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Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That is some wild shit. Anyways for anyone else somewhat new to all this: when hosting anything, try to stick to reputable projects 1st and be always wary of shady installation tactics (I believe yesterday someone posted about curl bash. This is just a single example). If you want to try something new (as in brand new project), try it isolated 1st on some VM (proxmox helps a lot with this). When you are confident and more people give an approval, then think about putting on the main environment

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

try to stick to reputable projects 1st and be always wary of shady installation tactics

One of the first things I look for are longevity, last updated/activity, and then I look at the issues posted and responses. I like mature apps because I don't possess the intelligence to audit code.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey friend, don't undersell yourself. You do possess the intelligence, but maybe just not the skills.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well, you're very kind. I do know some coding, as in basic stuff. I can get around as it were. Most of it was learned from manually typing in pages of code from outlets like Byte magazine (zoom in) only to find out when you went to run the program, that you left out a semicolon on line # 5362 and a errant indent on line # 9241.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Hah, yes that's also how I remember my childhood. But I never was good at it, though I became a good software project manager instead which works well for me using Claude now. I count that as a win.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The huntarr project released a new docker image 3 times a day…

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So that takes care of the 'last updated/acticity' portion of the trifecta. How about longevity and issues posted and responses. I really know very little about the project as 'arr apps aren't my bag.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

My point was that the frequency of updates doesn’t correlate with quality at all

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

curl bash is not as bad as people think. Nobody downloads and reverse engineers binary packages off of these websites before running them with the same permissions.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 4 months ago

Yes and no. It is definitely absolutely bad And yes people do embed things in binaries