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The feature that keeps me from moving off of vscode is their markdown support. In particular the ability to drag and drop to insert links to files and images *. Surprisingly, no other editor does this even though I use it all the time. * https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown#_inser...
It's also a good alternative to Obisdian if you don't need smartphone support.
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Disabling telemetry might be interpreted as a self-indicated signal of "I have something to hide", so they jack up the snooping.
Or "I'm a power user" of sorts. Probably a very small minority of users fiddle that setting. Dang said a similarly small minority of users here do all the commenting.
https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
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Disabling telemetry might be interpreted as a self-indicated signal of "I have something to hide", so they jack up the snooping.
I suspect many (or all) VPNs probably do secret logging. People will do their most interesting secret activities on those.
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Every single piece of telemetry sent over the internet includes PII - the IP address of the sender - by virtue of how our internet protocols are designed.
> includes PII - the IP address of the sender Apple provides telemetry services that strips the IP before providing it to the app owners. Routing like this requires trust (just as a VPN does), but it's feasible.
Why is it relevant whether they provide it to app owners directly? The issue people have is the information is logged now and abused later, in whatever form.
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I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language. vi? Good luck with that. And I say that as an experienced vim user who used to tinker a bit.
> I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language. Weird, I'd say that's my experience with vim. I just carry around by dotfiles, which is not that extensive. Hell, I will even feel comfortable in a vi terminal, though that's extremely rare to actually find. Usually vi is…
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Yea, the core was written by me, i just used llm to fix my broken english.
Don't pay any attention to people giving you shit for using translation software. A lot of us sometimes forget that the whole world knows a little English and most of us native speakers have a ridiculous luxury in getting away with being two lazy to learn a few other languages.
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I configured my router to redirect all outbound port 53 udp traffic to adguard home running on a raspberry pi. From the log, it seems to be working reasonably enough, especially for apps that do their own dns resolution like the netflix app on my chromecast. Hopefully they don't switch to dns over https any time soon to circumvent it.
DNS over https depends on the ability to resolve the DoH hostname via DNS, which is blockable via PiHole, or depend on a set of static IPs, which can be blocked by your favorite firewall.
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Yes, naturally I trust my own elected government, or possible relatives/family, far more than I trust a foreign adversary
I'm sorry but why? Your government can use this data to actually hurt you and put you on the no-fly list, or even put you in prison. But a foreign government is limited to what it can do to you if you are not a very high-value target. So I try as much as possible to use software and services from a non-friendly government because this is the highest guarantee that my data will not be used against me in the future. An…
Am i the only one that finds System Information: Hardware specs, OS details, architecture Usage Patterns: Active time, session duration, feature usage Performance Metrics: Response times, resource consumption Unique Identifiers: Machine ID, user ID, device fingerprints Workspace Details: Project information, file paths (obfuscated) Not to really bad that obtrusive? Like i don't really see anything there that i'd be o…
I always want the choice to be mine. I was interested in learning Dart until the installer told me Google would be collecting telemetry. For a programming language. I’ve never looked at it again.