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by aprdm 4098 days ago
At least their code is on github and you can inspect..
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Yeah. But reviewing 1900 lines of code before I've even seen a single one of their exercises? That doesn't sound like fun. I would be far more willing to run their app if I could try the actual service first.
So if the code was published as a 1900 line ruby gem, you'd be OK with it? Or would you review the 1900 line ruby gem?
It's not absurd to have a healthy distrust of foreign code running on personal machines, especially binaries from random people with a website while there's no discernible reason for a binary in the first place.