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> Skimming the repo it has about a thousand lines of code and a bunch of dependencies with hundreds of sub-dependencies. Do you read all that code and evaluate the reputation of all dependencies?

I usually do a quick check to see if there's any red flag. Like URLs or Base64 blobs. I also try to stay away from programs written in languages whose environment I don't know so I can check if any dependency stands out wrt what the program claims to do.

> Do you execute it in a sandboxed environment?

Either I run it on an untrusted server, or on my laptop as an unpriviliged user (with no access to X/wayland).



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