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Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by antonvs »

petterroea wrote: post #93
dontdoxxme wrote: post #29

Microsoft loves sending emails with "Action required" in the subject, when actually no action is required, or it doesn't apply to you, or whatever. Such corporate speak. It's fun searching your email for "Action required" and finding all the things you were supposed to do and it turns out didn't need to do anything about.

Same with GCP. I have Private test account with nothing on it. I get emails about actions being required regarding APIs I have never used, a few times per year.

You’ll typically only get that for APIs that are enabled in one of your projects. That’s a bit different - those emails are strictly for technical changes that are actually necessary if you’re affected, it’s not part of any sort of marketing scheme.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by mellosouls »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #108
mellosouls wrote: post #12

Discussed here yesterday: Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (575 points, 239 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690977

The real discussion prior to that with input from devs and the update from Microsoft that came after that techcrunch article came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686549

Oops yep missed that one

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by huijzer »

Pooge wrote: post #56
huijzer wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also consider moving some of your repos to Forgejo. I’m running it for more than a year now and it is by far my favorite service. Way faster and essential features do not require monthly payment (branch protection for example). It can easily run on a Raspberry Pi 4 1 GB RAM. Use Docker Compose and put Caddy in front of it for HTTPS. For backups the easy way is to just git pull your repos via cron on some remote s…

You may want to have a look at docker-volume-backup[1]. I personally use it. [1]: https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup/

I avoid docker volumes whenever possible since I find them such a hassle

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by lobsterthief »

kaelyx wrote: post #109
dwedge wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw someone had an idea to have a ticket system where the user chose the priority, and it displaced the current ticket at that priority, with the catch being that this ticket was sent back to the user with "are you sure?" CEO can't login during a demo. Sandra from accounting can't print from the closest printer and confirmed this is higher priority

Currently having this issue, two critical tickets. Ticket A: Elevated Response times for Server A outside of allowed tolerance, people experiencing timeouts Ticket B: Change the colour of a button I wish Ticket B Submitter could see the ticket before them to gauge what critical actually means.

This is why the user can’t be trusted to assign severity. Incentives across teams aren’t aligned and they don’t have visibility into other issues even if they were aligned.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by lobsterthief »

neya wrote: post #99
dontdoxxme wrote: post #29

Microsoft loves sending emails with "Action required" in the subject, when actually no action is required, or it doesn't apply to you, or whatever. Such corporate speak. It's fun searching your email for "Action required" and finding all the things you were supposed to do and it turns out didn't need to do anything about.

I unfortunately took part in their startup program. I was awarded the credits. However, I noticed that everything was super pricey, especially the AI services and the azure interface is basically garbage. It is very easy for you to enable a service and never be able to find it later until you have been billed for it later in the month. Maybe the GCP interface has spoilt me too much. Long story short: I discontinued t…

I think the laws would need to be generally around not hindering competition. If competition were high, and you had a dozen operating systems to choose from, then you’d move away from this annoying one (Windows). And thus Windows would have a lower incentive to engage in this behavior. But current laws don’t discourage monopolies/oligopolies.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by ziml77 »

ZiiS wrote: post #125
ziml77 wrote: post #122

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Really? At my workplace if we had a vendor email us about needing to take some action to continue being able to work with them, but we didn't follow through with that, any business disruption would be squarely on us for not handling it. At the very least even if we can't meet a supposed deadline, we need to work with the vendor to get extensions if possible, and if that's not possible then we either need to mitigate…

The claim is they didn't get any email, not that they ignored it. It feels reasonable to expect Microsoft to have tried an alternative contact method given they are very high profile and easy to contact projects.

Oh ok I misunderstood. I'm in full agreement then, and that flips back to being fully on Microsoft.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by pjmlp »

tock wrote: post #127
pjmlp wrote: post #111

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I don't live in the states.

What is a cheaper but good enough alternative in your opinion?

Here is one with 512 GB SSD, 16 GB, DirectX 12.1, Vulkan 1.3, under 500 euros, and enough connections without dongles.

https://www.auchan.pt/pt/tecnologia-e-eletrodomesticos/tecno...

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by tock »

pjmlp wrote: post #137
tock wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is a cheaper but good enough alternative in your opinion?

Here is one with 512 GB SSD, 16 GB, DirectX 12.1, Vulkan 1.3, under 500 euros, and enough connections without dongles. https://www.auchan.pt/pt/tecnologia-e-eletrodomesticos/tecno...

Interesting. You save 200 euros(in germany) but lose significant CPU performance. As long as its not a chromebook its usable.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by sneak »

awestroke wrote: post #107
sneak wrote: post #31

FYI: on macOS you can’t even ship VPN software that uses the modern APIs outside of the app store for self-distribution. An ADP membership is required , full stop.

Horseshit. Wireguard, tunnelblick, aws vpn client all self distribute

The self-distributed (wireguard-tools) ones use different APIs.

The official WireGuard macOS app that uses the modern and fast OS APIs for VPN is App Store only:

https://www.wireguard.com/install/

I agree that it’s horseshit, but please don’t accuse me of being factually wrong without doing appropriate research.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Post by patates »

IcePic wrote: post #47
patates wrote: post #30

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Writing this from a corporate win11 computer, the whole thing is so laggy, it's unbelievable. Last year, I had revived my old desktop from 2007 with an intel Q6600, windows xp and a clicky dying HDD, and that thing flied compared to this. Dear Microsoft and its partners (Especially DELL!), what the hell happened?!

In some sense, "you did". Your actions, intentional and direct or not, allowed for one more sale of Win11 and an accompanying sad Dell computer, giving them the signal (however weak from you as one single individual) that whatever crap they have been doing up to now, still is a good choice in order to sell one of those combinations.

In some sense, "you also did".

You couldn't argue the case on the internet better, and convince enough people not to give the signal that it's okay. We are all guilty :)

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