2026-09-22 02:09 UTC
Replies (7)
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@moelassus@mastodon.social 2026-09-22 02:18
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I weep every time I see one of these types of installations. Novice users are often ill equipped to understand the risks entailed and seeing extremely popular projects using this just method tells the novice, "this is totally normal to be asked to paste a mysterious command into my terminal”.
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@EdCates@mastodon.social 2026-09-22 02:54
@nixCraft@mastodon.social sat through an Amazon-guided AWS lab where one of the steps entailed installing something by piping curl through sudo. I was dumbfounded that they were encouraging/normalizing this.
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@levrden@mastodon.social 2026-09-22 02:58
@nixCraft@mastodon.social wouldn't it be even better to explain clearly instead of making fun of people?
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@cogitocomrade@mastodon.social 2026-09-22 04:39
@nixCraft@mastodon.social curl is nice. Im already running some arbitrary code I haven’t read when using any of these packages, so running a script by them doesn’t seem that much less safe :thinkhappy:
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@chipbarm@mastodon.social 2026-09-22 05:23
@nixCraft@mastodon.social it brings some excitement into my otherwise dull life
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@Marcialm32@mastodon.social 2026-09-24 17:16
Their trying to say, or just saying what's up to NixCraft. Can't really just say anything on a page, others sees them comments. But I guess there's issue unmentioned, not just what's up all the time.
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@dqp@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 01:25
@nixCraft@mastodon.social install clumsy blobs, replace content and environment.