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> Obviously these builds are for purists and that's okay. They're also for busy people. If you use these rather than the ones supplied by MS, you don't have to
by bachmeier 4y ago
> Obviously these builds are for purists and that's okay.
They're also for busy people. If you use these rather than the ones supplied by MS, you don't have to worry about what MS might try to slip in their next binary. I'd say it's more that the people using the MS binaries are the purists that want the "genuine thing" rather than just using VSCodium.
- moonchrome 4y agoYeah - what's more likely - random member of noncommercial OSS build slipping in something malicious or Microsoft doing the same ? Considering the recent NPM "activism" I'd take my chances with Microsoft.
- fartcannon 4y agoMicrosoft's telemetry frog boiling is malicious.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> Yeah - what's more likely - random member of noncommercial OSS build slipping in something malicious or Microsoft doing the same ? Microsoft, the company that made Windows 10? Microsoft, the company that made Edge? Yeah, I'd trust a random maintainer on the internet over MS any day.
- remram 4y agoYou don't have to guess what's more likely since they already did it. The probability of Microsoft putting Telemetry in VSCode is 100%.