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by socalgal2 149 days ago
How is this any different than anything else devs do? Devs use `curl some-url | sh`. Devs download python packages, rust crates, ruby gems, npm packages, all of them run code.

At some point the dev has to take responsibility.

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Devs download python packages, rust crates, ruby gems, npm packages, all of them run code.

You allow developers to download and run arbitrary packages? Where I came from, that went out years ago. We keep "shrinkwrap" servers providing blessed versions of libraries. To test new versions, and to evaluate new packages, there's a highly-locked-down lab environment.