GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:01PM (#28147664)

As slownew45 points out, Github does not make money from individuals who use it for free. Of course such use will become increasingly difficult over time for Microsoft pinheads to justify from a business perspective. Telemetry, full-on surveillance and ultimately subtle manipulation of individual software authors seems an obvious choice to try to justify why Github should continue to allow non-paying individuals to use their repository.

The Facebook web browser. Never say never. If we knew what we know today about privacy, we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google.

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Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by laumars on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:00PM (#28148362)

> The Facebook web browser. Never say never. If we knew what we know today about privacy, we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google.

Google were already making money off targeted ads at that point. There was even an outcry about GMail scanning people’s emails several years before Chrome was released. But you could probably argue that we didn’t fully appreciate just how bad things would get at that stage. Many of us were just happy to see Microsoft get some competition.

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Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by Cyberdog on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:56AM (#28170596)

> we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google.

I still try to, but it’s a lost battle already. (Don’t use Chrome, BTW.)

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