Yup, the only way to combat this as a smalltime dev would be to turn off auto updates and make people build from source.

m-schuetz 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why woul building from source be safer? Are you veting every single line of third-party source code you compile and use?

You're sure not vetting any byte of an executable, so building from source is safer.

	▲	m-schuetz 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Binaries or source, it's pretty much the same unless you thoroughly vet the entire source code. Malicious code isn't advertised and commented and found by looking at a couple of functions. It's carefully hidden and obfuscated.

yea `curl <url> | gcc` is much safer...

	▲	trympet 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.