If it isn't still common practice 40 years from now (8/18/2066), I'll give the first person to challenge me and cite this comment $1 USD (or equivalent value in the One-World Order-issued omni-currency that we will probably be using by then).
replyI'll pay 50 eurodollars
replyI mean I think the only chance you lose this is if curl and bash are obsoleted and replaced by one world order get and execute
replyNot long. We are transitioning to your LLM curling an arbitrary markdown file and doing whatever it says.
replyIn the future, all software will be delivered by an unreleased model breaking out of its training environment and installing it on your machine using a novel RCE vector.
replyThere will always be people that need to install software that isn't available via package manager (or whatever other blessed source your platform of choice uses). Any solution you come up with will have the same caveat emptor as "curl | sh".
replyHow is it different from any other installation method?
replyIt does not get vetted by any reviewer or security scanner. It has no package manager to constrain what it can do.
replyPackage managers constrain what software can do?
replyThey use DSLs to constrain the installation process.
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