It’s an extension so it can be deactivated

Article says:

[…] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So… maybe you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).

One thing I don’t like though, the article says:

then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So … you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.

For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren’t that good.

it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested

At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that’s me. I won’t judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).

It’s just a tool. Just because I don’t find it very useful, I shouldn’t tell others not to use it.

That’s one way to do it. The other is to leverage your network (if available to you) and ask people if they can refer you internally. I’ve had a lot more success with the second method.

How common is such a test in the US? I work in the US and so far, I’ve never been asked to perform a drug test, ever. Then again, maybe I’ve been lucky…

but is it really unlimited? At my last job, it was “unlimited with manager’s approval”, which basically means as long as the manager approves you’re good to go, no hard limits, but in practice managers wouldn’t approve more than 2-4 weeks (10-20 work days) a year, usually.

Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web … just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don’t use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that’s fine.

The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you’d most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.

Hasn’t been true for my past two jobs at least (US based), what I do outside of company premises / my own hardware and my own time is mine. They only own what was done on company’s dime. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but that’s not my experience so far, and I’m not sure if would be legal.

I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it’s the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

I’d really like to know as well, since I’d like to travel eventually.

As for the canadian woman with improper paperwork, I can tell you usually the worst that can happen (well, before now, that is) was that they’d take you to a separate room for a few hours to check and question you, and, if things eventually check out, they let you through, else, you’d be sent back, especially at a land crossing. You wouldn’t be detained for months, unless you committed some crime or had a warrant

The insurance will never pay more than the value of the car, so if the repair cost goes too high they’ll just declare it a total loss and pay the “fair market value” of the car. And yes, a total loss is more likely, but that doesn’t mean the insurance pays more, on the contrary, they use that to pay less.

OP specifically says they’re not looking for the wayback machine or any other archival site, they want something “still alive”

I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…

“We feel very isolated out there. We cannot ask for help, we cannot use our phones. But the captain is in charge, and the captain can use it. The only one that has access is the captain.”

So, boats already have wifi (and internet), in most cases, but fishermen are not allowed to use it. It’s not a technical or cost issue, it’s just… they don’t want the fishermen to communicate with the outside world

According to the research published by Hackmosphere, […]

I cannot find a link to the original research, anybody has the link to the original research?

Some of Apple’s struggles in AI have stemmed from deeply ingrained company values—for example, its militant stance on user privacy, which has made it difficult for the company to gain access to large quantities of data for training models and to verify whether AI features are working on devices.

So, Apple is behind in the AI race at least partly because they’re trying to do it more responsibly and more respecting of their users. I don’t really like Apple, but I guess I’m starting to like them more… a bit more. tiny bit. but still.

Nice to know I’m not the only one that dislikes autocorrect on phones, and autocomplete / autoindent (and also auto close parentheses and quotes for me) when coding

Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner…

Signal is better for privacy than whatsapp, and of course whatsapp is owned by meta and it leaks some … metadata to them (pun intended), but as for their end to end encryption, it actually uses the same exact scheme as signal, so even if you’re forced to use it, it’s still not that bad. Way better than telegram, for example (avoid telegram).

Using Signal or other secure messaging apps should be normalized, not reserved for people who are at risk, else the simple fact that you use it raises suspicions. Not sure if this argument is enough to convince your friends … maybe just tell them you like it better due to some feature it has?