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Starting 2021 on a Strong Note After a Tough Month

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Summary: We're starting to become more productive again as a January full of trouble and endless nuisance is behind us; we're still investigating the affairs of the Raspberry Pi Foundation

THE past month was rather difficult because of some technical issues and various distractions, which are described in this video. Thankfully, now is a good time to belatedly start the year and make a positive difference. Including new leaks.



"It seems likely that due to some backroom real (e.g. payments) the Raspberry Pi Foundation decided to help Microsoft leapfrog/bypass Debian (policy violation) to put spyware if not malware inside "main", covertly spying on users of Debian GNU/Linux without their consent."Most if not all of those issues have been largely overcome; compromises were made (like disabling IPFS some of the day, letting other nodes shoulder the load) and we can now carry on posting more articles per day, knowing they will be mirrored across the decentralised Internet/Web.

Serge Schneider for Raspberry Pi Foundation: Microsoft spyware OK. DRM bad?Right now we're seeing a lot of impact resulting directly from what we published about the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We're still working on this matter.

In the meantime, to prevent Microsoft infection of your Raspberry Pi (in case you've not run system update yet; if you did, run sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list first), do run the following:

sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo chmod 444 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo chattr +i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo touch /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo chmod 444 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo chattr +i /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg


Several people we've spoken to intend to at least consider preparing/making/filing a GDPR complaint over this. It seems likely that due to some backroom deal (e.g. payments) the Raspberry Pi Foundation decided to help Microsoft leapfrog/bypass Debian (policy violation) to put spyware if not malware inside "main", covertly spying on users of Debian GNU/Linux without their consent.

The video above says a bit more. We're trying to get back to our old stride/pace. Most other issues are now settled, especially anything related to the workflow and setup.

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