I might be mistaken, but I think that if you use the free version, it's also opt out, because IIRC it's also an individual non-commerecial licence.
For individuals on non-commercial licenses: Data sharing is enabled by default, but you can turn it off anytime in the settings.
At least on the prouct page, the free tier is literaly called "Rider Non-commercial", under Individuals tab.
Hahaha. Not gonna lie, I really hope we will see as much similar stories as posible. Will make for at least slight case against mandatory age verification for other countries, to not follow in UKs footsteps.
For me, the issue isn't as much that they are forcing the data collection (on some/free people, to be clear).
I have issues with the way they are spending their development money, that I give them for the product. I don't care about the AI hype slop, that apparently can't even get good results (which they outright admit in the blogpost), instead of actually making the core features of the editor better. Everyone knows at this point it's a hype bubble that will never be usable, and they are grasping at straws.
I don't want to pay 200$ a year only for them to add a dumb chatbot and data collection into my IDE, or make the code completion dumber and random instead of actually being deterministic. So I don't, canceled my subscription and I'm sticking to the perpetual license while slowly switching to nvim. But I can still make fun of them about it. I have been recommending JetBrains products for most of my life, and they have disappointed me with the direction they are going, so I'll make sure to un-recommend it.
The context is that they made a blogpost that's written in, at least in my opinion, extremely pleading tone. They are basically crying that they can't make a good AI with public data, and if you please could turn on their new AI data collection that would steal all your code. I've seen a few "we will use your data for AI" posts, and this was just unsettling, with the tone in which it was written.
I can't really say why, but I find this style of communication pretty unsettling. It does have exactly the same wibe as the picture in the post.
So, if you pay for their IDEs, nothing changes, but you can opt-in into them using your data for AI training, and they are pleading you do. If you use the free version, it's opt out and turned on by default.
I don't think it's misleading, or at leas the point was not to imply that they are forcing the data collection (which they are, for free users, but it is opt-out). The point is that they are actually downright emotionally manipulating in the blogpost. The blogpost in which they announce it, at least in my opinion, is written in exactly the same tone as the picture. They are basically crying that they can't make a good AI without stealing your private data, pleading you to turn it on.
I've seen a few similar posts of products announcing AI data collection, and this one was the most unsettling, hence the meme.
That's exactly what I did, switching from Rider. LazyVim helped with getting a usable setup (especially LSPs are pain to setup without it), https://www.vim-hero.com/ taught me the absolute basics of navigation, and then I simply installed IdeaVIM into Rider to force myself to use it, and switched my default editor to LazyVim.
It has already been a few months, and I'm pretty used to it. I still fumble here and there, I still have to stop and think then doing more involved operations, but for the basic editing I wouldn't go back.
The most important observation I have is that it does not make me more efficient at editting text, the fumbles and mistakes usually offset any gains I have from the many navigation/jump/repeat keys, and reaching for the mouse would be quicker, but -
It's super fun. Learning new motions is satisfying, you can see progress, and by slowly adding a new motion, then trying to get it to your muscle memory is simply fun. And there's always something to learn, a new motion to add or make more efficient. It's basically gamified text editting, and if you like mastering things in the muscle memory sense, it's awesome. I'd absolutely recommend everyone to make the switch, but not for "being a faster/more efficent at text editting" reason, because if you want that, learning every single IDE keybind will make you faster faster.
Also, it's surprisingly comfortable not having to reach for a mouse. It has only been a few months, and I'm getting slightly annoyed whenever a program doesn't have a hotkey for proper navigation and I have to touch my mouse, hah.
If I got a Copilot license, I'd definitely make sure to expend my quota every single day and use it as much as possible. Especially if I was "highly encouraged" to use it.
Just run a markov chain and let it talk to the thing. It's expensive to make the queries, for MS.
I see, but still - how is that different from a regular old .dll injection? Or, just replacing the .exe alltogether.
If you're at the point of R/W/X on a machine, then you have a lot of similar vectors of attack.
That is, assuming there's no privilege escalation, which the vuln report does not mention.
As someone from the first generation that grew up with phones and social networks in school, it will absolutely have a disastrous effect.
I can compare myself to people few years above me, who only got phones, social networks and short form content later in the life, and the effect is huge. I have been trying for years to get rid of PC addiction, I don't even watch shows or use social networks other than Lemmy, but it's still hard for me to do any kind of project because I simply don't have the attention span and frustration tolerance.
I also spent up to 17y.o just playing games and not having any other hobbies. I did catch up on ot later, but since I never really had to spend time alone while working on something frustrating, without constant dopamine, I quickly drop projects and need someone else to work on it with me to keep me interrested. It sucks, and even after years of trying to work on it, I still haven't even started most of what I'd want to do.
I'm lucky I didn't have AI and at least learned to program and make games, I'm already pretty socially anxious, but it's not that bad. If I also had AI during all this, that would summarize or write every text I read/write longer than a paragraph, I can only imagine how worse off I'd be. It's extremely teryfiing.
And no, it's not ADHD, meds don't help, I had a therapy for a few years. It has pretty much the same symptoms, but it's extremely multiplied by the computer and short-form content. It's basically a "learned ADHD" as in not biological but phsychological, and it sucks. It is only anecdotal, but I believe that a lot of people with adhd are simply in the similar situation as I am, engineered by corporations to only be able to pay attention to their content en masse.
I have canceled my subscription the moment they started spending development time on AI hype instead of their core product.
I can still use the fallback licence (you keep the version you've paid a year for, i.e 2023, forever), and I will do so until it stops working, while transitioning to other editor wherever possible (nvim in my case, which I've already gotten used to pretty well thanks to ideaVim)
Until they stop with the overhyped AI bullshit, I won't get a new version. And, seeing how they beg for user data in the most uncanny blogpost possible, that'll probably be never.
It's a shame, I liked jetbrains.
IIRC there is at least one dumbphone that runs signal, https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/, but that's expensive and not something you'd usually get if you think dumbphones.
But yeah, the point of having a dumbphone is not security or privacy, at least for me and most of the people I spoke with about it. The point is you have your phone as a backup emergency comms, and just learn not to use and rely on instant communication and internet access. Maybe an occasional "I'm running late" messages, but other than that, the point is you just wait until you get to a PC.
And even for emergency comms, I had a dumbphone that can make a 4G hotspot, and had a GrapheneOS smarthphone without a sim or internet powered off in my bag. And if I needed to sort out anything, I just fired up a hotspot and turned on the second phone.
The fact that it was annoying several steps was the point, so you do it only when absolutely neccessary, and eventually quickly learn not to do it. It has improved my life by a lot, getting rid of this "always online" addiction/reliance.
Ugh, hate the emojis and the random bold text. Was this written by an AI? It's so annoying to read.