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by 3np 1482 days ago
I'm sure we're in a minority but some of us do actually build things like this from source (common for Gentoo, Arch, Guix, and NixOS) and do a quick cursory glance of source changes on every upgrade/rebuild. For a flag like this I may dive into the code of the version I'm running and take a look what's going on.

So with a sample size of one I can tell you that "nobody" is false.

Even not doing that, just the fact that I can know that it's built from a known tag from master on a public high-interaction git repo makes it a completely different story than downloading some arbitrary binary.