I agree with this, just to note for context though: This (or rather the package that was forked) is not a wrapper of any official WhatsApp API or anything like that, it poses as a WhatsApp client (WhatsApp Web), which the author reverse engineered the protocol of.
So users go through the same steps as if they were connecting another client to their WhatsApp account, and the client gets full access to all data of course.
From what I understand WhatsApp is already fairly locked down, so people had to resort to this sort of thing – if WA had actually offered this data via a proper API with granular permissions, there might have been a lower chance of this happening.
It has the option of doing that, it asks you if you want to enable the backups.
It also allows you to encrypt the backups with a passkey or a password that you can manually set, client-side.
It didn’t always have the encryption option I think.
I didn’t think it was even possible to install proprietary microsoft extensions in VSCodium, how is that related to the version of the editor and how would it affect VSCodium?
Right. Then the removal of this IntelliCode extension from MS should have no effect on VSCodium users.
I thought originally it may have been an OSS extension, but it actually seems to have been a proprietary project licensed under the Microsoft Software License, similar to Copilot and such.
I don’t really get the issue, I didn’t even know Microsoft published another AI suggestion extension, definitely cool that it used a local model but it does make sense for them to just roll it into Copilot.
IntelliCode was first released in 2018, well before the current AI landscape. The issue here is taking a free, functioning capability and arbitrarily disabling it in favour of a paid product. Microsoft is currently "updating" its internal adoption goals for the AI features it keeps shoving down consumers throats, but I'm sure that pumping the numbers by removing features is surely just coincidental and not desperate at all.
I don't think it's about internet vanity, more about not constantly having advertisements or weird services / AI features pushed into your desktop environment.
I'd love to just run windows if there was a version that didn't have this.
Not sure where to submit a bug report but I chose the option for kids and got this as the 'correct' message for a painting:
> Correct! Well done, detective!
> This image shows authentic human photography with natural imperfections, consistent lighting, and realistic proportions that indicate genuine capture rather than artificial generation.
> Albert Pinkham Ryder, Seacoast in Moonlight (1890, the Phillips Collection, Washington)
The image is not photography, I guess technically it's a photograph of a painting but still, confusing text.
> Flow is faster to use. With Raycast you often need to enter an extension to finish your action. To launch a scrip on Flow I just type "r [shortcut] -> enter" while Raycast is "quicklinks -> enter -> [shortcut] -> enter
That’s surprising to me, since it’s not how it works in the mac version of Raycast.
There you just type the extension name to trigger it, which you can also set an alias for, so I have it set so that if I type “c” then press space I see my list of vscode projects which I can search. “f” goes into file search (I think that’s the default even)
100% of the time when I want to share a file from my phone to another phone, the other phone is not owned by me and I can’t just install some software on it
So users go through the same steps as if they were connecting another client to their WhatsApp account, and the client gets full access to all data of course.
From what I understand WhatsApp is already fairly locked down, so people had to resort to this sort of thing – if WA had actually offered this data via a proper API with granular permissions, there might have been a lower chance of this happening.
See: https://baileys.wiki/docs/intro/
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