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

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Post by adamc »

dingnuts wrote: post #220
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #182

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TBH, no criticism on the developers, but the VS Code release notes haven't been interesting or relevant to how I used the editor for years. I think I checked out when they added a terminal client to it and it dominated the release notes for ages. AI features is one of the bigger innovations in editors in years, I fully understand the enthusiasm, especially given it can be linked to an earnings model. That said, befor…

This is why I use Emacs and it's why I didn't stop using Emacs when Sublime Text II, then Atom, then VSCode became popular. When Microsoft gets bored of VSCode or forces you to only do AI "vibe coding", Emacs will still be there. New version just came out. The release notes were full of good things.

Well, I used Emacs for 15-20 years. It has problems of its own -- mostly that it is effectively locked into an antediluvian view of how editors work, and that to use it effectively you end up maintaining large and complex configuration files.

I still use it for some things, but what we really need is a new, different edition of Emacs that has the same basic architecture but a more modern take on all the stuff that dates from the 1980s.

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

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Post by yesthis »

isidorn wrote: post #99
anakaine wrote: post #96

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You might need to chase down reuploads, too. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=t3dotgg....

Thanks. Our security researchers will review this today and we might take it down. We reached out to the new author and he does not have malicious intent, and agreed that we just take down the new extension if we see something is off.

> We reached out to the new author and he does not have malicious intent

Because he said so?

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

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Post by somenameforme »

iamkonstantin wrote: post #227
napolux wrote: post #177

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only in UK IIRC

More like “only in the US it isn’t” :)

Might be regional but fanny is definitely slang in the US as well, but very quaint/dated, meaning butt. Would generally be used in some sort of context like a grandma telling a kid, 'Get your fanny over here right this second!'

It would never be offensive or used with sexual connotation. It's kind of like the equivalent of wiener.

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

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Post by NetOpWibby »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #80
NetOpWibby wrote: post #72

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Happy Monokai customer here! I want to make themes using my own palette but nothing supports OKLCH and I don't wanna convert to HEX.

I haven't noticed any difference after tailwind started using oklch, doubt there's any.

I meant making themes for apps like Sublime Text, Zed, &c.

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

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Post by Thorrez »

skyyler wrote: post #257
Thorrez wrote: post #252

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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.

I use Youtube Premium, plus an ad blocker, plus an extension that removes shorts, plus an extension that skips sponsored segments. 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.

Does the ad blocker do anything on Youtube since you have premium? It'll of course do things on other sites, but I'm wondering if it has any impact on Youtube.

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

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Post by johnisgood »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #52
weinzierl wrote: post #49

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People pay for mere color schemes. https://draculatheme.com/

he's even selling a book lmao

And shirts, hoodies, hats, etc. Wild. :D

I am more curious as to why one would buy the theme and related merch.

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

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Post by david422 »

kelnos wrote: post #85
david422 wrote: post #22

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> 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. So I run a small game that has a couple thousand active users, and part of that is allowing users to chat via written text. The amount of vitriol some users spew just amazes me. If they acted like that in person, I expect they would get punched in the mouth quite often.…

> I also have a suspicion that some of these people are literally mentally ill, and online is basically where they live. It's certainly reasonable to expect that there are at least some mentally ill people in any decent-sized community, but the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[0] suggests -- and I agree -- that there are many people who just turn into complete assholes when they are anonymous or semi-anonymous, and ca…

> I don't know the demographics of your game, but this is especially true of teenagers. (But not exclusively true.)

It's just a card game, and I expect that the average age is actually quite a bit older. Which is one of the reasons why I am quite surprised at the rhetoric used, because I would have thought that "adults" wouldn't behave that way. I was very wrong.

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

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Post by flutas »

isidorn wrote: post #79

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…

So is there any proof of the malicious code?

The extension file is still available to download directly from MS.[0] (Which, why if you pull it from users are you still allowing downloads first of all.)

I downloaded the file, and unzipped it. On a cursory glance I see obfuscated code but zero "red flag" level code, has anyone seen the malicious code claimed?

[0]: !!!WARNING CLAIMED TO BE MALICIOUS!!! https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/pu...

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

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Post by mikeryan »

_cenw wrote: post #186
isidorn wrote: post #183

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Thank you. We will security audit this extension today and take action if needed.

Didn't the author evade a ban? Isn't that enough reason to take this down?

It's a new publisher https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/fanny

If you dig into the code on GitHub [1] , you can see it's the same author as the Material Theme. But I'm not sure how the marketplace folks are supposed to track that.

[1] https://github.com/fanny-theme/fanny-theme-support

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