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@dang can you please update the link to the archive link
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it's a problem. As soon as it became easy to ask for money via Patreon or githib sponsorship, etc... tons of people are going to try to get some for minimal effort. It's just the nature of the beast.
Asking for money isn’t a problem. The problem is this person went out of their way to extract money by harassing people who rightfully use the open source Apache 2 version, switching the marketplace extension to a closed source version with obfuscated code (likely malicious according to MS), and possibly more, all this for doing a quite small amount of work. That’s after already raising $7.6k, apparently.
LoC is a red herring. And the fact that thousands of people decided to introduce his LoC as a dependency in their local development environment makes the point.
I'm surprised to see supposed software engineers get this wrong. We tend to dismiss look&feel type things as low effort which is funny because very few of us could make a make a good theme if we tried, yet it's "just" a matter of picking colors.
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Many English speaking countries, I'm sure the US is more the exception than the rule in this case. Of course, 'git' is also an insult.
Git is a fairly mild insult though, roughly equivalent to calling someone annoying. I'm sure at least a few of us have thought Git (the tool) to be aptly named, from time to time.
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only in UK IIRC
35+ years ago, my friend insisted it meant the UK definition and, until now, every time I heard the word, I'd think of the time my, otherwise smarty-pants, friend didn't know what the most basic, least offensive, slang meant.
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Asking for money isn’t a problem. The problem is this person went out of their way to extract money by harassing people who rightfully use the open source Apache 2 version, switching the marketplace extension to a closed source version with obfuscated code (likely malicious according to MS), and possibly more, all this for doing a quite small amount of work. That’s after already raising $7.6k, apparently.
Making a theme is not minimal effort which is why 99.9999% of everyone uses preexisting themes rather than making their own. LoC is a red herring. And the fact that thousands of people decided to introduce his LoC as a dependency in their local development environment makes the point. I'm surprised to see supposed software engineers get this wrong. We tend to dismiss look&feel type things as low effort which is funny…
It's also funny to see a "supposed software engineer" shit on other's tools and post veiled personal attacks based on a single Internet comment. If I were you I'd probably insinuate you've never worked on any large code base so don't know LoC definitely correlates with complexity as a rough first signal (not to mention I included a rough analysis of actual code as well), but I shouldn't do that based on a single comment. Anyway I've maintained plenty of open source code bases large and small, popular (>10k stars, yes that's not a very good metric but it's also a useful first signal) or not, so I'm pretty well equipped to evaluate maintenance burden.
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35+ years ago, my friend insisted it meant the UK definition and, until now, every time I heard the word, I'd think of the time my, otherwise smarty-pants, friend didn't know what the most basic, least offensive, slang meant.
It's pretty mild, but still offensive in the UK. Your friend was right to believe that much. That everyone thinks it means that? No - the US uses it differently for a region of the body slightly less offensive. It's a bit like spunk, which is also fairly offensive in the UK, and fag, which despite having an offensive meaning in the US, is actually traditionally not offensive here, though the US meaning is known and s…
Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team. A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code. We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instance…
They are now evading the ban by rebranding the extension to "Fanny Theme": https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fanny.vs...