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I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently

I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png

immigrantsheep 6y ago
Funnily enough the community/free version works without issues. That really sucks if you're a paying customer.
- takeda 6y ago
  not that surprising, since it probably doesn't have to phone home.
  - bleepblorp 6y ago
    It does, but seemingly not as frequently. The community version seems to phone home every few months. Now, the pirated version never phones home and always works even when MS decides to steal your products back.
- orloffm 6y ago
  Community needs to re-update your license every 30 days, so it would also stop working for someone who had that period ending during the outage.
fendy3002 6y ago
Woah that must be suck! Online license validation can backfire like drm did: you cannot use offline feature without online service available.
- takeda 6y ago
  isn't it pretty much the same thing?
- deleted 6y ago
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partiallypro 6y ago
That's strange, I assume it doesn't work when you aren't connected to the internet either?
- OkGoDoIt 6y ago
  It revalidates the license every 30 days, and I haven’t used it in a few days. Apparently I just got unlucky with my timing.
koyote 6y ago
That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Just yesterday I had a similar issue with Resharper, where our local licence server was down for the day. Luckily I was able to enable a 30-day trial. (and I guess Resharper isn't that mandatory to get work done)
- simonblack 6y ago
  I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Me too. After a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago, I instituted my own File Server that's accessible via the Internet. All of my data is 'safe at home' with daily backups.
  - drevil-v2 6y ago
    How do you secure it from unwanted access? I have been wanting to do something similar but I am unsure of the best practices
    - tiagobraw 6y ago
      build a home vpn with self signed certificates
    - Jedd 6y ago
      Either sftp/ssh with key-only logins (ie. no passwords), or Syncthing (depending on the volume of data, rate of changes, speed and costs of your network transits) I now keep my primary 'work' and 'private' collections (10-30g each) and a large shared set (350g) synced across desktop & laptop, and also 3 off-site archive servers, using Syncthing. This includes a literal satellite connection for one site. [0] https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
    - microtherion 6y ago
      Not sure if it's a "best practice", but you can get a fairly Dropbox'ish experience by running a nextcloud/owncloud instance. It even comes in docker containers, so setup is quite simple.
william_T 6y ago
yup its authentication. So 365 is one of many top level MS services not accepting new sessions.
taf2 6y ago
Question does the compiler at the cli also phone home or is it just the IDE?
- OkGoDoIt 6y ago
  The compiler and the .net platform in general are all accessible without a paid license or internet connection, and actually there’s a free edition of visual studio you can use without a paid license as well. But downloading and installing a fresh copy of Visual Studio Community Edition would take a while and I don’t feel like dealing with that hassle right now. I assume this will be fixed by tomorrow.
scott31 6y ago
You (or your employer) knowingly chosen a proprietary and hostile development platform and now you are reaping the benefits. I am sorry for you, not for you inability to work, but for your incorrect choices.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't post flamewar comments or cross into personal attack. We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

immigrantsheep 6y ago

Funnily enough the community/free version works without issues. That really sucks if you're a paying customer.

takeda 6y ago
not that surprising, since it probably doesn't have to phone home.
- bleepblorp 6y ago
  It does, but seemingly not as frequently. The community version seems to phone home every few months. Now, the pirated version never phones home and always works even when MS decides to steal your products back.
orloffm 6y ago
Community needs to re-update your license every 30 days, so it would also stop working for someone who had that period ending during the outage.

fendy3002 6y ago

Woah that must be suck! Online license validation can backfire like drm did: you cannot use offline feature without online service available.

takeda 6y ago
isn't it pretty much the same thing?
deleted 6y ago
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partiallypro 6y ago

That's strange, I assume it doesn't work when you aren't connected to the internet either?

OkGoDoIt 6y ago
It revalidates the license every 30 days, and I haven’t used it in a few days. Apparently I just got unlucky with my timing.

koyote 6y ago

That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Just yesterday I had a similar issue with Resharper, where our local licence server was down for the day. Luckily I was able to enable a 30-day trial. (and I guess Resharper isn't that mandatory to get work done)

simonblack 6y ago
I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Me too. After a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago, I instituted my own File Server that's accessible via the Internet. All of my data is 'safe at home' with daily backups.
- drevil-v2 6y ago
  How do you secure it from unwanted access? I have been wanting to do something similar but I am unsure of the best practices
  - tiagobraw 6y ago
    build a home vpn with self signed certificates
  - Jedd 6y ago
    Either sftp/ssh with key-only logins (ie. no passwords), or Syncthing (depending on the volume of data, rate of changes, speed and costs of your network transits) I now keep my primary 'work' and 'private' collections (10-30g each) and a large shared set (350g) synced across desktop & laptop, and also 3 off-site archive servers, using Syncthing. This includes a literal satellite connection for one site. [0] https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
  - microtherion 6y ago
    Not sure if it's a "best practice", but you can get a fairly Dropbox'ish experience by running a nextcloud/owncloud instance. It even comes in docker containers, so setup is quite simple.

william_T 6y ago

yup its authentication. So 365 is one of many top level MS services not accepting new sessions.

taf2 6y ago

Question does the compiler at the cli also phone home or is it just the IDE?

OkGoDoIt 6y ago
The compiler and the .net platform in general are all accessible without a paid license or internet connection, and actually there’s a free edition of visual studio you can use without a paid license as well. But downloading and installing a fresh copy of Visual Studio Community Edition would take a while and I don’t feel like dealing with that hassle right now. I assume this will be fixed by tomorrow.

scott31 6y ago

You (or your employer) knowingly chosen a proprietary and hostile development platform and now you are reaping the benefits. I am sorry for you, not for you inability to work, but for your incorrect choices.

dang 6y ago
Please don't post flamewar comments or cross into personal attack. We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html