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  • Yes, and it suck.
    I use spotify a lot, and their fake random sucks.

    The distribution favorise some musics (maybe they earn more on thoses ?).
    The distribution make that some music are never played, while some are played very frequently.
    There is no check that the same music isn’t ran twice in a row (I know it can happen with true random).
    A pure random would have an equal distribution on all music over time.
    Thanks to last.fm I can track how many time I play tracks.
    And I use random shuffle almost all the time.

    I got a track that got played 4 times in 2024, and another 21 times, I never started the tracks by myself, it’s the random shuffle.
















  • inside hundreds of organisations (not hundred of installs)

    At the time of the article, the extension listed around 300 hundred installation on the VS marketplace. There is a lot of bots downloading packages, one extension i contribute to, and nobody use it except 3 peoples, have been indicated to be downloaded 238 times.

    If you look at the number of extensions available on the vscode marketplace, and the false positive they listed as “malicious code” (read the code attentively), I’m sure my own extension will show up in their “malicious code” (it isn’t)