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Milpotelyesterday at 11:27 PM0 repliesview on HN

That's quite uncommon. Typically your distribution checks that the downloaded source/binary has the correct checksum and an experienced maintainer checked the (sandboxed) installation. Here someone puts an arbitrary script online that runs with your user's permission and you hope that the web page is not hijacked and some arbitrary dev knows how to write bash scripts.