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I can't believe software developers are still trying to get people to do
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. It's easy to miss the problem if you're still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think they'd realize that this is never a good idea.
@mckinley@twtxt.net That certainly doesn’t help, yeah. 🥴
(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)