Heads up: Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Do we have a thread on GNUtards?

We do have an Open Source Software Community thread. It's not dedicated to GNU zealots but they naturally feature pretty heavily in the thread.

 

[Coffee Shits]

This was only "secretly installed" for retards who don't know anything about apt.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

The articles at Techrights are even more fun:

http://techrights.org/2021/02/02/microsoft-pi/

http://techrights.org/2021/02/03/eben-up-the-microsoft/

http://techrights.org/2021/02/05/pi-apology-and-trust/

http://techrights.org/2021/02/06/facts-on-raspberry-pi-foundation/

http://techrights.org/2021/02/06/raspberry-pi-under-second-microsoft-attack/

http://techrights.org/2021/02/07/lunduke-on-raspi/

Raspberry Pied in the Face -- Part II: Raspberry Pi Foundation in Violation of GNU/Linux Rules (Because of Microsoft)

The blunder that harms the reputation of the Raspberry Pi (to appease or to serve Microsoft objectives like the ones we saw at Intel) is far from over; some have only just found out about it and they’re as mad as hell

techrights.org

Raspberry Pi Foundation added a little fuel on the fire by being quick to lock threads as usual and having a bunch of autistic white knights dwelling on the forums.

 

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http://techrights.org/2021/02/02/microsoft-pi/

That actually sheds a bit more light on it. Yeah, even if you think VS Code isn't Electron-fuelled cancer, giving a company as untrustworthy as Microsoft the ability to serve their own versions of system packages to specific users based on their IPs should they so desire sounds a little unwise.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

If anyone cares, you can follow this thread that they didn't lock:

Microsoft GPG key suggestion - Raspberry Pi Forums

www.raspberrypi.org

Microsoft GPG key suggestion - Page 7 - Raspberry Pi Forums

www.raspberrypi.org

The reason I left the message (about four or five pages ago) is to tell people that we are doing something, but haven't yet decided exactly what we're doing from the many options (some of them require us to get approval externally first, some don't).

We have now changed the priority of the Microsoft repo so they wouldn't be able to install a package over ours.

We haven't yet removed the repo from the lite version because we think we'll have a better solution in the next couple of days.

We're not ignoring the community, but making sure that the solution we come up with will tick as many of the boxes as possible (you can't please all the people all the time)

Gordon

 

[tehpope]

Bruh, i never want to live in a world where I get my tech news from a place called "cybercity.biz"

Is this a fundemental flaw of the hardware on the PI, or specifically some of the images?

Google literally recommended this to me on my phone. so idk.