vscodium isn’t immune to the problem tbh - put it behind a gating proxy (mitmproxy or something is probably easiest) and watch just how chatty it still is (for plugin mechanism etc)

the entire design of how the vscode ecocystem is put together is in service of their telemetry aims, imo. they may argue it’s “for safety” or whatever, but it’s just control and surveillance. alternative options that don’t do this shit exist and operate just fine

the posting account for that comment looks like such a hollow shell… real from-outta-left-field shit

oh sure, I didn’t mean to imply that good isn’t happening, more observing on how far and popular the whackjobs have managed to come

why’s that name familiar? calibre?

I’ve been rewatching ReGenesis and you can sorta see a similar background to it (it being of the same vintage): bio attacks are the Big Bad, there’s actual mobilisation against viral spread, etc

kinda whiplash just how fucking rapidly the antivaxxer movement (and general anti-science) managed to spread and become popular in the years hence (and specifically circa the ~2016 mark)

and the other wild part is now this whole mess is only the one part mirroring it, there’s a whole other debt market thing that’s also replaying CDOs too. this one is more likely to be the fuse tho

do they know that doing this won’t solve their NYSE link latency problem?

(and that I even had to type that second bit is a big bit of my gripe with python in the last decade)

yeah the dep resolution and instance management being snappy as hell are big reasons why people went for uv, but I suspect this will now get reevaluated (it should’ve been earlier)

pdm is what you want afaik btw, poetry is outclassed for a while now

this is a good post and some of y’all may enjoy it too: https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter

watching the saltman interview (in this frame) is…so much worse

I was planning to get drunkwatch it but I haven’t really had the headspace to get that mad this week

it’s amazing what knowing even a lick of history can do, hey?

……snrk

I’ve heard of it, including in some outlets that (at the distance I am to it) seemed to pass the sniff test

but I’ve also seen it kick around TPOT

so I’d definitely want to seek out the advice of an expert if I cared about it

found a paper that may be of interest and review interest to some here

linked via this toot that hit my feed

Missed this when it was first going around

Leave it to fucking zuckco to figure out the worst way to make They Live happen

seems unlikely, see here for reference

well would you look at that, some consequences

“posting from the slop hole” is probably the best description possible for this, brb stealing