I imagine people are downvoting this because it's a joke, but aside from being a pretty good joke, it's actually surfacing a relevant security issue.

Is it really safe that these gists are "always up to date", meaning they can be updated without you necessarily being informed.

Essentially this is a `pad-left` situation all over again - micromodules controlled by other people can be deleted or changed at any time, and some of these micromodules may become very widely distributed and relied upon.