alt Hacker NewsWhich is wild we’re coming full circle. Everyone made these things easy to publish to so we could onboard newbies faster but then we all figured out that sacrificing security to save someone 10 minutes of reading was a bad idea.
Don’t get me started on everyone being [email protected]…
Not quite the history as I remember it. These package managers were often created by small teams of people who originally didn't know they'd turn into Microsoft acquired corporations. The intent wasn't to onboard newbies. People just didn't have a reason to use insanely targeted attacks on OSS Things because OSS being used in such a widespread manner wasn't as common as it is today. It really feels like people have forgotten how things were back then.