pedroaraujo

Not to mention that they keep investing in things that people don't necessarily care about (like the crypto currency embedded in the app).

It is kind of beyond me why people would submit to monthly donations to a company which only care about its own interests.

I don't understand these kind of posts. Can't people just use a regular smartphone phone and _not_ install Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.?

There was a point in time (10 to 15 years ago) in which HN was actually a good forum to check out, you could learn a lot from the discussions here.

But then it grew massively. Nowadays, it is no better than classic Facebook comments or r/technology on Reddit.

I don't know why people just keep comparing the core protocol to the client. They can both be developed independently, in fact, you don't even need to use the official client, there are many open source alternatives.

If you think something is broken, you are free to contribute to a patch, the project is open source.

At this point, we are talking about a really high education of a certain language on a thread about a tool to help people going from zero to say basic sentences on another language.

They are two different things. I mean, I am sure that there are academics with superior knowledge than me on my own native language.

A 16 month course of 6 to 7 hours per day with a lot of exercise and you didn't learn the language at all?

I don't think Duolingo is a good solution but in your case you had all the opportunity to become fully fluent with that kind of regime, it starts to be your fault.

Absolutely, there has been a dramatic shift in the type of people who visit HN in the past years.

I used to think that Reddit was bad in this regard but to be honest it mostly affects the big subreddits, the niche and small ones still have a high quality community. HN became pretty much like the biggest subs on Reddit.

But this doesn't grant remote access to your system, and it's not like Microsoft will start shipping replacements of core packages over this repo.

This feels like a huge overreaction.

"(...) every time an install of Raspberry Pi OS is updated it will ping a Microsoft server. Microsoft will know you're using Raspberry Pi OS/likely Raspberry Pi owner and your IP address."

How is this is an issue? It doesn't require any login and this is exactly what happens with every APT mirror.

I imagine that Raspberry Pi OS is an distro meant for people who simply want things to work out of the box, I can see why the Raspberry foundation would want to add repos for easy installation of the VSCode.

If you want tight control of what happens in your system, you are free to install any other distro you want.

The upvoted answer didn't really answer the OP.

I get that level 3 means that the device is able to detect physical tampering. But why would I need this if anyone can just plug the USB stick into any PC?

The amount of FUD that goes on HN related to hardware never ceases to amaze me.

Sometimes I find myself double checking if I am really on HN and not on Facebook.

This is slightly disappointing, I was expecting it to be some kind of case for the the Compute Module (or at least for the RPi4. I don't know if it's unrealistic, but it would be nice to have some sort of upgrade or repair possibilities.

Not to mention it is terrible for searching.