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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative (andrew.masto.host)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This doesn't pass the smell test.

Instructs to pipe the output of curl in sh
Assumes that sh is bash [^1]
"Community" behind it is apparently originating in Berlin, and is now a "nonprofit foundation in Switzerland", but has no publicly disclosed legal structure anymore.
"Community" behind it uses discord, but not revolt, matrix, simplex or others.
"Community" behind it uses twitter, but not mastodon.
Cryptobros.

[^1]: sh <(curl -sSf https://url.redacted/script)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Installing by piping from curl is pretty common and not a red flag in and of itself. Even Rust is installed this way. If you don't trust the URL, you also shouldn't trust any binary installers downloaded from that website.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rust is a red flag

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why?

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