My first thought after reading the article: develoepers NEED to learn to use firewalls such as LuLu(https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html) to get interactive dialogs asking whether any given binary can access any given internet address whether it is a domain address or IP address (which can seem even shadier).
I am an Emacs user but every time I have tried a new editor, including VS Code or VSCodium I blocked access to remote addressed which were prompted to me even though I did not neither authorize extension download nor extension download.
I think it would have been even funny for devs trying out for code challenges while using "interactive" firewalls such as LuLu, then catching the shadiness and blocking access right up.
I am an Emacs user but every time I have tried a new editor, including VS Code or VSCodium I blocked access to remote addressed which were prompted to me even though I did not neither authorize extension download nor extension download.
I think it would have been even funny for devs trying out for code challenges while using "interactive" firewalls such as LuLu, then catching the shadiness and blocking access right up.