My interpretation: advocating for privacy without making effort to avoid a large part of the society goes "crazy" will not protect you much on the long term.
I do like "engineering solutions" (ex: not storing too much data), but I start to think it is important to make more effort on more broad social, legal and political aspects.
I had great success with Lenire, at the end of the six month (twice a day, 30 minutes) treatment the intensity of my tinnitus had definitely decreased, but almost more importantly I'd been reconditioned not to focus on it as much.
I use Wealthfront and highly recommend it. In addition to a normal managed portfolio they've also recently offered a direct investment option tracking SPY with a management fee equivalent to the ETF's express ratio. Great for scraping a couple dollars off your tax liabilities with loss harvesting. Can share a referral that (iirc) reduces management fees for a couple months if you're interested.
This is great, I've been looking for a service that does exactly this for a while now. Any thoughts on a hobbyist plan between free and indie? The jump from 100 to 500k feels like a lot.
It's tiring how reactionary the average HN commentor/contributor can be. It's not a replacement for standard git commands, it's a set of tools for interacting with GitHub. There are other commands for interacting with repos in GitHub specific ways so leaving out cloning a GitHub repo would have felt like a strange omission. Of course they're going to promote their own tool on their own website, that is generally how businesses work. You don't have to use it, no one is making you use it.
You "finally" made an account to be counter-reactionary for MS? This improves the conversation how?
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MS has a long long history, any animosity they receive is well-earned. E.g.:
> "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] that was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
> The strategy and phrase "embrace and extend" were first described outside Microsoft in a 1996 article in The New York Times titled "Tomorrow, the World Wide Web! Microsoft, the PC King, Wants to Reign Over the Internet",[5]
Name a single thing Microsoft has EEE'd in the last 20 years. There isn't one. All the examples from the Wikipedia page are from the 90s or early 2000s at best (and most of those seem to be about lawsuits for things that happened a few years earlier). The only recent mention is about "Windows Subsystem for Linux", and those fears turned out to be entirely unwarranted.
Do I like Microsoft? Not especially; it's a large corporation that acts in its own self-interest in an a-moral way. But it's also no longer the Microsoft of the 90s. In fact, almost everything is different: leadership, employees, revenue stream, business model.
I recently bought a couple of cheap "college kid" laptops from the mall to use as dumb terminals. Before installing Linux on them I figured I'd play a round of my favorite old video game "Rome: Total War" (i got a Steam account just for that. Oddly the game won't play on Linux (although I'm sure I recall playing it through Wine back in the day, but maybe that's wrong?) so I figured I'd keep Windows on one of the laptops long enough to play through a round of the game.)
The laptop would not let me start to use it until I had activated Wi-Fi and connected a Microsoft account! It literally would not leave the init wizard until I had "phoned home" to the corporate cloud.
> Name a single thing Microsoft has EEE'd in the last 20 years.
See above.
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In reply to nfinished sib comment:
> "Ask HN: GitHub just added a feature I don't like to GitHub" is a conversation worth having?
The whole Windows activation story sucks; 100% agree on that. But it's not "EEE". I don't follow how it's even remotely similar.
Aside: I just have a Windows VM for testing, but I bypassed the account "requirement" for that by disconnecting from the internet when installing Windows.
Well then I don't know what to tell you. From my POV as a "Free" software fanatic* it all seems "of a piece": VS Code is a Trojan Horse, GitHub is insidious, etc.
(* I'm one of those who sees the "Open Source" movement as a distraction from the main point of the "Free" software movement, although I have to admit that most people haven't heard of either of them, and of those who have, most can't or don't distinguish them.)
Embrace, extend, and extinguish is a very specific term, which means – quoting Wikipedia – "a strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors."
I just don't see how "need Microsoft account to log in to Windows" even remotely fits that. I don't know of anything Microsoft has done in the last 20 or so years that fits that. I can tell you of specific things Microsoft has done in the last 20 years that I don't like, but that doesn't make it embrace, extend, and extinguish.
I think especially if you want to promote Free Software it's very important to keep a cool head and not get too clouded by past grievances. IMHO people are fighting yesterday's war with all of this to the detriment of today's war.
> Embrace, extend, and extinguish is a very specific term, which means – quoting Wikipedia – "a strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors."
That sure sounds like gh vs git to me (the thing this thread is about.)
> I just don't see how "need Microsoft account to log in to Windows" even remotely fits that.
The have embraced and extinguished the very idea of owning your own computer. These laptops come configured as dumb terminals for their corporate cloud. They EEE'd the Dynabook yo!?
> I don't know of anything Microsoft has done in the last 20 or so years that fits that.
I'm sure there are examples of MS following their playbook over the last three decades, I'm not going to "google it for you", there are probably lists kept by people who care more than I do.
> I can tell you of specific things Microsoft has done in the last 20 years that I don't like, but that doesn't make it embrace, extend, and extinguish.
I feel like you're missing the forest for the trees. The EEE thing is a strategy or tactic to achieve the overall goal: getting between people and their hardware and "extracting rent". That's their whole thing, yeah?
GitHub acquisition, VS Code, etc. Everything they do is EEE, whether it looks like a sheep or a wolf, it's a wolf.
Incidentally, that's why I don't accept the "Ship of Theseus" idea that MS has turned over in the last few decades. The ship is still a ship.
> I think especially if you want to promote Free Software it's very important to keep a cool head and not get too clouded by past grievances.
That's what I'm saying: the very idea that these grievances are past is exactly what I have a problem with, because they're not past. If anything, MS is succeeding.
> IMHO people are fighting yesterday's war with all of this to the detriment of today's war.
Following the war metaphor, I think we (the Free software folks) have clearly lost completely. We have been roundly defeated. Most people have never heard of us, let alone know what we're even about.
The closest thing to a front in the "War of General Purpose Computing" is the farmers fighting the tractor companies for the right to repair their tractors now that they have computers in them.
They're right though. HN users are generally only viewed favorably by other HN users, it's a community that is dominated by reactionary pedants. I say this realizing that I too am a reactionary pedant.
> HN is great because most users stick to the subject of discussions rather than devolving into ad-hominem attacks.
On at least three topics I've consistently found this to not be the case: Google, Microsoft, Cryptocurrency (also: Richard Stallman, suckless, but those come up less often).
I find that these threads often devolve pretty fast away from "the subject". I actually dislike all three of those things as well; I use none of their products save for GitHub and haven't for years. But that doesn't mean that everything these companies do is part of a sinister machiavellian plot to take over the world. And not everyone involved in crypto is a sociopathic scammer looking to steal your money, either, even though I think crypto overall is a net negative.
> It's curious that your account was created exactly one minute after this post was posted, for precisely one insulting comment.
I'm really not trying to "gotcha" here, but you're kind of proving my point with this remark.
while a PR doesn't exist in git it is no more than a branch with extra data attached to it
I've been using GH at work and personally for a while now and i never wanted/needed to use the GH CLI/GUI, the IDE will cover you if you need it to.
If they really removed the easy to use copy button it would be annoying but calling it "extinguish" is definetly some HN warrior attitude. They didn't remove it though, just moved it a bit and OP is being a bit dramatic
