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Codespaces allows you to develop in the cloud instead of locally. Developers can contribute from anywhere, on any machine, including tablets or Chromebooks, and
by scriptsmith 6y ago
Codespaces allows you to develop in the cloud instead of locally. Developers can contribute from anywhere, on any machine, including tablets or Chromebooks, and there is no need to maintain local copies of intellectual property.
That last part is what concerns me about these products. Eventually we may have to justify using a local dev environment, just as some developers currently have to justify using a laptop, as it's more 'risky' for the employer.
- Garbage 6y agoThe most risky part is when Github decides to delete your account or repository, you would loose all of your intellectual property, because it was all on the cloud.
- PradeetPatel 6y agoBut would they do it without a good reason? That sounds like a lawsuit in the making.
- chillfox 6y agoTheir reasoning hardly matters to the victim. But I don’t think they would outright delete data. Microsoft just appears more trustworthy in that area.
- choeger 6y agoOf course they will. Cancel culture is a thing, you know.
- hoseja 6y agoWhat if you name a branch in your repo "master"?
- stnmtn 6y agoYeah man I'm sure that they are going to ban you for this. For sure, that's definitely how the world works right now Please stop imagining things you are making up things in your mind just so you can get mad at them
- hoseja 6y agoI really don't know, the idpol slope seems more and more slippery every day.
- brodock 6y agoPeople in countries under US sanction lost access to their private repos recently: https://www.techworm.net/2019/07/github-developer-us-sanction-country.html https://www.techworm.net/2019/07/github-developer-us-sanctio...
- qz2 6y agoThe whole situation is a joke really when it comes to stuff like this. Everyone crows due diligence and removing administrative access and putting in security controls everywhere, not using own hardware, having locked down this that and everything, centralising control and environmental access. It adds a lot of friction but realistically ignores the fact that some of the core libraries and packages our products depend upon are probably put together by someone toking on a bong at 2AM in an insecure rural outback shack on a laptop riddled with porn and warez that was bought from ebay.
- chillfox 6y agoIt definitely feels like the corporate leaders making decisions about risks don’t actually understand what the majority of risks are, the likelihood of them and the potential impact. So they make decisions based entirely on the few risks they do understand while completely disregarding the ones they don’t.