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In the context of current events? Microsoft and Ubuntu were recently exposed to have teamed up and shared contact information of their users with one another t

In the context of current events? Microsoft and Ubuntu were recently exposed to have teamed up and shared contact information of their users with one another to create LinkedIn leads. The Raspberry Pi team recently added VSCode’s repository endpoint as a required add-on to the most popular OS on it because ... he felt like it, but it exposes new and upgrading Pi users to Microsoft telemetry, sooo There is reason for concern given current events.

no_wizard 6y ago
Just so there is a community record of the unrelated Raspberry Pi incident: A. It wasn’t arbitrary. One of the goals of the Raspberry Pi foundation is access to computing and learning. To facilitate that they added this repository to make it seamless to install Visual Studio Code which as of the time of this writing is one of the most popular code editors and often one that is recommended to beginners B) despite reports to the contrary, not a single system package was added, this specifically is aimed at making VS Code installs easier[0] Again concern across the board is okay and things deserve scrutiny, but evidence needs to be provided when making these assertions. I’m no apologist, MS had done some deplorable things, this (and to the extend they were even involved is questionable entirely) is not one of them [0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/raspberry-pi-os-added-a-microsoft-repo-no-its-not-an-evil-secret/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/raspberry-pi-os-adde...