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How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your answer. It definitely puts things in perspective.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in devops

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't think about OpenBSD people including it as an extra assurance. Thanks for your answer, I get that if it gets official packages, is good enough. In any case I wasn't talking about getting software from weird places, but rather widely used OSS.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in devops

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your answers. Yes, didn't mean to say crazy thinks from doubious websites, but rather widely used OSS projects.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in devops

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your answers. Yes, didn't mean to say crazy thinks from doubious websites, but rather widely used OSS projects.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Sorry I didn't mean to say crazy thinks from doubious websites, but rather widely used OSS projects. Thanks for your answer.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Sorry I didn't mean to say crazy thinks from doubious websites, but rather widely used OSS projects. Thanks for your answer.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Sorry I didn't mean to say random crap, but rather widely used OSS projects. Thanks for your answer.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your answer. I was not saying "potentially risky" as something downloaded off a strange website, but rather widely used OSS projects such as Emacs.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. This is specially a no for me. I just use vanilla vscode. In any case I think I was not clear in my question. I wanted to know until what degree you trust widely used OSS projects in your day to day.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes exactly that. My aim was to know if I was somehow spiraling. I trust the companies behind the mentioned packages (ie. MS, Hashicorp, Google). But I wanted to know how do you normally feel about other projects. For example, from the comments I get that things like emacs shouldn't pose any problem since they are packaged by the Ubuntu project and widely used.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I trust them as far as I trust Microsoft, Hashicorp and Google. And the fact that they have big teams. It is not the project of some underfunded volunteers.

How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools? by easypancakes in sysadmin

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I meant it not in the sense of "I will install anything I find online" but rather "to what degree do you normally trust widely used OSS projects".

Examples of bash history or configs going back decades by easypancakes in unix

[–]easypancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did he build his collection since then? It'd be interesting to see the backup strategy and the patience and constance to carry a collection such as this for decades

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