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Re:Tell HN: Startups harvesting GitHub commit emails for mar... by angrais on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:23PM (#30981857)
The real concern should be: Developed as an npm package.

I mean, really? It's a shell script wrapped as a package to gain traction. What has the state of the Dev world become, indeed ...

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Re:Tell HN: Startups harvesting GitHub commit emails for mar... by skinnymuch on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:52PM (#30982548)
I was 99% sure you were exaggerating in a classic HN sort of cliched way. I thought it’s prob in JS code that could be done as shell but this lets it work on Windows too (at least when it came out).

But no. This is actually just a small shell script as you said. Insane!

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