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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Can we take a moment to ask ourselves - how the hell did piping to shell become ok? We have all kinds of method's for deploying stuff - from the age old tarball to the new shinny flat pack. But somehow we also became ok with

Curl foo | sh

Oftentimes as root.