It was removed a month later anyway. Now VSCode can be installed through the main repo.
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SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 year agoThanks, 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.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
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?
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.
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.