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Instead of pasting it in terminal, I opened a new tab and read it. There’s maybe 200 lines, most of which aren’t relevant to my platform. Didn’t see anything un
by janalsncm 2y ago
Instead of pasting it in terminal, I opened a new tab and read it. There’s maybe 200 lines, most of which aren’t relevant to my platform. Didn’t see anything unusual.
I then proceeded to install tens of thousands of lines of code I didn’t read onto my machine.
My point? People really seem to be bike shedding this install script bit. If I was a malicious actor I wouldn’t be hiding the bad parts in the install script.
- whalesalad 2y ago200 lines versus the actual install steps which is 1. wget the tarball, 2. extract the tarball to .local/bin, 3. done, or a few more steps to add the desktop file.