sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or noticewww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square50linkfedilinkarrow-up1345arrow-down16
arrow-up1339arrow-down1external-link"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or noticewww.windowscentral.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square50linkfedilink
minus-squareuenticx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·4 days agoShameless plug for codium: https://vscodium.com/
minus-squareplacebo@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·4 days agoAfaik, 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
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoCopilot is part of the github extension I believe not base vscode
minus-squareplacebo@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agoIt’s part of the git extension, not github, according to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 My understanding is that there is a separate extension for github: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/github Or do you need both for this co-authored thing? In any case, the point is that vscodium is still based on the same source code, and Microsoft can do anything with it.
Shameless plug for codium: https://vscodium.com/
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
Copilot is part of the github extension I believe not base vscode
It’s part of the git extension, not github, according to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 My understanding is that there is a separate extension for github: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/github Or do you need both for this co-authored thing?
In any case, the point is that vscodium is still based on the same source code, and Microsoft can do anything with it.