... which by now is a banana republic of the worst kind. Can you interact sanely with an insane counterpart? Avoiding to visit would be my recommendation too.

Certainly one way to be smart about it. Sadly not that much of a surprise.

Which in and of itself should already be a super obvious total no-go. Every device will eventually go out of service or will be decommissioned, for a multitude of reasons. Then what, I lose all access, because I went from an iPhone to Android? WTF?

Executing downloaded code without prior review always is these days, regardless of the tool that does it.

> You don’t even have to run a git command, just opening this directory in VSCode is enough to get infected.

The old adage that Microslop and Security in the same sentence is a contradiction in terms still applies, now with a vengeance.

Never open 3rd-party stuff with VSCode.

More incentive to keep up enshittification, lest your appreciation of de-shittification wane.

`find` has `-print0` and `xargs` has the matching `-0` flag for this. So this specific argument makes me doubt the author knows their tools. Stopped reading at this point.

That's why e.g. cross-generational learning rarely works. If culture or technology still allows it, you have to repeat the stupidest mistakes of your parent generation to learn the same lessons. "Learning from the mistakes of others" in your own generation equally hardly ever works. So much less if the lesson involves falsehoods you wanted to believe.