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• SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks, that makes more sense. According to an article on ars it doesn’t actually install anything so I don’t see their problem. All they have to do is comment out the line or just use a different distribution.

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  • Adanisi@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the main problem is just screwing with the system like that without permission. I mean, I know I was pretty pissed off when I found a Microsoft repo in my sources one day. It’s not like it was a standard update or anything.

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  • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was removed a month later anyway. Now VSCode can be installed through the main repo.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OK they apparently did, but they did it very silently, because I never noticed, maybe because I switched to Debian.

      forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=306597

      But you are right they did it after about a month. If only they had owned up to it. Or at least announced it more clearly.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For the overwhelmingly paranoid, there is one further possibility: if Microsoft were to make packages available in its repo with the same names as packages in the standard raspbian.raspberripi.org repository specified in /etc/apt/sources.list, it could override the “real” system packages with others of its own making.

    I love the “overly paranoid” label, when you’re talking about a repo than can alter “real system packages”.

    In what world is this OK?

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    • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s not the same as their claim that Microsoft software was pre installed and has access to your system which is what I’m arguing was incorrect.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=303549

    arstechnica.com/…/raspberry-pi-os-added-a-microso…

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