well, well, well...what do we have here? another big tech trying to undermine competition? :D
Never happened before
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
#52lol, Microslop shooting themselves in the foot once again. At this point people will move to MacOS or Linux because so much damage to their brand can’t simply be ignored anymore.
> At this point people will move to I think most people just don't care about their computer. Most people just use whatever they are told to use at work.
Most people are just accustomed to pain because they don’t know it could be different
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#53Microsoft 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.
That's actually a good case for a LLM going through it and deciding: "nah, overblown" and "Oh, yeah, this one can close the account"
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but there is yet a one major OS that allows you to run whatever you see fit on your computer. If you are really disgusted by those moves, you have a time to switch. If enough people switch, then we can just forget about that garbage.
At this rate, I'd say we have less than a year before world governments simultaneously start rolling out laws making Linux illegal. Of course they won't call it "The Ban Linux Bill" but it will be back-channeled through some bullshit security or user verification requirement.
It's too late to close that Pandora's box. Linux is far too ubiquitous now. Even if it still lags behind Windows in the desktop computing space, it is already a non-trivial market share and growing quickly. And in many other computing spaces, Linux is king.
They can't realistically make Linux illegal. But they can put onerous requirements on popular Linux distributions - such as the age "verification" features they're currently trying to require[0]. Hopefully that proves to be ineffective.
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#55Modern computing does not make me feel good. Really hate this signing business controlled by the OS vendors. I get the added security benefits, but I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it.
> but I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it. Well corporations decide on that. I abandoned rubygems.org when they added the 100.000 download limit; past that point I was no longer able to remove old gem. Then came the new corporate laws for rubygems.org and mass-firing of about 8 open source developers who were involved with the ruby ecosystem. We simply need to accept that corporations controlling an ecosystem can l…
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Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#56lol, Microslop shooting themselves in the foot once again. At this point people will move to MacOS or Linux because so much damage to their brand can’t simply be ignored anymore.
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.
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#57I read elsewhere (here?) that it was the main developer of WireGuard who had their account suspended. If true, and based on what I read seems it is true, I am surprised this did not reach the "mainstream" press. All I can say is this is another proof of M/S abuse of their users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710149
Yeah, but you're not allowed to call it "abuse" because that's too "baity" according to the cabal.
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Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#59Would be nice if any outlet could actually check; did, or did Microsoft not inform these devs beforehand?!
Even if they did, it didn't work.
As the strongest OS advocate who has not ran Windows in a quarter century and is posting this over a Wireguard link; the is some double standards here. A corporate VPN vender who did not ensure they received all notifications from Microsoft regarding a certificate that effectively let's them root millions of computers would be a strong signal of concern.
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#60Microsoft 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.
That's actually a good case for a LLM going through it and deciding: "nah, overblown" and "Oh, yeah, this one can close the account"
No actually it's the worst case