If the project maintainer has a policy of "no politics allowed."
Rather than a policy more along the lines of "be respectful"
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Something I ran into just now was AI generated Imagery in Docs or as an Icon.
I am not even that Anti AI as many on here I feel like. But this is a sure fire way to show how much you don't give a shit about your project. Just use emojis or some shit which is ironically even less work but somehow makes it seem more deliberate.
I tried to explain that to my manager but he didn't believe me
Bun seems cool, but it's icon looks too much like slop
I don’t think it is. IIRC they had that before AI Image Generation was widely available. You really can’t tell though with the simple cute art style which AI can very easily recreate.
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GitHub repo that has "pm me on telegram" instead of code
join our discord
Venture capital funding. The plan is always to do a rug pull. Though if it properly freely licensed and the code is reasonable enough to be forked, it's less worrying but still risky. It's better to work with honest people.
Only Linux install option is .deb
curl | shinstallation method- vomit-colored website, vomit-colored developer avatars, or more obvious: AGENTS.MD in the repo
- compiling yourself is "unsupported"/"not recommended"
- the official website aggressively advertising the company's SAAS which makes it look like their opensource software is actually paid product
- github issues using convoluted template, instead of letting me write freeform text
Noob here, what's wrong with curl | sh installs?
In THEORY they're bad because the script could do malicious things and you shouldn't blindly trust random people on the internet telling you what to execute.
In practice it's mostly fearmongering because you're likely trying to install a binary that could do malicious things anyways. "Mostly" because it is a bit less safe as one could MITM the script more easily or something, but not really by that much.
You shouldn't run curl | sh scripts some random person sends you, but running an official script prom an official source is no more dangerous than running a .Deb file from that same source.
“Download this shell script from the web and execute it right away.”
Probably close to 80% of the words in the sentence are wrong.
As others have said, you are boldly trusting that the script you’re downloading is safe. ALWAYS examine a script before you pipe to bash. Also, open the script in your browser, the copy paste j to your terminal. It’s entirely possible to change the script based on use agent to display differently when your check in your browser versus when you pipe to bash
It forces you to blindly trust that whatever script curl will download is save to run and does exactly what you want / was promised as it will be executed right away.
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Support only through a Discord server
Especially in the homebrew/modding world some even only distribute their stuff over discord. Which is an extra level of stupid. Dont think anything else can beat this.
Stalker Gamma comes to my mind, for that you had to join a discord in order to access the launcher, that launcher would auto download and install a bunch of mods for Stalker Anomaly into one big modded game.
Soma Assetto Corsa mod packs were only available to download through Discord, it was awful
I recently deleted my Discord account. This is an immediate nope for me.
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The repo does not actually contain the source code, instead a link to download from a different site.
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It's not already in my distro's package manager
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A github project with 1000 open issues and no commits for 3 years.
Ubuntus package repo is so out of date though. It's such a pain in the ass.
You clearly haven't seen Debian stable.
- New post about a promising selfhosted app
- looks inside
- em dashes, emojis, release in last 24h with 35 commits since.
I fucking swear, if only vibe coders would ACTUALLY write up their own posts about THEIR OWN SOFTWARE, many would not act harsh towards them as much as it happens.
"Ads, In-App Purchases"
That game is gonna be full-on enshitification.
If I can remove the ads, and unlock pro features with a one time purchase, sure, but if the app is charging me monthly, that's a deal breaker.
I'll see that and raise you a "app is free, but all functionality is paid, which you only find out after you have used the app for its intended purpose and now want the results of the work that you did, specifically when attempting to rescue files from your phone, for instance."
I'll also toss in "all functionality is paid on a subscription model that automatically renews unless you manually disable it and you have to buy at least in one year increments"
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"To use program xyz, sign up!
Requires cloud connectivity.
Evidence of vibe-coding. Em dashes and emojis sprinkled throughout the documentation? Code with inline comments pointlessly describing some change, as if you want to know what that block of code used to do more than what it actually does?
It's vibe-coded garbage by someone who doesn't know how to code. Stay far away.
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The size of the download button
Cant remember what they are off the top of my head, but there's been a couple of times I wanted to download a FOSS program, but it was only available to install through the Microsoft store.
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