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		philipwhiuk 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded mor... Running a C compiler on everyone's machines to avoid a bit of work is extremely dumb.

cleartext412 5 months ago [–]

Modern internet is build on premise of repeatedly running megabytes of javascript on everyone's machines to avoid a bit of work.

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