While VSCode itself is open source, some of its most useful add popular Microsoft-owned extensions does not seem to be open. And I hate how reliant I am on those. The list includes remote ssh, Python etc. Without these extensions VSCode loses a lot of edge over other editors like sublime or notepad++.
Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
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Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you release source code under a FOSS license doesn’t that specifically mean that you explicitly consent to it being used in ways you might not be fine with?
No, the licence is the thing that defines what they'd be fine with. I don't think it's possible to write a licence that allows you to do things with the software that the licence forbids.
I think that’s mostly my point. GP release source code, presumably under a license that permitted this use. It’s okay to not be happy that it was used this way… but that’s life
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am the last guy to play apologist to Microsoft and Google. While the potential for abuse is there, these are the same sorts of concerns raised over UEFI secure boot, and the sky failed to fall over that. You can still run Linux if you want, it's fine. Things will likely be OK. Maybe more annoying than before.
"can run linux if you want" - but it's difficult enough that most of us just give up and run one or the other and it's definitely not user friendly enough to ever teach a relative. I've been a casual Linux user for 25 years now. I've officially given up dualbooting. One software update by Microsoft or accidental EFI change the house of cards seems to fall apart.
idk, I've been dual booting for awhile with secure boot and haven't had any issues. It was definitely less stable like 10 years ago sure, but nowadays I think a lot of the wrinkles have been ironed out.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#124Google search has become nearly unusable, while Microsoft’s core consumer products still seem OK - you can still install Windows 11 without a Live account through a workaround. I can run games on Linux and do work on a Mac. Search is still a problem, but I am increasingly turning to ChatGPT for searching anything non current event, with Bing increasingly. I was a full Google stack, Android, Home, TV, everything, for…
> Google search has become nearly unusable This is a weird meme given how many billions of searches Google handles daily.
Not as weird as this meme. You assume it’s some signal expression rather than that I would just pay Google money every month to provide search results that don’t prioritize advertisements over more accurate results that don’t calculate a margin.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#125I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads. The content being created for YouTube is fantastic, you can easily watch news from all over the world, conference talks, lectures, interviews, in-depth documentaries and deep dive analysis that blows away anything you'll ever s…
The hate for youtube is understandable when you consider how much of it Google changes without listening to anyone. They know they have an effectively monopoly position on video hosting and thus just do whatever they want.
They'll let their system ban whoever it wants, only letting a human review things if the person is sufficiently large/well-connected. They change their policies on a whim regardless of impact on people making a living off Youtube, same with demonetization, they also continue to allow content-ID and DMCA to be abused and have made search completely useless.
People are still using YouTube not because they like it, but simply because of the existing network effect and wanting to support their preferred creators. Thus it makes total sense why people would be willing to pay creators but not Google.
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#126The best part is that Microsoft and Google are working together towards the end goal of locking users out of their own machines. Microsoft is really pushing for its trusted OS platform, with a completely locked down kernel, that will grant them full control over what can and cannot be done on the computer. Google is pushing for the same, but in the browser space. Except their Web Integrity effort has no chance of suc…
Do you have any sources or evidence to support this claim?
Pluton, PSP, Intel ME, Remote attestation, Secure Boot
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#127Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#128The best part is that Microsoft and Google are working together towards the end goal of locking users out of their own machines. Microsoft is really pushing for its trusted OS platform, with a completely locked down kernel, that will grant them full control over what can and cannot be done on the computer. Google is pushing for the same, but in the browser space. Except their Web Integrity effort has no chance of suc…
They should merge into one company. Then all of these actions will be justifiable in the name of seamless user experience and vertical integration.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#129Terminally online behaviour. Completely unhealthy. None of these companies are going to have a significant impact on your life.
as a computer practitioner I think google has done immense and irreperable damage to my field as a whole
as a consumer, yeah. but I can still mostly avoid them.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#130I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads. The content being created for YouTube is fantastic, you can easily watch news from all over the world, conference talks, lectures, interviews, in-depth documentaries and deep dive analysis that blows away anything you'll ever s…
I'd like to take this paid option, but for some reason the official YouTube app on my Google Pixel is broken - the screen overlay never goes away, I can't see comments on videos, and trying to go to a channel takes me to "An error occurred RETRY" screen. Unfortunately, I don't think Google does any kind of support for their YouTube app on their phones. Casual googling brought me to some forum posts that didn't seem h…
I pay for premium and more than half of the time I just use the browser version. Maybe slightly less snappy but it is fully featured and works.