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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because the hate is based on their shitty OS. They did a fairly good job with VSCode. Our hate isn't blind.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (4 children)

VScode is the epitome of the EEE strategy. The core product is open-source, but it's filled to the brim with tracking and the official extensions have DRM. Yes, there's DRM on your python LSP.

Anyone who gives a shit should look for alternatives right away. The problem is just that there aren't any that are as easy to set up.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think, I should switch to Codium for personal projects. Let's hope there is a binary package on Gentoo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you probably already have electron compiled, no?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No, I don't. I saw it on Flathub; will install it from there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Shouldn't using VSCodium solve the telemetry problem?

Aren't there FOSS linters which work for VSCodium?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Make sure that the addons can only be used by VScode. There's vscodium for now, but microsoft could easily shut that down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank god I do not use python.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not hate in my case, but I don't like ms and it's because of the shit they have done in 90s and 2000s. Their current support of linux is not something I trust.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My baby actually. Look, MS is a powerful company and they're making a lot of desperate strategic purchases as their main business corrodes. Their brand is more based on gaming. Their infrastructure? The cloud and github. They've got the butter and they're looking for bread to slap it across.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have a deep seated fear for the future of GitHub in the long run. Seems too ripe for eventual enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, this seems inevitable. But on the other hand, Github is really unique in the business and labor market too.

  1. Huge and important companies depend on it for hosting code.
  2. These same companies depend on open source projects.
  3. These same companies depend on programmers posting to their Github to share examples of their skills with the world, being potential employees.

Now if you can enshittify Github in a way that doesn't fuck with how important people use it too much, it will be after changes to how the tech hiring environment works - worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently in OP's case it is.