Yep, the big ones (MS, Google) don’t give a shit about your self hosted e-mail server and throw all of your mail to spam. They don’t do that with replies though.

They totally miss retro appeal and hobbies.

And people were not-so-long-ago concerned that phones are spying after them. Now they just send all the info themselves.

Submodules are not the preferred way to incorporate third-party code for any environment I know. And while web-exposed URLs for management tools like Jira or AzureDevOps will need to adapt before the new default can be used, doing so even with a wholesale re-hashing of every commit isn’t technically difficult.

Well, like it or not, they are used. And not so rarely. Now, rehashing will probably work, but it will require every project to do that. If you use more than one submodule which is not under your control, you have again mixed hashes that you can’t fix easily.

Where do you see that submodules won’t cause headaches?

The root problem is that there is no backward compatibility - you can’t mix the two. Why is that is beyond me.

Yeah, MS lost a lot of trust with stupid things and getting that back - good luck with that. I’m gone I switched to Linux since a year (been on Windows since 3.0) or so ago and won’t ever go back even though I still need to run Visual Studio in a virtual guest.