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by tekne 35 days ago
Nope -- those are artisanal, hand-written tokens. I suppose a slopatron could have said that just as well though.

I agree with the UNIX philosophy bit, mind you -- modern browsers don't do that and that is bad.

But you should be able to download new components from the Internet without trusting them -- a separate install step is not only tedious, it also might cause you to add new trusted software to your computer.

Going back to the map example -- you want your environment to be able to auto-download the map painter and paint you the map without needing either to manually do that or to trust the map painter.