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  • Debian is unable to manage modern dependency trees because they chose not to. It is fucking embrarassing what happens with any “normal and modern” thing in cargo, npm or other cursed repository pulling in 2000 dependencies you have absolutely no hope in being able to vet for malware or stupid bugs. This comes on top of a culture of API instability between one minor version and another.

    Debian has their packages and those are tested and inspected in depth, regressions are tested. There are people running debian for a job and we don’t want that kind of nonsense.











  • Disagree on your first point. AI will generate code that is mostly correct, the human time cost of (properly) reviewig this code and correcting it is generally less than also writing it. People that do more serious work than vibe-coding oneshot skateboard simulators in html do actually get noticeable productivity boosts even when every generated line of code is reviewed by multiple people.

    That is why the kernel allows it, because they mostly care that a human is around that will take responsability for it, that the patches are of the same quality than always and that everything is manageable by humans. This is in contrast to the techbro github repo with commits that span 20 files and 2k edits where there is no hope in hell to understand what is going on.


  • Look op, you kind of want to drive around without wanting to put in the work to either lern how a car works or what the road rules are.

    Security is not something you install and the you got it.

    I highly suggest to learn what the common risks are and how they work, then how to counter them.

    This whole security and privacy thing requires both effort and knowledge, that is why corpos fuck over people so much, because they ain’t willing to put in the work to care.

    P.s sorry I reread my answer and I come off a bit harsh, what I mean is that by prompting a community like this with your kind of questions like if we were an AI will not work towards getting you good answers. You need to learn first and one of the first lessons is that there is no security and a casual “I will be opening sketchy files”. A better question is: how can I open sketchy files and still be safe?