There are oodles of neat and singular programs on github and similar. Curious what steps people take to vet for malware before downloading and trying stuff, especially if you’re not very familiar with the coding language it’s written in.
There are oodles of neat and singular programs on github and similar. Curious what steps people take to vet for malware before downloading and trying stuff, especially if you’re not very familiar with the coding language it’s written in.
One thing that can help (more for libraries than large applications) is “dependency cooldowns”. Basically don’t use the latest version of anything until a few weeks after its release. The hope is that most malicious changes or blatant bugs will be caught fairly early.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
Validates my feelings as a Debian user