Is that really electron's fault though?

Compare vscode memory + cpu usage to whatever IDE you were using before that. It's probably an order of magnitude more efficient.

VS code is not an IDE, its more similar to Sublime.

In comparison to Sublime, it is indeed slower and more resource inefficient- however, it is free and good enough.

Not everything boils down to technical purity, there can be other important factors.

That used to be true but with plugins vscode really has eaten the whole IDE workflow for most people

That’s true of sublime text too. and vim, for that matter.

Perhaps a useless comparison if one thing can be converted into something else; it doesn’t mean that the base of a thing is the thing that can be evolved into.

I don't use vscode (vim user) but I'm horrified by the gigabytes of disk space wasted on shared servers by vscode remotes.

That will just prevent their work from being used by the BSDs, so it's a net loss.

It's not going to stop any commercial activity that they do not like that was already happening.

I know a mechanic through a friend that only works on cars of make A. I took my car of make B to someone down the street.

My mechanic friend heard about it, and gave me the following warning.

The mechanic I was working with had an application where you entered in symptoms (e.g. belt noise), and it would stack rank plausible-sounding repairs by profitability. (e.g., should you just replace the belt, should you replace the alternator, or replace the A/C compressor) It used the markup of the parts needed for each job, hours you can charge, actual hours worked, turnaround time (part lead time), etc.

I switched mechanics, and the maintenance cost of my car dropped 75%. It also was at least twice as reliable after that.

Apps like that (and the plumber one) should be illegal. Their only purpose is to defraud customers, so the developers + the customers should be facing jail time.

There's a store link in the article ("$8"). You can still buy the exact device from Pine for $8.00. (No idea how much shipping + tariffs add).

Ubuntu’s new ln -h is a similar tire fire:

It does something in bsd:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ln

Returns error in gnu:

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ln.1.html

No-ops the command and returns success in new Ubuntu:

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/man1/rust-ln.1...

Given that the selling point of the rust rewrite is gnu compatibility, you’d think they’d RTFM of the thing they were replacing, or at least fuzz the two to confirm identical side effects.

I’m increasingly considering just pretending Ubuntu doesn’t exist. It’s a clown show, and devuan is fine.

Especially since it seems to be a call for Trump, specifically, to control the models.

If you think that’s bad, turn on the successor to x-do-not-stab. Many sites now show three popups: “we noticed the signal”, “optionally enter email to submit request”, “you clicked OK”, when zero popups would do.

And residential proxies are becoming increasingly legitimate because of over-zealous AI blocks.

Blocking IP ranges and user agents has nothing to do with "AI". It's a bad practice by lazy sysadmins who'd rather discriminate users than fix their infra. Writing this from a non-profit ISP (fdn.fr) whose IP range is blocked by Google and Reddit and noone still knows why or how to unblock it [0].

Residential proxies on the other hand i don't think have any legitime usecase. I would support people working around Youtube to export interesting videos to Bittorrent. But what's happening is malicious actors going around rate limiting to run bad-behaving scrapers on smaller sites. That, and much worse is the residential proxy economy.

[0] https://www.fdn.fr/the-fdn-and-gitoyen-networks-are-blocked-...

They should be held liable, in the same way as brick and mortar stores are liable if they sell you shoddy goods, and the manufacturer can’t be found after your house burns down or whatever.