Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by shash on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:52AM (#46393787)

You mean you’d rather run unverified scripts using a good order of magnitude more resources with a slower experience and have an entire sandboxing contraption to keep said unverified scripts from doing anything to your machine…

I know the browser is convenient, but frankly, its been a horror show of resource usage and vulnerabilities and pathetic performance

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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by whstl on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:21PM (#46394089)

The #1 reason the web experience universally sucks today is because companies add an absurd amount of third-party code on their pages for tracking, advertisement, spying on you or whatever non-essential purpose. That, plus an excessive/unnecessary amount of visual decoration.

The idea that somehow those companies would respect your privacy were they running a native app is extremely naive.

We can already see this problem on video games, where copy protection became resource-heavy enough to cause performance issues.

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