval kingdom until you only have a couple of pieces left on the board which represent the nobility?
Me: Not really
Itās a great early 80s movie about Matt Broderick('s character) hacking into a āsupercomputerā thatās programmed to simulate and potentially execute nuclear war, check it out if that seems up your alley
Sounds okay, is irony the right word to use when we have mad men trying to use AI for that exact purpose? I also heard that itās the reason why Chomsky was MIT so that generals could eventually just talk to computers.
Fucking computers, paul cockshott had a great video on the history of computing machines, they were always used for shitty fucking purposes. I loved the book WE as a teenager maybe I should reread it.
I miss the days when I used to love technology and be excited about all the great things it could potentially do for society. Now Iām a luddite trying to stick to older and simpler stuff at most while I cynically point out all the awful ways technology will be used by the selfish and the powerful
Sure but thatās about 8 years too late en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Acquisition_by_Microā¦
ZerushTons of alternatives out there
Iāve wanted to for a while, but this post gave me the final nudge I needed to just buckle down and try selfhosting my own. Forgejo was incredibly easy to set up and my buddies and I are already successfully collaborating on a project that Iāve moved over from Github. So thanks for making your rant post, you made a difference
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