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		anthk on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k ins... >is a joke What did you expect? This is a computer to access and manipulate data, not to consume it as a smartphone. Call me when a smartphone locked toyware can do 1% of what Emacs can do. If any, stop using propietary crap to do your daily job.

codedokode on May 22, 2023 [–]

If I am the one who decides what is locked (and not Google or Apple) then "smartphone" security model is good for me.

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