musescore-downloader VS vscodium

I love this kind of behind-the-scenes, in-the-weeds video, and it's well done.

Unfortunately, the incident with a Muse Group director openly blackmailing an open source developer [1] [2], threatening to have him deported to China while specifically calling out his public criticism of the CCP with a disgusting "who knows how he may be received"—well, to say that this incident leaves a bitter mark in my memory would be an understatement. I am happy to be using other free software for my engraving and playback needs, and with Tenacity just recently having published its first stable release, I'm eager to drop Audacity, too.

Truth be told, I was never a heavy MuseScore user, but I have used Audacity regularly for decades. This turn saddens me, but it matters to me how those I support use their power, and threatening someone's life over an audio program is bullying more severe than that which I can condone.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881539

[2]: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...

I recently discovered that [https://musescore.org](MuseScore) (not free) has an incredible GreaseMonkey script that easily bypasses their paywall. It has worked a bunch of times for me in the last few days: https://github.com/LibreScore/dl-librescore

Someone mentioned this one: https://github.com/LibreScore/dl-librescore

If I have to choose one, I would say musescore-downloader https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/141 unfortunately

You can look at this fork: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium and see how they did it.

Vscodium for me

binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

> Visual studio is open source

Sort of. The core is, and the installable binaries with telemetry and properietary extensions are not.

The open source, telemetry-free version of VSCode is called VSCodium: https://vscodium.com/

> Didn't cusor fork it and is building it features directly into the fork?

Yes, in their recent interview with Lex Fridman they argued that life as an extension is too limiting.

The main reason we criticise Microsoft for doing this and not them is just their size and market dominance.

Why jump through hoops to make competitors better able to hotwire their own AI into VSCode, or hotwire Copilot into their own IDE, when it's easier to iterate fast and remain unpredictable?

> If you enjoy a rabbithole, look at how much DRM there is in Pylance (another extension that MS has locked down): https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641

The funny thing is that I’ll never understand why it’s not open source and why its license prohibits its use in VSCodium. Pylance is good, but not that good. Certainly not on a level of PyCharm. What incentive do they have to keep it secret except being evil?

If you're gonna go with a VS code extension and you're aiming for privacy, then I would at least recommend using the open source fork VS Codium.

https://vscodium.com/

Go to the VSCodium website.