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Calling out leople who trust software from ByteDance, and not calling out people who trust software by Microsoft (i.e. VSCode) is a bit hypocritic. Both are fac

Calling out leople who trust software from ByteDance, and not calling out people who trust software by Microsoft (i.e. VSCode) is a bit hypocritic. Both are faceless corps that produce unethical software.

msgodel 1y ago
Don't forget that the remote editing feature in VSCode has you install non-free binaries on the remote machines. It's not like netdir where it just wraps openssh. I'm always surprised when corporate IT departments allow that given what's not allowed these days.
- pests 1y ago
  Corporate IT usually has a relationship and trusts Microsoft already. Not like it’s a small I trusted company.
- cozzyd 1y ago
  And responsible for a huge amount of disk usage on our experiments shared machines (due to a bunch of students using vscode, with each user having their own copies of magic binaries). I wonder if there's an easy way to block it...
- eddythompson80 1y ago
  No? The non-free binary is the client not the server. There are free implementations of the client for Code OSS. The server installed on the remote machine is part of vscode itself called the REH (remote extension host). It’s the core of the editor running in headless mode on the server. Here is an example open source implementation of the non-free binary client (it’s a 4 files that call various editor APIs) https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss This is REH entry (the binary installed on the remote machine) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/node https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/...
wewtyflakes 1y ago
Microsoft was not the subject of the post.
- hollowonepl 1y ago
  point is, both extensively use telemetry in vscode. I think only Codium is the build that tried to turn all that off. Not sure how successfully tho.
  - wewtyflakes 1y ago
    The point of the point was that it was highlighting a contrast with how VSCode normally works. If they were the same, this would not be a post about Bytedance, but a post about Microsoft.
Analemma_ 1y ago
Microsoft's telemetry policies for VSCode aren't great, but there's a big difference between "defaulting to opt-in" and "sending even more data when the user turns telemetry off". Your post is a stupid and incorrect bit of whataboutism.
x3n0ph3n3 1y ago
VSCode is garbage software from a garbage company, too.

msgodel 1y ago

Don't forget that the remote editing feature in VSCode has you install non-free binaries on the remote machines. It's not like netdir where it just wraps openssh. I'm always surprised when corporate IT departments allow that given what's not allowed these days.

pests 1y ago
Corporate IT usually has a relationship and trusts Microsoft already. Not like it’s a small I trusted company.
cozzyd 1y ago
And responsible for a huge amount of disk usage on our experiments shared machines (due to a bunch of students using vscode, with each user having their own copies of magic binaries). I wonder if there's an easy way to block it...
eddythompson80 1y ago
No? The non-free binary is the client not the server. There are free implementations of the client for Code OSS. The server installed on the remote machine is part of vscode itself called the REH (remote extension host). It’s the core of the editor running in headless mode on the server. Here is an example open source implementation of the non-free binary client (it’s a 4 files that call various editor APIs) https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss This is REH entry (the binary installed on the remote machine) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/node https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/...

wewtyflakes 1y ago

Microsoft was not the subject of the post.

hollowonepl 1y ago
point is, both extensively use telemetry in vscode. I think only Codium is the build that tried to turn all that off. Not sure how successfully tho.
- wewtyflakes 1y ago
  The point of the point was that it was highlighting a contrast with how VSCode normally works. If they were the same, this would not be a post about Bytedance, but a post about Microsoft.

Analemma_ 1y ago

Microsoft's telemetry policies for VSCode aren't great, but there's a big difference between "defaulting to opt-in" and "sending even more data when the user turns telemetry off". Your post is a stupid and incorrect bit of whataboutism.

x3n0ph3n3 1y ago

VSCode is garbage software from a garbage company, too.