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> Ever needed to run code you don't fully trust?

Then the installation instructions include piping a remote script directly to Bash ... Oh irony ...

That said, the concept itself is intriguing.

Your statement initially went over my head. Sorry lol. You can always download the installer script and audit yourself. I will set up proper distribution later.

In case you're interested when you set up proper distribution, I'm working on an open source solution aiming to improve security of downloads from the internet. Our first step is maintaining a mirror of checksums published in GitHub releases at https://github.com/asfaload/checksums/. If you publish a checksums file in your releases it can automatically be mirrored. The checksums mirror is not our end game, but it already protects against changes of released files from the time the mirror was taken. For anyone interested: https://asfaload.com/asfald/

.. did exactly that and also changed the BINDIR and LIBDIR to another location. BTW, amazing project from initial glance. Will give it a detailed look this weekend!

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