As it wasn’t mentioned before: GitHub Discussions also launched in 2020

That GitHub comment makes my brain hurt and gives me Microsoft community forum advisor (run ChEcKDiSK tO mAYbe fIX tHe ProBLem) and “leave the multi-billion dollar company alone” vibes.

Also it’s not a single line - when looking at the source file - and a complete section instead.

GitHub Copilot, as used in the documentation here, is free and integrated into the IDE.

1. It’s inside the dotnet Docs. dotnet has nothing to do with an IDE. You can code/run dotnet code in any editor or terminal if you like.
2. This person assumes that Visual Studio is the only IDE for dotnet. Looks like they never heard of Rider or VS Code or anything else.

I do not think that you can call it an ad if it is for a free tool.

WTF is he defining as an ad? “Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service”. The whole section is bascially “Hey you can use Copilot to do this” - that’s an ad right there.

Even if you interpret this as encouraging users to pay

Makes no sense. Does this person think ad = you have to pay for it???

it is hardly the first time that dotnet documentation guides users towards paid Microsoft products: are we going to start complaining about all pages with references to Azure next?

1. A deployment target is not the same as “AI”
2. If a page/section is not named like “How to deploy example app to Azure” then it shouldn’t contain any reference to Azure. And yes you should complain about such stuff if it exists.

The only part of this I actually object to is that I don’t think that what essentially amounts to ‘prompt an LLM’ belongs in documentation, although at the very least the page does disclose that the output may be erroneous.

That’s basically what the whole issue is about. WTF are you even talking about then? Just shut up and give an upvote.

Overall a totally useless comment.

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD.

Not sure if you read this blog post: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/04/unified-pycharm/

Rest assured – our commitment to open-source development remains as strong as ever. The Community Edition codebase will stay public on GitHub, and we’ll continue to maintain and update it. We’ll also provide an easy way to build PyCharm from source via GitHub Actions.

PyCharm is - like all JetBrains IDEs - based on intellij-community and the “Pro” stuff just some fancy pre-installed plugin that requires a license.

Alternatively, you may choose to manually switch to the new PyCharm immediately and keep using everything you have now for free, plus the support for Jupyter notebooks.

So all community functionallities will also be available in the unified edition for free.

Also the Pro license - which you can also get 4 free in like 10 different ways - pricing is extremely fair: A license costs $100-60 for an individual, which is cheaper than most streaming subscriptions…

Here’s a corresponding clip: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=bPBzj90Su8A

Can’t wait for all the other horror stories getting posted here :D

Off topic: Why is there a “gift” code and various tracking paramters in the url?

Url does seem to work without them: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough

It’s literally as simple as importing an ipset into iptables and refreshing it from time to time. There is even predefined tools for that.

While AI crawlers are a problem I’m also kind of astonished why so many projects don’t use tools like ratelimiters or IP-blocklists. These are pretty simple to setup, cause no/very little additional load and don’t cause collateral damage for legitimate users that just happend to use a different browser.

No need to do that, you can simply scroll down to the footer and find the current version there ;)

With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers’ source code

Not when using a self-hosted F-Droid Repo - which is the case for Ironfox.

because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot

What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?

saying there are unspecified “known vulnerabilities” within Signal

His source: Trust me bro

There are some more privacy friendly forks of “Firefox for Android”, which have sponsored shortcuts disabled or minimized by default. For example:

• https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
• https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Feel free to give them a try :)

The same apps that have access to more of your data (because they’re not sandboxed in a browser), use electron (ships a browser) and include trackers that one can’t simply block with an extension?

Yeah but have you ever tried to install it directly?

There is stuff like notarization that’s literally designed in a way that only Apple approved software can be run on your machine.

Has since been removed.

Here’s the original.