Yes, maybe reach out to Michiel Leenaars from the NLNet foundation. But IIRC NLNet mostly funds shorter development tracks, not ongoing upkeep/maintenance.
The reason I don't use Github is Microsoft's hatred stance on open source.
Anyone remember Microsoft calling Linux a "cancer"? Or Microsoft threatening open source developers for violating 200 patents? Or their official stand where they whould threaten and fear Linux devs? The secretly funded lawsuits against Linux? They even threatened lawsuits at companies for just using Linux.
VSCode itself was a malicious move by Microsoft to capitalize on Atom's success, followed by the acquisition of Github and the beheading of Atom.
VSCode is "open source" with a walled garden of a marketplace. A quick look at how Microsoft is trying to kill competitors like Cursor (within the last week) by squeezing them out of the walled garden is... telling.
These moves by Microsoft are not made in the spirit of open source. It's in the spirit of EEE.
Big corporations are not monoliths, despite them having an overall singular personality. I believe that vscode was a sincere attempt, at least in the beginning. While based on electron which was originally developed for Atom, vscode was always much more performant than atom.
But when it did gain a lot of developer attention, MS's true nature took hold and gradually converted it into the walled garden we see today. It was more subtle in the beginning - a few useful extensions were proprietary and wouldn't work on non-MS builds of vscode for some unspecified reason. It was like a gentle nudge to the developers to migrate to their opaque proprietary builds. Of course, we have seen that before, haven't we?
As an aside, if you like vscode but hate the manipulation, you should give the Eclipse Theia editor [1] a try. It's an almost complete reimplementation of vscode and is compatible with the extensions from OpenVSX. I believe that they have fairer alternatives for collaborative editing, etc. At least, they will spare you the manipulation.
This is my first substack post. It's about the internals of Cursor and how it makes a tradeoff between token usage and code sent to the LLM. Feedback is welcome.
I did using their website form. It needs to be clear from the complaint that Google is violating fair market principles. They also like details about what exactly is happening and who is affected. That was why they called me after I filed the complaint.
I would love to chip in and see if we can get this ball rolling, usually I feel like I'm the only person who cares or files AP/ACM/... complaints and then it's too small beans for them to care. I'd not submit the literal same thing again, but could you share what wording you've used? Specifically in this case I'd also not be sure whether this blocking of Graphene etc. is abuse of market power when there is another option on the market (Apple) and so it's not a monopoly
There's no contact info in your profile so I couldn't reach you. If you don't want to share it here, you could use the email address in my profile
Good that you mention it. I will add contact details.
It has been a while so I don't remember the exact wording. I wouldn't use the same wording since it is not a petition and doesn't add value. They want to research if it is an unfair practice. In my opinion banking and wireless payments is a common good. Having two companies, who only approve software of partners, most of them including unremovable spyware, is limiting on access to banking and privacy (although privacy is another department). I mentioned security since that is Google's argument for the block even though GrapheneOS is more secure than approved builds. I gave the number of GrapheneOS users to make clear it doesn't affect only a few individuals. I think LineageOS users might also be affected?
It shouldn't work like a petition, but these organisations do treat it as such unless something is very obviously a major violation. Even with numbers of Graphene users, what part of that is Dutch? What part of that wants to use Google Pay? What part makes use of a workaround? Multiple reports of problems does give some information/signal that this is worth their time
But yes, as said I'd not use the same wording because it shouldn't just be a copy-paste, that's also wasting their time. I could refer to what was already submitted so they can more easily bundle them, but I understand you don't have it anymore so np. Thanks for mentioning you've submitted this in the first place and the additional info, that does motivate me to continue also submitting things and to know better what makes sense to submit :)
The privacy shield was 'shot down' because it would allow the US unprecedented access to personal data of EU civilians (including unlimited surveillance).
GDPR is not that bad. It has downsides but it is not overly complex.
Companies (including cloud services) have to comply if they want to have business in Europe.
Fines by EU:
Meta: 1.5 billion
Amazon: 750 million
TikTok: 350 million
Clearview: 30 million
Apple: 1.5 billion
That's just a perspective from reality, where people are doing business rather than contriving impractical regulations out of thin air .
> GDPR is not that bad. It has downsides but it is not overly complex.
It might seem simple to consumers or politicians who claim they could implement it in a day, but it is highly complex once you have to implement it as a small or medium-sized business.
> Companies (including cloud services) have to comply if they want to have business in Europe
Large corporations - i.e. the supposed target of that regulation - scoff at GDPR. They have legal departments and the funds necessary to deal with GDPR however they see fit, while small and medium-sized business bear the brunt.
My take on the subject has shifted the last months. I had issues with AI's output, the mistakes, hallucinations.
Now I use AI to go asap to 70% of my code. The last 30% is a manual, low AI, approach where I fix the hallucinations, file structure and do the stuff AI is failing me at.
I use Claude Chat, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Windsurf (switching between those all the time)
The main program is hosted on Azure Web Apps, the search is Azure AI Search,
we use AutoGen for the agents, and we use OpenAI for the generation. Azure has a lot of tools that support AI and search, so we use those too.
