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[โ€“] rockrelishpiealamode@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

especially if you're a developer. There are a lot of shenanigans going on with malware npm packages that prey on easy typos. I imagine it's the same with other library installers for other languages too

[โ€“] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Funny you bring this up because it's exactly what I was thinking of. A million small packages and dependencies and who knows if the repos got hijacked