do they still make physical copies? if so, I’m pretty sure most indie developers cannot afford that…

you don’t have to make a trip just for that. you can just visit the shop next time you’re nearby.

is that the same as gendarme?

Except with minors who didn’t even make the decision to install that app themselves.

and who cannot refuse to have it installed on devices they are required to use

that’s a weird repo. It’s empty, and has issues disabled while the repo description says that it’s an issue tracker

They’re really in a hurry to kill WMR.

isn’t it just that any major version is only supported for 2 years?

now imagine you getting locked out of your account for whatever reason. as I read multiple people experienced it already.

Beyond pirating, is there a straightforward way to obtain ltsc?

become a company and pay lots of money

the singlefile addon for firefox

the singlefile addon for firefox

and that this thing will collapse

oh and I must also live in texas, right?

I wouldn’t even recognize their voice or face.

I see, but lite is much less effective. google has worked hard to make it lose its capabilities. it may still be effective at blocking youtube ads (though as it cannot use frequently updatable blocklists it probably has a higher delay for fixes when something breaks), but it cannot have specific rules for less popular sites, because of chrome’s low limit on allowed filtering rules, and even though it can hide ads, that’s not the sole function of ublock origin. ubo is a complex content blocker, with versatile tools to defuse site tracking on lots of websites. lite cannot do that anymore effectively, because both its capabilities have been reduced (e.g. it cannot edit network traffic anymore I think), and the number of filtering rules that it can load.

and even before lite, ubo could not be as effective on chrome as on firefox, because of slight differences in the extension api, with not so slight practical differences.

Uhhh, repercussions like what?

sudden closure of donated azure services without prior notification and time to move off.

having to pay back some of the money.

the project planning with the promised donations as a given (they don’t get all of it upfront, but as they get the most of it it’s actually fair) and microsoft either using it as leverage or just carelessly terminating the contract to save money.

in extreme case banning the project from microsoft owned services, including github.

any of that in decreasing order of probability if implementation is different from expected (like not baking in specific security tools to the project) and the parties cannot agree on a solution.

Uhhh, repercussions like what?

sudden closure of donated azure services without prior notification and time to move off.

having to pay back some of the money.

the project planning with the promised donations as a given (they don’t get all of it upfront, but as they get the most of it it’s actually fair) and microsoft either using it as leverage or just carelessly terminating the contract to save money.

in extreme case banning the project from microsoft owned services, including github.

any of that in decreasing order of probability if implementation is different from expected (like not baking in specific security tools to the project) and the parties cannot agree on a solution.

but there are no ways to run anything you want to run by focusing on “altruistic companies”, however you may subjectively define that.

I think you misunderstood OP. their complaint is not that these projects should search an altruistic donor… but that Microsoft is suspicious in doing this, because arguably they rarely have good intentions.

Whatever Microsoft’s involvement is here, it’s not going to be changing the direction of any of the projects mentioned.

let’s hope so

If for some reason something untoward starts happening with any project: boom, fork and new community. It’s that simple.

easier said than done.

In short, these people getting funding for their work is a good thing.

I think OP (and me too) is worried about the terms. like, can these projects abandon github without repercussions? can they start using another code forge in parallel?

I think if they complied that would also go against their mission, because they cannot make information freely available to everyone anymore.

ublock origin non-lite is the shit to go to