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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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Every time piracy or Youtube ads come up, HNers grandstand on how they don't even pay a dime to the content creators making the hundreds of hours of videos they watch. GGs if you want a buck for the VSCode theme you made.
I proudly block ads while giving directly to the people that make the stuff I like. I know I'm in the minority, but I block ads because of memetic hygiene. I don't want to deprive artists but I'm not sitting through adslop for a podcaster's sake.
Disclosure: I work at Google.
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Should be added that the malicious part is often done by a third party that takes over an open source project when the original developer doesn't have the time/energy/money to maintain their open source/free work. Many Chrome extensions end up being sold for thousands or just hundreds of dollars because there's no money in them and the dev isn't all that interested. Society as a whole could easily avoid this by fundi…
Every time piracy or Youtube ads come up, HNers grandstand on how they don't even pay a dime to the content creators making the hundreds of hours of videos they watch. GGs if you want a buck for the VSCode theme you made.
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> We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months. I guess Copilot functionality trumps "Security above all else" now. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...
Yeah, the vscode release notes used to be lists of interesting new things and novel improvements. Now they are all “copilot” “features”.
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There's nothing wrong with building proprietary software of a couple of thousand lines of code, including themes. And people should be able to ask for money in exchange for their work. What's wrong is the bait and switch, as these projects end up being popular because of their FOSS nature.
He had raised about $7.6k total funding using opencollective. https://opencollective.com/material-theme that's pretty good, especially for a vscode theme.
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I proudly block ads while giving directly to the people that make the stuff I like. I know I'm in the minority, but I block ads because of memetic hygiene. I don't want to deprive artists but I'm not sitting through adslop for a podcaster's sake.
With Youtube at least, you can buy Youtube premium, so you don't have to sit through Youtube ads without needing an ad blocker (though you'll still have to sit through any ads the Youtuber directly adds into the video itself). Disclosure: I work at Google.
Soon, I'm going to need an extension that removes the AI stuff I don't want and didn't ask for.
Using youtube in 2025 is exhausting.
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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…
Maintaining a theme ~a decade after its creation is minimal effort. You can check the commit history yourself and see it's a one line change once in a while among auto dependency bumps thanks to a >10k line package-lock.json, at least half of which is unrelated to core functionality as demonstrated by t3dotgg. It's also funny to see a "supposed software engineer" shit on other's tools and post veiled personal attacks…
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It's a common theme: - build an open-source thing - wait till thousands or millions of people are using it - change the license and close down the source - implement malicious code - push an update - profit! you now have your malware running on millions of systems
yup, many mobile app developers do this (inject any SDK that'd pay them) too. Doesn't need to be open source, though
but no need to single them out.
Plenty of bait and switch later free apps turned freemium, or malicious, out there.