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On the other hand, at least the code has gone through some review.

Compare that to NPM or PyPI, which is full of crap. Some of the modules in PyPI were merely ads for putlocker, without even a single line of Python.

>Some of the modules in PyPI were merely ads for putlocker

Seriously? Are they still there?

I think that's the point of this parody.

Sure, but even playing with this joke on a machine that has your personal or work data is a very stupid thing to do.

Do not do that then.

It's all arbitrary and unknown unless you verify the whole thing yourself down to the kernel.

And then you better hope that the processor dies are as advertised.

Also, this is a joke.

Am I dumb? How is this a joke?

I think the commenter was being facetious haha

> Do you ever feel like all you're doing is copy/pasting from Stack Overflow?

I don't really feel like anyone is taking this very seriously.

It seems pretty apparent from the readme that it's a joke along the lines of "If you're going to just copy and paste the first thing you find on Stack Overflow, you may as well do this."

Job security for us, I guess...