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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Supply chain attacks have been a trendy topic in the past years.

Has the meaning of 'trendy' changed from what I'm used to?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's 2024, if you're not exploiting CI systems to inject your malware into the dependency chain for large open source projects, what even are you doing with your life?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's 2025 now but otherwise yeah

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Not according to my, completely malware free, waybar-git-real!