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  • 8GB RAM isn’t a small amount (though by no means a lot). As far as RAM usage goes, the amount you need will scale with project+dependencies size, so for smaller projects, it shouldn’t be a problem at all.

    8GB RAM doesn’t tell us about the rest of your system though. What CPU do you have? Is your storage slow? Performance is affected by a lot of factors. A slow CPU will naturally run programs slower, fewer hardware threads means less running in parallel, and slower storage means that reading incremental build data and writing it could be a bottleneck.


  • Right now it’s no big deal to any AI company because more code means more training for the AI, but will we get to the point that they’re happy with code output enough and then turn around claiming they own those?

    At least in the US:

    The vast majority of commenters agreed that existing law is adequate in this area and that material generated wholly by AI is not copyrightable.

    So it seems unlikely that they would be able to claim any ownership.

    As for the rest of your comment (the parts around ownership): you always own the copyright for any copyrightable work you create, including code. When you post on a website, according to the ToS of that site, you’re licensing your comment/code/whatever to the website (you need to for them to be able to publish your work on their website).

    Some (many, most depending on what you use) websites overlicense your work and use it for other purposes as well (like GitHub), but in the US the judges have basically ruled that AI companies can pirate whatever works they want without any attempt to license them and still be fine, so the “overlicense” bit is more of a formality at this point anyway.





  • TehPers@beehaw.orgtoProgramming@programming.devSad about .NET
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    there should be a fork of dotnet.

    Dotnet is maintained by the .NET Foundation and is entirely open source. There are thousands of forks and local clones of the repos under that organization. Rather than hoping someone does this, it’d actually be a huge benefit to everyone for you to create a local clone of the repo and update it now and then, assuming you’re worried it might go down anyway.

    telemetry being totally removed

    DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1, though it’s lame that it’s an opt-out and not opt-in. The CLI does give a fat warning on first use at least (which hilariously spams CI output). Opt-in would be so much better though, and opt-out by default is really not great.

    an alternative to nuget.org

    You can specify other package sources as well, so nothing technically stops someone from making their own alternative. That being said, you’d have to configure it for each project/solution that wants to use that registry.

    Setting such a thing up could be insurance in case they pull anything in the future, too.

    The main thing I’d be worried about here is nuget.org getting pulled. As far as I can tell, it’s run by MS, not the foundation. That’d be basically the entire ecosystem gone all at once. Fortunately, it’s actually super easy to create private registries that mirror packages on nuget.org, and it’s actually standard practice to do this at many companies. This means that at the very least it would be possible to recover some of the registry if this happened.


    For a fork, I would think these would be the main goals I’d look for:

    • Default to opt-in for telemetry, or make it local-only. Telemetry should go to a sink owned by the forking organization if sending telemetry is even possible at all.
    • Default package registry should be one owned and maintained by the forking organization. This would be incredibly expensive though, so they’d need funding for this.
    • Organization should be independent, and not funded at all, by MS. Alternatively, MS can provide funds, but not a majority amount - instead, sponsors are limited so that no single sponsor can fund enough of the fork to have independent control over it. In either case, the goal is that no single company has enough control to shift the direction meaningfully themselves.

  • Please cite one example of Microsoft ever giving a fuck about users.

    There aren’t many examples, but one that comes to mind is the adaptive controller. It’s not cheap, but it’s also presumably low volume, and it’s unbelievably configurable.

    Outside of that, I’m out of ideas. Usually every good change comes in response to user backlash, from my experience anyway. I’ve moved over to Linux by now because I’m tired of dealing with what Windows has become.






  • If he has a rash being formed by the cream, then that means he’s having a negative reaction to it and should not continue using it.

    I’m curious what that rash could actually be. I have my hopes, but it doesn’t look like something good. If he really is taking an excessive amount of Aspirin (presumably to reduce the risk of a heart attack), then it could be as simple as his collar being too tight or rough on his skin. Based on the response they gave, that seems unlikely, though.



  • Since the bottom of an article is usually the least visible, I’ll paste this here to make it more visible:

    “The Copilot Discord channel has recently been targeted by spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot. Initially, this spam consisted of walls of text, so we added temporary filters for select terms to slow this activity. We have since made the decision to temporarily lock down the server while we work to implement stronger safeguards to protect users from this harmful spam and help ensure the server remains a safe, usable space for the community,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Windows Latest.

    Microsoft added that blocking terms such as “Microslop,” along with other phrases in the spam campaign, was not intended as a permanent policy but a short-term mitigation while the company manages to put additional protections in place.

    Whether it’s true or not that the policy was temporary, I guess we’ll see.