people that say things like this are exhausting. exhausting. You make it so very easy to classify you straight into the "looney" bin. People said that WSL was EEE for Linux. when that didn't happen, people said that WSL gaining GPU support was EEE. When that didn't happen, people said that WSLg was EEE for Linux. People said that Powershell was EEE for Windows.
None of these happened. none of them even appear to have happened, and none of them appear to have even been planned. It's all a hallucination by people that talk like this. It's all imaginary. Show me any evidence of anything like this. ANY AT ALL. Not a hunch, not something that could be interpreted that way, show me the very clear and repeatable steps that Microsoft used in the 90s to EEE something in anything they're doing today.
They're too busy copiloting everything and arguing with each other to do this. Show me Microsoft Git with extra features over the open source version. Show me Microsoft Linux with extra features over the open source version. Show me Microsoft ANYTHING with extra features over the open source version they copied, and show me the doors slowly closing behind me. You can't. Because it isn't happening.
git repos can't be locked up in the way you're describing. github is a wrapper around git. it would take an enormous amount of work for microsoft to change this fundamental decision in the design of github. GitHub is a git server, over both HTTP and SSH. These are core decisions of the software that everything else sits on top of. If pulling git repos over HTTP or SSH ever stops being supported, so many things are going to stop being supported, that it just won't be useful at all after that point.
the gh cli makes api calls, that's all. it just makes api calls easier. it exposes a lot of api calls as friendly commands. it's not something that most of github users are even aware of, much less use. gh is not going to lock someone into a github "ecosystem" A) because such a thing doesn't exist and B) again, most people don't use it.
Microsoft is far more likely to kill GitHub because of people with MBAs (aka "morons") who somehow call the shots in business these days. They are not going to pilot into the ground by EEE. They are going to pilot it into the ground because they don't know what they're doing, and they don't know what users want or what they like. That will be the fate of GitHub; incompetence will kill it, not cold, calculating, nefarious competence.
I think the down-votes on this comment are too bad. It's legitimately funny to write a muli-paragraph rant in high dudgeon calling other people "exhausting".
The comment’s size is apparent before reading a single word, so you can avoid it if it is too large. “EEE” comments are short and exhausting and there is no warning visible.
it means they can see all the telemetry from a single machine, but the identity of the machine is not tied to any human identity or github account. each machine appears to get its own UUID and that's how they "identify" machines.
> How would you block a random device on IPv6 that's generating its own IP?
If you’re referring to your TV presenting itself as a random device with a random address, you give it the WiFi info to an AP that you control which has no network connectivity at all, via vlan separation, routing rules, or just by the physical AP not being connected to any other network.
I have UniFi stuff and I created another AP on those which can’t talk to anything, and is unencrypted, and if my tv wants to use an insecure WiFi network it can try to use that one and fail because there’s no internet connectivity. I should just remove the WiFi module or antenna.
I have an open WiFi network provisioned which can’t reach the internet or even outside its own VLAN. Some tvs will automatically connect to open APs and use them, so I made my own which has the strongest signal of any of them.
Otherwise, TVs in my house do not get the WiFi SSID or password. I also don’t plug in Ethernet unless I need to do a firmware update, which I did one time.
AppleTV connected and am happy.
If TVs won’t come in dumb form, I’ll separate them from their remote brains and make them dumb.
Software has incredible inertia compared to hardware.
It is effectively trivial to buy millions of dollars of hardware to upgrade your stuff when compared with paying for existing software to be rewritten for a new platform.
Funnily enough I worked at a company with a codebase written in the 1980s - no idea what it originally ran on but someone decided in the mid 2000s to update it to run on modern hardware. Unfortunately they chose Itanium... so 20 years later they're paying lots of money for Itanium hardware.
You are wrong. You may think that they aren’t related because you write software without thinking about computer science, but that says more about you and modern software development seat-filling than it does anything else.
One can’t write anything efficient without comp-sci being forefront in your mind the entire time you are writing. Which explains exactly why everything is so slow today.
If you’re not thinking about what is computable, what is not computable, and what is easily computable as you think about the problems you are trying to solve, you are a professional novice.
I studied computer science at one of the top colleges. It's true there's a lot of overlap between the two. But they are still very different fields.
You definitely don't need to study computer science just to avoid making common performance issues and in fact just studying computer science doesn't mean that you aren't going to introduce things like N+1 query issues, that's sort of thing comes from experience more than anything.
Likewise, just studying computer science does not mean that you are going to be well suited for software development in the real world.
> If you’re not thinking about what is computable, what is not computable, and what is easily computable as you think about the problems you are trying to solve, you are a professional novice.
Of course I consider all of these things but that didn't come from studying computer science in college lol.
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