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0 pointskrageon3y ago0 comments

If you're committed to being an idiot no amount of rules of thumb will save you. Not understanding what you use is one facet of being committed to that.

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jraph3y ago

But people don't live in a vacuum. They live in an ecosystem, are subjected to it and contribute to it.

If I contribute to Nextcloud or write an app for it, I need to run npm. If I want to run PeerTube, I need to run npm. They both pull a shitload of dependencies I can't possibly review.

I personally avoid building anything using NPM and advocate for fewer / no dependencies, or for using dependencies packaged by reputable entities like Debian, but what can I do? I can't build everything myself.

Am I committed to being an idiot?

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jraph3y ago

But people don't live in a vacuum. They live in an ecosystem, are subjected to it and contribute to it.

If I contribute to Nextcloud or write an app for it, I need to run npm. If I want to run PeerTube, I need to run npm. They both pull a shitload of dependencies I can't possibly review.

Am I committed to being an idiot?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse