If there’s a company policy against, who knows, sending any company’s IP to a random third party known for shitting on both license terms and their own ToS, having your work marked like this is a big red flag. And since it “accidentally” happened to everyone, either you dismiss all the suspected bogus entries and let the rats in, or you have to carefully review everything.

It’s big trouble either way.

no one is jumping to Vim

I’m seriously thinking about going back to VIM. At this point the only thing holding me back is that I like the file tree view of GUI tools. It’s not much.

I looked into “lightweight” alternative, but their PR and “features” make them seems almost worst than vscode. Zed in particular; people praise it for being “simple”, but the biggest upside seems to be “GPU accelerated” and “not as sluggish as vscode” which, ok, I guess, but I don’t think an IDE needs to be GPU accelerated and vscode don’t feel sluggish at all even on my modest first gen NUC so…

While I understand the sentiment, this have nothing to do with vscode, which you can perfectly use on Linux and with whatever cvs you want.

Article talk about pushing a large model on people’s computer. You minimize this by going about McDonalds, Shell, BP. Do you even know what “whataboutism” mean? Your first sentence is “what about McDonald, Shell, BP”.

Oh, some whataboutism. Great.

Also great to know you don’t have to pay to get storage in your devices, otherwise you’d be quite unhappy to see it taken out of your control for no feature (Chrome still relies on cloud services for most AI features).

The AI model we’re talking about here is not used for most of the AI features, which instead relies on cloud services. Those 4GB are there only for a fringe feature most people don’t know/don’t care about, hidden behind hoops you’ll have to jump through to get.

If they start looking into your stuff for any reason, and suspect that a user connected to your site through a VPN, you’re in.

It doesn’t have to be true to begin with. And it doesn’t have to be enforced at scale, only when needed.

Even worse, that would not necessarily help. If someone’s accessing your website through a VPN that’s not located in that state, you would not block it… then become liable.

Better block everything at this point -_-

Irrelevant. The end goal is they can say “you connected to a site without going through our checkpoint, you’re liable”. Then the fun begins.

The teshnikully… discussions are useless against this. Heck, given how some networks operate, I would not be surprised if some people would fall into this without even knowing.

Remember when we told people “they’ll make it illegal to use a VPN” and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”.

The fuck it isn’t. Traffic coming from a VPN? That’s a paddlin’, kiddo.

They’re not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they’re still trying to masquerade as a “think of the children!” measure. Those fuckers.

1. Have a project works well
2. Amass a massive community with lots of goodwill
3. Project gets bought/merged/under new management
4. new management destroy everything that attracted the community and goodwill
5. ???
6. Somehow, not profit

I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?

Remember people, in today’s USA, it’s better to be a sex offender than literally anything else. It’s even better if you meddle with kids; that could secure you a position in the government. But girls liking girls? Big no-no.

For the “online video call” part, plenty. For the whole integration with agenda, persistent chatroom, etc… plenty, too. Nothing is 100% a match on his own, but depending on what your users actually uses, you can basically self-host a whole “meeting/project tracking” stack on your own with nextcloud at this point.

Or if you’re a little bit fancier, alternative management tools. But we did not need fancy.

What does having a git server have to do with copilot subscriptions?

New meme dropping: “telling you I told you so? Yes, I think I will”

Oh, people didn’t like the idea of giving their ID to third parties? Let’s move up to irreplaceable body parts. Next step: your fucking blood. Good luck declaring that one stolen when the database inevitably leaks.

The youtube website itself isn’t enough “first party” to you?

That would be a good way to do it, if the goal was to be able to restrict/protect kids. Unfortunately, this have very little to do with that.

but I don’t see an alternative

An alternative to what? This will not prevent children from accessing content. The weak point is the humans that willingly allows it in the first place. Having an extra step won’t stop them if it can help them not be bothered by actually having to look after their kid.

This is not sacrificing freedom to gain security; it’s sacrificing freedom to not gain anything.

Fucking onion.