On 08/02/2021 16:54, TCW wrote:
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https://betanews.com/2021/02/08/linux-based-raspberry-pi-os-secret-microsoft-re
po/
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Non-issue.

It's for VS Code. A bundled and IME a very useful application *.

Many other applications provide the same kind of telemetry for their
developers to catch errors. I doubt it does anything unless ye run the
program, which does self-update in normal use so it does need to know an
Apt repository.

Even this program (thunderbird) has that. If you run it, you will notice
T&C's to be agreed.

Should we ditch all connected applications because we don't understand them?


* best thing MS ever wrote, IMO.

They even open sourced it. Apache Eclipse picked it up, and I use this
browser based variant of it from docker running under node.js / electron.

https://theia-ide.org/

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Adrian C

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