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The Internet Gods, 2018:
Security! Security! SSL everywhere! Mandatory two-factor authentication! Full-device encryption! Hardware on-chip secure enclaves!
The Internet Gods, also 2018:
let's just give Jeff Bezos all our private RAM, and the official Node.js installer is literally curl | sudo bash
@natecull To be fair, RVM (Ruby's VM manager) made the `curl | bash` approach to installation quite popular back about 7 years ago.
But, this questionable behavior goes back even further, to the Usenet days, when people regularly distributed ".shar" archives. Who here is old enough to remember those? ;)
@vertigo @natecull I remember them, but I have even seen them recently. Ruby's not necessarily the best example of good practice.