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What’s a DPA, please?
Data Processing Agreement: https://gdpr.eu/data-processing-agreement/
Thank you!
GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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I did not understand that part. Every heavy Emacs or vim user have its own customizations of editor. How does it work with shared image?
Just use an sshfs mount and a local editor.
I think this defeats the purpose of Codespaces, because it would mean that all the code runs locally and only thing that remote server provides is storage?
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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That's the trick, the git is open, but the metadata is what matters. Issues, PRs, integrations into various code auditing services. That's the whole "extend" bit.
By that logic any proprietary product that provides an interface with an open source tool is guilty. I think accusing MS of EEE in this case is a huge stretch; GitHub is a commercial product that uses a popular open source tool with 100% compatibility (that I'm aware of) and actively participates in the development and features of that tool. When Ms start implementing extensions to git that only work with GitHub, we…
there's never a stretch with Microsoft. It is always, and has always been the same play. You can make excuses all you like, but in the end they will attemtp to embrace, extend and extinguish all competition.
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
#584Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the trick, the git is open, but the metadata is what matters. Issues, PRs, integrations into various code auditing services. That's the whole "extend" bit.
By that logic any proprietary product that provides an interface with an open source tool is guilty. I think accusing MS of EEE in this case is a huge stretch; GitHub is a commercial product that uses a popular open source tool with 100% compatibility (that I'm aware of) and actively participates in the development and features of that tool. When Ms start implementing extensions to git that only work with GitHub, we…
I can’t think of a single person I’ve worked with in the last 10 years who understands the difference between vanilla git and GitHub. Nobody really understands why pull requests are named that way, or that it’s possible to have very different workflows to what GitHub offers.
I don’t know that this is the result of a deliberate strategy by GitHub, but by any metric the extend step is a resounding success.
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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If a business is paying for this product, then THEY (not you) are the customer. And in that context - yes, Microsoft may be asked or build a product for managers to manage their workforce, particularly if remote. This could involve presence tracking, engagement tracking (ie, do you open alerts / read your bug reports) etc. One approach would be to monitor what management considers productive / successful employees an…
> One approach would be to monitor what management considers productive / successful employees and also on employees who have gone on PIP's - then train the AI on that data set. I look forward to the papers on how to slack off on your job while the AI classifies you as "a straight shooter with upper management written all over him". Possible title: "An adversarial approach to the TwoBobs Productivity Classifier" (/s…
Sadly, not /s.
I’ve been pitched the TwoBobs Productivity Classifier.
My feedback was anyone who needs it has classified themselves as an unproductive dev manager.
I suggested the concept be made available as being by devs, for devs, purposed as a personal coach, with no uplink to the mothership.
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
#586Serious question: if I were to use this, would Microsoft collect analytics on me (code written, keystrokes, mouse movements, sleep/work schedule, productivity metrics, etc) and monetize that data by using it to build some AI product like Copilot, or build a productivity dashboard so managers can fire people for not being productive enough (like Xsolla did), use it to serve me ads, or do some stupid/irresponsible/unet…
If a business is paying for this product, then THEY (not you) are the customer. And in that context - yes, Microsoft may be asked or build a product for managers to manage their workforce, particularly if remote. This could involve presence tracking, engagement tracking (ie, do you open alerts / read your bug reports) etc. One approach would be to monitor what management considers productive / successful employees an…
It doesn't matter who is paying for the product. You could pay for the product and they could still add usage terms about monetizing and sharing your personal data.
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
#587I feel like all of the problems in the blogpost are solvable without moving everyone to this crazy web development environment. To quote one of the proponents: > I do solemnly swear that never again will my CPU have to compile ruby from source. ...yeah, why was that even happening? Why not distribute pre-built artifacts? I feel like the whole docker ecosystem only exists because people forgot how to distribute softwa…
mumble mumble nix cough
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
#588Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One approach would be to monitor what management considers productive / successful employees and also on employees who have gone on PIP's - then train the AI on that data set. I look forward to the papers on how to slack off on your job while the AI classifies you as "a straight shooter with upper management written all over him". Possible title: "An adversarial approach to the TwoBobs Productivity Classifier" (/s…
Sadly, not /s. I’ve been pitched the TwoBobs Productivity Classifier. My feedback was anyone who needs it has classified themselves as an unproductive dev manager. I suggested the concept be made available as being by devs, for devs, purposed as a personal coach, with no uplink to the mothership.
> I suggested the concept be made available as being by devs, for devs, purposed as a personal coach, with no uplink to the mothership.
Ah yes, the classic "foot in the door" approach. Despite all the good intentions behind it, it still would end badly.
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
#589No serious engineering team would use this and if github have decided to do it, then count me out.
Re: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
#590No serious engineering team would use this and if github have decided to do it, then count me out.
Github has the best part of 10 critical outages every month. It's a surprise when it doesn't go down.