In-reply-to » I can't believe software developers are still trying to get people to do curl | sh. 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 Yep, so wrong on so many levels.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just don’t want to run such crapware. Browser, mail client and video player aside, I think I don’t do too bad on that regard with my private stuff. Yeah, definitely ignoring the situation at the dayjob.

@prologic@twtxt.net Only for Rust. Otherwise I stay away from that for sure.

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