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I’ve never seen code that is downloaded run itself. Why not be the change you want to see in the world and run sudo or spawn your browser in a jail. Or download as another user.


Welcome to npm post-install scripts... https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/using-npm/scripts


And Rust build scripts: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html


glad pnpm disables those by default!


PSA: if you're using (a newish release of) npm you should have something like this as a default, unless you've got good reasons not to:

min-release-age=7 # days

ignore-scripts=true




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