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What are some software red flags? (lemmy.fedioasis.cc)
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Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?

What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Exactly, it's a shift in responsibilities from the developers of a thing to the users of that thing.

As a grunt at work and a mid-tier "money haver" at best, I'm tired of having everything shift its costs onto me and it's a red flag that prevents me from installing and running a software package.

Everything around nowadays does this shift if they can get away with it.

I have to set limits on what I tolerate to achieve what gain or the world will leave me dead with a giant tire mark across my chest.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    as a foss dev, your problems aren't my problems.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    As a sporadic foss contributor and foss advocate, I ain't even installing your shit if the only install option is curl pipe to shell.

    And I also do think it's a red flag exactly like the original poster was looking for.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    if you're dumb enough to pipe curl to bash you deserve everything you get.

    rtfs

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    I hate Windows partially because you have to download a bunch of random executables. Making that same security hole into a one liner in bash and making that the only install supported is not an improvement in any way.

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