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This, but unironically
I'll be honest, I have no idea. Sometimes, I get nagged that a package is insecure, and it seems reasonable like an old version of Electron, and then I just sigh and add it to my list of packages to ignore that warning on.
And yet countries, given free choice, came running to NATO. Curious 🤔
Trust is a broad term. If you're paranoid, find the package you care about here, and read every line:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
If you're slightly less paranoid, check the git blame logs for anyone that's touched a package you care about. If you trust all of them, then you're good.
If you're less paranoid than that, assume that someone reasonable is in charge of that repo. You'll get warnings about insecure packages. I've had to Ok a few insecure packages in my configuration.nix, because I assume the packagers are reasonable people. I may yet find out I've made a mistake.
Broadly speaking, I think it's the same model as any other distro. Debian for example has volunteers that package stuff. You can go through the same process above and decide how paranoid you want to be for that as well.
The founders don't like each other on a personal level, and I haven't heard about any updates since then, so until there's new life breathed onto the project somehow, I'm assuming that it's on the back burner at best.
I'm bearish on Elementary. Their recent-ish drama where the founders split up doesn't seem good for long-term stability:
How would this apply towards the Reddit API situation? I'm torn between didn't know and didn't care
I wonder how hard it will be to just scrape the HTML to accomplish this. It'd be a bit of a cat-and-mouse game, but you'd probably get pretty far just using Google's user agent string. I kind of think Reddit wouldn't actually care about scraping vs API access, since all of Reddit's dumbfuckery seems to be coming from spez panicking due to investor pressure, and I'd bet investors don't have the faintest idea what "scraping" is.
The comic is fine, but that title is just word salad