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New comment by chokolad in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

chokolad — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:55:22 +0000

> I don’t use windows, so most of this doesn’t affect me, but I do use GitHub and VSCode. Can anyone clarify, once and for all, whether “GitHub Copilot” and “VSCode Copilot” (sic?) are the same product? The documentation isn’t even clear, and it’s important because it affects billing. How do these two products interact and where do they NOT overlap?

There is no VSCode Copilot. There is Github Copilot integration inside VS Code.

New comment by chokolad in "Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds"

chokolad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:48:49 +0000

> And despite all the marketing to differentiate from say Meta, Bluesky has no problem scraping and feeding everyone’s posts to AI.

All BlueSky data is public. Literally anyone can scrape it and feed everyone's posts to AI.

New comment by chokolad in "I'm betting on ATProto"

chokolad — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:44:21 +0000

> This year, I'm betting less social media as being better and in the long-run a new protocol that learns from the mistakes.

Can you list protocol level mistakes made by ATProto?

New comment by chokolad in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

chokolad — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:24:40 +0000

> There's everything wrong when "agentic" means that the regular bread-and-butter functionality of the OS becomes unusable

Can you provide an example of agentic functionality in Windows making regular bread-and-butter functionality become unusable?

New comment by chokolad in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

chokolad — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:19:06 +0000

Have you worked in those areas with high saturation ?

New comment by chokolad in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

chokolad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:53:11 +0000

> I’ve seen Microsoft employees run public presentations from MacBooks on multiple occasions.

This is specifically done to show that Microsoft tech eg .net is not tied to Windows.

New comment by chokolad in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

chokolad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:51:22 +0000

> while iOS, Android, and macOS account for the rest. Of these devices, approximately 45 percent are

Pretty much everyone has an android or iOS device in their pocket. A lot of those devices are enrolled into Microsoft MDM in order to access email/teams/etc. These phones are part of the stats. Dev work in general is done on Windows boxes, unless you are in specific teams that have other requirements. Default is Windows, specifically Windows laptop.

New comment by chokolad in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

chokolad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:57:12 +0000

It's not true. Source - me, MSFT for 25 years.

Practical Decentralization

chokolad — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:26:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154608

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by chokolad in "I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)"

chokolad — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:18:18 +0000

Hey.com calendar has recently shipped a very nice year view

https://world.hey.com/michelleharjani/building-hey-calendar-...

New comment by chokolad in "I was right about ATProto key management"

chokolad — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:16:46 +0000

Can you clarify - are you implying that BlueSky team made protocol hard on purpose, in order to "tell regular people that they are not allowed to participate"?

New comment by chokolad in "DHH: AI models are now good enough"

chokolad — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:52:41 +0000

The claim was > DHH has long past the point where anyone should be caring about his technical opinions.

I asked for evidence, you are replying to something else.

New comment by chokolad in "DHH: AI models are now good enough"

chokolad — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:39:55 +0000

> DHH has long past the point where anyone should be caring about his technical opinions. This is a 0 substance post.

Can you elaborate?

New comment by chokolad in "Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla's Cameras Aren't Enough"

chokolad — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:38:19 +0000

stop derailing the discussion...

New comment by chokolad in "Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla's Cameras Aren't Enough"

chokolad — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:36:18 +0000

how on earth 3 links to Github actions price increases are relevant here ?

New comment by chokolad in "Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)"

chokolad — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:18:50 +0000

> I hope this churn in .NET builds is temporary because a lot of people might be looking to go back to something stable especially after the recent supply chain attacks on the Node ecosystem.

Can you elaborate a bit? This article talks about internal machinery of building .net releases. What does that have to do with "this churn", whatever that is?

New comment by chokolad in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

chokolad — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:14:37 +0000

What's stopping you from doing it now ?

New comment by chokolad in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

chokolad — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:04:59 +0000

Majority of actual Xbox services are working fine, xbox.com itself is busted.

New comment by chokolad in "Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git"

chokolad — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:04:57 +0000

> Interesting to hear it was so much of a problem in terms of onboarding time. Maybe Source Depot was particularly weird, and/or MS were using it in a way that made things particularly complicated?

It was not. It was literally a fork of perforce with executable renamed to sd.exe from p4. Command line was pretty much identical.

New comment by chokolad in "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation"

chokolad — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:07:36 +0000

> find someone with charisma like obama.

Obama was a moderate politician with massive charisma