That’s not how they’d implement it. They’d make it illegal to sell it advertise VPNs to the public. Then they’d impose fines on any American VPN companies that did it, and IP block and foreign VPN providers (their websites and apps) that didn’t.
Corporate VPNs wouldn’t be targeted. But you’re probably not going to watch porn through your work’s VPN right?
Corporate VPNs would be allowed presumably.
Yeah but that’s mostly network effects and free CI, which must cost them a ton of money. I’d be surprised if they’re even profitable just because of that. I mean it’s worth it for Microsoft clearly, but if they ever decide it isn’t and turn the screws, there are at least two good alternatives - Gitlab and Codeberg.
I would also jump ship immediately if there was a platform that properly handled stacked PRs. I literally just want to be able to say “this PR includes this other PR - don’t show that one”. Is that too much to ask?
I support the idea but is it really that important? It’s just a name. Call it ECMAScript if you’re worried. JavaScript if you aren’t.
Windows 11 IoT LTSC is very good. I don’t know about the normal consumer version.
Don’t be naive and think they can’t block this stuff because of encryption. They just go after the business entities. Eventually you’ll only be left with super sketchy options that they’ll try to block by IP.
They probably won’t totally succeed, but they can make things far shitter than they are.
Not exactly. It is pretty similar though, true.
Yeah it’s obviously an improvement but I guess you can’t really sell a distro on “it has a more logical filesystem layout which may cause some issues, and it’s super super niche which will definitely cause some issues”.
Probably a lost cause. I imagine Flatpak will actually work properly before the Unix filesystem hierarchy is made sane.
I would be fairly surprised if they actually did this for tracking purposes. This sounds like nonsense to me. They already have plenty of information about you and they literally sent the notification.
Ha-Ha -exactly
The majority of children in the 6–12 age group are highly unlikely to download, configure, or subscribe to VPNs without adult help.
The naivety! It’s like 5 clicks to download and use Proton VPN. You don’t even need to register!
Even if it were more difficult, children have friends. They talk to each other.
Also grouping 6 and 12 year olds together is an interesting choice. Sure, a 6 year old is unlikely to do this, but why would a 6 year old even try?
Yeah it was inspired by Powershell. But it also has syntax that isn’t completely awful.
Yeah but often their trick is to push through the idea. It’s easier if people are just like “eh fine, I can just lie”.
Then later they say “it turns out lots of people have been lying! Lying is bad, so we need to stop them.” - then they don’t need to debate the idea of age verification because everyone has “agreed” to it already. They only need to argue that people must be honest, which is way easier.
Not currently, but in theory that is better, true.
No. Closest is probably Zed but it’s still way way off from being a serious VSCode competitor. For example it has no settings GUI at all; just a JSON file. It can’t edit large files. Font rendering is still hit and miss.
Ask again in 5 years…
How “production” are we talking? Pretty bad idea if it’s an important work server. “Sorry boss, nobody could connect today because VSCode’s mojam.service hit one of its many many 100% CPU bugs”.
I think in theory there’s no reason it isn’t technically possible, but I doubt it’s set up to allow it because that’s a pretty odd thing to want to do.
Edit: oh you want to access it via Android. That makes vaguely more sense.
Well not nothing. Android apps are quite easy to reverse engineer so there would be a high risk of them getting caught which would be quite damaging for WhatsApp’s brand.
I wouldn’t say it’s a lot, but it isn’t nothing.
There is certainly nothing technical stopping them from doing it, but that’s true of Signal too.
Bad code will be unreadable in any language of course.
Yeah I’m talking about good code, or at least not bad code. Let’s not “no true Scotsman” this.
Even for good code you don’t need syntax highlighting to easily see which identifiers are function names and which are their parameters in Rust.
Rust. It has all the good bits of functional programming but basically none of the bad bits.
Good bits:
Bad bits:
Yeah I’ve heard it’s really annoying to use the web from VPS IPs though because Cloudflare etc. will block you. Dunno how true that is but it sounds plausible.