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"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 4 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 31 points 2 hours ago

I would actually support this if the code was generated by the Copilot plugin, but this is just adding a blanket “Sent from my iPhone” on all code commits wtf.

[–] uenticx@lemmy.world 35 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Shameless plug for codium: https://vscodium.com/

[–] placebo@piefed.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

Afaik, they only remove telemetry and branding. Although they are lagging behind a little, so this change didn't reach vscodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2823

[–] placebo@piefed.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

On the flip side, it pushed me to move away from vscode. Whoever did this, thanks.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Beyond VSCodium (which I have switched to since this news), what are everyone’s favorite alternatives that are easy to switch to?

I say easy to switch to because no one is jumping to Vim or whatever on this news. I don’t mean to offend the deeply Linuxed, but they aren’t.

[–] jcorvera@quokk.au 2 points 55 minutes ago

Maybe KDE's Kate. It's available for everything with a mouse and keyboard and works just fine. Not as ultra fancy as Codium, but if you need a quick and easy text editor that isn't all Electron bells and whistles... Kate.

[–] chisel@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Lmao, of course nobody is jumping to Vim. We're all on NeoVim now.