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by siproprio 5y ago
Unfortunately, if they exist, those optimizations are not open source.
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by siproprio 5y ago
They don't need any promotion. They'll just achieve domination through bundling edge with windows and making it impossible to switch. I used to have a more positive version of microsoft up until the point they started flexing thei
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by siproprio 5y ago
Let me correct you on one thing: > VSCode: Approachability, Integration, Maintainability, Progressiveness, Velocity. VSCode: Microsoft, Approachability, ~Integration~, ~Maintainability~, ~Progressiveness~, ~Velocity~.
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by siproprio 5y ago
> It's the same thing without telemetry It's not. The vscode team purposefully breaks services and plugins that microsoft considers "strategic".
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by siproprio 5y ago
> when you edit files with the GitHub Copilot extension/plugin enabled, file content snippets, suggestions, and any modifications to suggestions will be shared with GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI You don't even need to have a gi
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by siproprio 5y ago
Microsoft purposefully broke Vscodium.
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by siproprio 5y ago
Have they removed github's spying capabilities yet? Last time I looked at this, vscode was leaking private data that should not be collected and processed inadvertently.
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by siproprio 5y ago
Relying on Microsoft software for collaboration has created some of the worst engineering disasters and waste of resources I've ever seen. The company's motto seems to be that every customer is unique, and has different needs - me
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by siproprio 5y ago
at apple there are no toggles and switches to worry about: https://www.apple.com/privacy/
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by siproprio 5y ago
Wait, are they really resetting the browser on forced automatic updates? With every update, users need to get more paranoid about Microsoft's software because they're unintentionally incompetent about ethical standards... The othe
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by siproprio 5y ago
I always included Microsoft in FAANG
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by siproprio 5y ago
not for FAANG, but yeah, it's a pretty big engineering conglomerate
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by siproprio 5y ago
> god the ones I work with just struggle so much while idiot me click 3 buttons in an IDE and move on. Like I said in the other thread about vscode: If you assume whatever's been done here's been done wrong it saves the company
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by siproprio 5y ago
The vscode team needs to start treating msft as a threat as well
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by siproprio 5y ago
"strategic product strategy businesses feature decision" as literally said by their PM.
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by siproprio 5y ago
"and look, your competitors purchased this and they're using it (they weren't), so you need it too for compatibility reasons"
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by siproprio 5y ago
"we sell you 4 different communications and productivity enhancement software products, none of those are really any good but guess what, we managed to upsell your organization into purchasing this crap "
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by siproprio 5y ago
I've worked on a place where somehow Teams managed to f@ck double clicking on an excel spreadsheet. Across organizations. On a sensitive critical infrastructure planning document.
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by siproprio 5y ago
Sorry, I take it back, but I don't have access to the delete button.
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by siproprio 5y ago
Like what I heard from a colleague: "If I've been called here, I can safely assume whatever's been done's been done wrong, otherwise I would not've been called here, cause I'm definitely not the cheapest option
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by siproprio 5y ago
No, but they're selling remote wipe to large enterprise customers on worker's device's, spying on workers privacy and selling that info to management, adding DRM to excel spreadsheets - but they just can't figure out how
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by siproprio 5y ago
"bad at design": Either their engineers are incompetent, and accidentally chose the evil thing, or they intentionally planned it to happen this way.
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by siproprio 5y ago
They were 'attempting' to launder their image.
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by siproprio 5y ago
> There's no coherent threat model here. My threat model is Microsoft selling bogus "productivity enhancement" features to customers, pushing duplicated features, collecting data on costumers to acquire business sensitive
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by siproprio 5y ago
Yes. Those get harder to find every day unless you know exactly where to look. I also wouldn't put it past them retroactively patching builds to cover them up.
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by siproprio 5y ago
Lot's of extensions - the ones that Microsoft decided were 'strategic' - purposefuly stops working magically when you're using the "open" vscodium version.
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by siproprio 5y ago
Then they'll use your code to train an AI to replace you.
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by siproprio 5y ago
So, recapping vs code: * They implemented proprietary sync protocols * They obfuscate how 'settings' are saved - no, the settings.json is not what the editor uses and they hide stuff in the internal sqlite db they use * Capping op
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by siproprio 5y ago
"Projects" are "something that advances someone's career"? I thought projects were "something which our client actually paid for and we're contractually obligated to fullfil"
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by siproprio 5y ago
It's the usual Microsoft software quality.

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