bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Open tech, be afraid. Be very afraid. Microsoft owns both Visual Studio Code “VSCode” and MS-GitHub, two intertwined and utterly proprietary product-service ecosystems with a bit of open-source in their core to lure us in. Because they love open source? Yeah, no.

Soon after leaving GitPod whose technology links the two, Geoffrey Hunt last year explained their strategy and what it’s doing to our open tech world, in a great and “harrowing” article, “Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture” https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

“The future of software development tooling that is being built is closed as ****, and people seem to be okay with it…”

This is why MS-GitHub is not our friend.

This is why falling for their trick, disguising MS-VSCode as a neat “free” editor, will come back and haunt and hurt us.

Vendor lock-in double-whammy. Using open source as “a financial weapon”.

“… the biggest challenge for Gitpod, GitLab, Datacoves, OpenBB, Foam, et al lies ahead - developing open language tooling for each community where Microsoft has forked the communities over to proprietary language servers…”

If we have a grain of public spirit, if we are motivated at all by the Freedom that’s supposed to be afforded by Free-Libre Open-Source Software, we must #GiveUpGithub, we must recognise the trap, we must choose truly open #FreedomTech.

See also my FOSS Apps Live in FOSS Forges .

I agree. We can never go back to the pre covid world view.

It's so very weird having to pretend to care about some "career", really.

No I don't really care about my worksona roleplay and would dispense with it entirely if it wasn't needed to afford rent and the stuff I want (including food not to starve and HDDs to hoard more data).

There's basically no way within the current economic system to get a job that is really beneficial to anyone anyway. The most I can hope for is to not be literally paid to make things actively worse.

Video games in all genres other than FPS and racing would've been better served staying 2d until 3d hardware was 3 or 5 generations further than when they actually shifted.

Lol wow ok

I'm not used to core xy

Also I need to put this on something a bit more stable.

https://spinningrat.online/

"Apart from all the pride/trans stuff, my daughter has just been taught that she has white privilege and was asked who she's attracted to. She's 11 and is so confused and upset by all this shit. I'm effing furious "

Why are they teaching this to 11 year olds?

#Socialism

https://m.primal.net/HQOD.mp4

At my funeral I want people to watch the first 15 minutes of lecture 6.001 subbed in french.
https://tube.raccoon.quest/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CABEA24090&index=0

Australia is putting its counterpart to Chelsea Manning on trial for leaking secret information about Australian soldiers' covered-up war crimes in Afghanistan: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/13/whistleblower-david-mcbride-court-trial-alleged-australia-war-crimes-defence-leaks