Something creepy about this, though.

Makes sense, thank you.

Genuine question: could this be because of the sudden lurch every company is making to AI?

Oh that’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of this. Is it an unspoken policy? Or its an over reliance on “innovation first” pseudo-management?

Google often feels like a disorganized company with constantly shifting priorities, and a big reason behind that is the lack of top-down initiatives from the CEO. That means the real driving force behind most projects at Google are mid-level executives who show up with grand plans and then leave—either in disgrace or triumph—when those initial plans run their course.

Makes a lot of sense. There doesn’t seem to be a unifying strategy behind anything google does. I also think theres a vicious circle going on here: google has a loyalty problem, which could be solved by long term thinking, usually done by loyal employees, but employees don’t stick around long enough.

As @Deebster points out, on Android & iOS apps need to ask for permission before accessing sensitive commands beyond the kernel. VisualStudio (as far as as I know) doesn’t have a permissions layer. Also the article also mentions that scrutiny is lenient since VSCode is a Dev tool used by (on average) knowledgeable users.

100% agree with you, Microsoft is mostly cost cutting/shirking responsibility by not implementing tighter controls on external code on their tools.

RedHat source is accessible to registered red hat users. That is NOT open source. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

Image mode builds on the success of open source projects such as bootc

I always think its icky when companies advertise open source projects in their propriety closed source one.

Really? I need to go check it out. You got a source by chance?

Since they upgraded their glibc requirements for remote servers from 2.26 to 2.28, I can’t use it to work on important legacy servers. So I am stuck with a version 6 months old. I wish I could’ve used the newer version