Comment by raincole
2 hours ago
> he was skeptical and concerned at the idea of just downloading and running an executable from somewhere on the internet.
It's quite concerning that you frame this as a bad idea.
2 hours ago
> he was skeptical and concerned at the idea of just downloading and running an executable from somewhere on the internet.
It's quite concerning that you frame this as a bad idea.
> It's quite concerning that you frame this as a bad idea.
Downloading and executing other people's compiled software is how things worked for many decades. It's only been in recent years that people have come to believe that Google/Microsoft/Apple should be the final authorities on which executables are safe to run.