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by TheCoreh 46 days ago
This is malware. It's doing something the user doesn't acknowledge or want, that has potentially destructive/negative consequences. Expecting users to have read the website (when they can might have installed this via a package manager, for example) is not reasonable.
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You're right, I don't want the software on my devices doing things the user doesn't acknowledge or want, that has potentially destructive/negative consequences. Down with that sort of thing!

So when are we nixing Widevine, EasyAC, carrier locks on phones, and TEEs that the user can't look into?

> So when are we nixing Widevine, EasyAC, carrier locks on phones, and TEEs that the user can't look into?

Contrary to popular belief, most users want those sorts of things or the things they enable.

jqwik users want the sort of things that jqwik enables, too.
I'm not sure it can be malware if it's not some kind of -ware; like an SQL injection attack isn't malware even though it's attacking a weakness in the system
It’s the AI agent that deleted the tests, not the library.