this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
311 points (97.8% liked)

Privacy

32456 readers
1110 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean by that, isn't node open source as well?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The joke is a lot of devs import random node modules hahaha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wonder if it's really true that this practice is particularly prevalent in JavaScript development or just a false impression caused by it being one of the most, if not the most, used programming language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

is-even has too because it had to be a dependency 💀

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

The Node package manager is used in some web applications and has a very trusting distribution model, but it's not particularly relevant to what I wrote (red herring fallacy), and GP's phrasing alone is enough to identify them as a heckler. Please don't feed the trolls.

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

True that, still, I was genuinely curious