• frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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    11 hours ago

    What sketchy executables are you downloading?

    What makes downloading steam from valve more sketchy than allowing a Linux repo to run arbitrary code as root on your machine for every single one of thousands of pieces of software maintained by strangers?

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      28 minutes ago

      I remember going to source forge to download MPC-BE

      Later found out that they were adding adware to executables