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Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by greatgib on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:57PM (#50419102)
It is so crazy how normal it looks that a random website suggest you to do a "curl -fsSL https://install.duxlabs.dev | sh" to install anything, and most people would stupidly do it without even thinking about it.

Someone coming from 10 to 15 years in a past would think that people are crazy now. And looks like that he would be right when you see the amount of vulnerabilities and stupid breaches like people being pawned just by doing an update with npm or so.

Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by hnlmorg on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:03PM (#50419148)
People were doing this 10 to 15 years ago too. And the same debates raged on HN.

Eg https://hn.algolia.com/?q=curl+sh