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Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by toast0 »

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #16
ryandrake wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many people who are otherwise functional in society, for whatever reason just can't play well with others when it comes to online communication. This can be true for both software maintainers and users. People can't just leave their emotions at the door and file a bug report or respond to a help request, without including a little personal jab or passive aggressive snipe. Looking at some of those replies to users,…

It’s off topic but I don’t believe most people are functional in society. I think they are hiding their shitty behavior to themselves and to others, and their true self comes out once in a while. They hide it mostly to their family, but other human beings are treated like NPCs. For example I live in the south of France and people are literally crazy on the road but they still avoid accidents by some kind of miracle.…

> The young new mom who pretends to love her children is speeding on the road like an idiot.

If everyone is crazy on the road, it's best to reduce the exposure to the road. Speeding decreases time spent on the road. Speeding on the road is genius, not stupid.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by razakel »

ihateolives wrote: post #81
monokai_nl wrote: post #58

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That's untrue. I've created https://monokai.pro , to my knowledge the first commercial theme. It's been going strong for years now. People are willing to pay for nice things. Especially if it takes longer to create it yourself. A theme is more than a list of colors. Monokai Pro contains custom designed icons and color filters too, and some code logic to sync it all up. It needs continued updates, as editors keep evol…

I paid happily for monokai pro vscode since it was a one time payment. However I will not purchase a subscription for jetbrains intellij because per year it'll cost me the same amount as the intellij idea ultimate and that just doesn't seem like a fair price.

You get a perpetual licence after one year of payments.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

TZubiri wrote: post #130

One of the things I love about the internet is learning how different people can be, I perceive it as different than me but I assume everyone has their quirks. In this case, this is one of the most extreme instances of people installing lots of dependencies. The moment I realized something was different in me was left pad, I already felt that couldn't be me. The log4j incident hit me different, it COULD have easily b…

> The log4j incident hit me different, it COULD have easily been me.

That couldn't be me, because I don't use Java, PHP, Windows APIs, or `xdg-open`. The closest I come to Java-esque "include ALL THE BATTERIES" is the occasional Python script, but I won't use `http.server`. (Incidentally, I don't get very much done.)

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by diggan »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #83
NetOpWibby wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I paid for Dracula back when I could stare at dark mode for hours. Now I use Monokai Pro Light (paid for this too). Free themes are a dime a dozen. Paid themes means someone's incentivized to keep working on it and adding icons, &c.

No, paid themes are just passive income for their creators, since they get free advertising from IDE marketplaces and it costs them nothing to run. You can google free vscode theme and get hundreds of literally the same thing.

> and it costs them nothing to run

Assuming that the editor never removes/adds/changes anything then yeah, it's basically free. But since most editors are somewhat of a moving target, it does take a bit of maintenance to make sure everything continues to look right as things update.

The worst part with maintaining a theme/colorscheme is that you can't really rely on automated testing to catch most of the issues, unless you start doing snapshot testing comparing PNGs or similar, and is the biggest time-sink when a new editor version been released.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by diggan »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #125
koakuma-chan wrote: post #32

Nobody is gonna pay for a VSCode theme.

People used to pay for ringtones. People pay for all sorts of things that might seem weird to you because people have different tastes.

Heck, iPhone users AFAIK still can't just put their own .wav as a ringtone and need to pay Apple to use songs/sounds as ringtone.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by bmicraft »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #144
theobr wrote: post #109

Hey y'all, I made the most prominent fork of this extension "Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You)" The maintainer went off the deep end last year. He pulled the (originally apache 2) source offline, then started threatening to sue people for hosting alternative versions, including them in other IDEs, etc. Genuine lunatic. Out of an abundance of precaution, I've taken the following action on my fork: 1. I have the VS…

To me it seems ridiculous, that a theme could even accumulate such things as analytics and even lots of dependencies. A theme is usually something self-contained. And even more ridiculous, that anyone can, as you write, "force uninstall" anything from my machine. So glad I am not a VS Code user. It seems all the typical corporate BS is happening with its marketplace and plugins.

Try Qt themes, they're binaries compiled from C++ code :)

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by sigmoid10 »

Curiously, someone on reddit noticed suspicious changes in this extension 7 months ago [1]. Obfuscation in open source is usually an extreme red flag. Microsoft really needs to rethink their security model for vs code extensions. It has simply become way too profitable to target given whatever they are doing against it. For every dev they ban 10 will come with new malicious extensions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1eq40o2/has_the_mat...

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by valsaven »

lil-dev wrote: post #150

it is very annoying the message that appears in VS Code linux, "We have uninstalled 'equinusocio..." please guys fix this. I have tried to uninstall the extension but magically it appears again, for today I have to use another IDE because of how annoying it is...

I did the following (it might help you too): 1. Close VS Code 2. Go to `C:\Users\USER\.vscode\extensions` 3. Delete the folder with that extension 4. Open extensions.json, find and delete the block related to that extension, then save the file 5. That’s it

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by jorams »

f272529 wrote: post #132
theobr wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only potential risk was the use of sanity to render a changelog. I didn't want to risk it, so I gutted that and a ton of other stuff. Just published a new, stripped down version. https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you/p...

Ok, but did you remove something that explicitly appeared malicious? This is a key detail that I am not seeing in your comments or commit messages.

That's covered by

> I did a thorough combing of the code base when I forked. Just did another audit and still not seeing anything suspicious.

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