I only discovered this recently, and it’s very handy.

Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk. You can always download the scripts, inspect them and run locally if you so choose.

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    2 days ago

    But this is a trusted source with years of credibility. Why would any sensible competent tech user copy paste from other places because this one worked.

    You’ll be pissed when you hear about Linux game server manager then. It’s all helper scripts over https

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      Why would any sensible competent tech user copy paste from other places because this one worked.

      Because sites like this and people like you are normalizing the practice. I have seen numerous curl | sh commands pasted on lemmy telling people “how easy it is to install blank”.