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This project is mostly useless, and I say that as someone who uses ungoogled chromium as their primary browser. The only apparent practical reason for this to
by semiquaver 3y ago
This project is mostly useless, and I say that as someone who uses ungoogled chromium as their primary browser.
The only apparent practical reason for this to exist is to disable telemetry. But the telemetry built into VSCode can already be completely disabled by configuration. And if you don’t trust that configuration to do what it says on the tin you should also not trust a piece of software built from the same source.
- mcpackieh 3y agoAre VSCode builds reproducible?
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- bobim 3y agoInteresting point, I’m using Codium exactly for this wrong reason then. In the end trusting or untrusting without the intellectual capacity required to verify is no different from faith. That’s maybe why 100’s rabbits approach to computing with uxn is so appealing.
- zogrodea 3y agoI think trust is a strict synonym of faith, capacity to verify or no. Trust means to believe someone's claims, without certain 100% demonstrative proof. It ceases to be trust when you verify the claims yourself, but the capacity to verify makes no difference to what it is. Not that trust is bad or anything. I remember hearing from someone that it used to be safe to keep house doors open, because people trusted each other, and that it's safe for a 6 year old girl to travel by train alone in some places. Can't help but feel we have lost something.
- infamia 3y agoWith Vscodium you also aren't exposed to all the closed source extensions (e.g. Pylance). MS aggresively pushes proprietary extensions on everyone, which does only heaven knows what to your data and machine. Vscode is in all practical purposes open core surrounded by a lot of closed source. This despite the fact that they like to pretend they altruistically love open source. Same old MS as ever. Only trust what you can verify with that lot.