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?

  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago
    • how does curl into sh differ from downloading exes from the Web, or pip/npm/crago/mvn install
    • gods forbid people had bad design skills
    • AGENTS.md: gods forbid people used tools that I do not agree with
    • next 2 I agree with
    • people are terrible at describing bugs, they often do not add steps to reproduce, expected outcome, so the bug template helps waste less time