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4 months agoInstalling by piping from curl is pretty common and not a red flag in and of itself. Even Rust is installed this way. If you don’t trust the URL, you also shouldn’t trust any binary installers downloaded from that website.
Installing by piping from curl is pretty common and not a red flag in and of itself. Even Rust is installed this way. If you don’t trust the URL, you also shouldn’t trust any binary installers downloaded from that website.
Android and iOS don’t let mobile apps run continuously in the background. If an app is closed or in the background, it generally can’t talk to its own servers.
Instead, Google and Apple provide a service that allows the apps’ servers to push a message even if the app is closed.
If you take out the employer-side taxes and cost of benefits, maybe. A fair number of their employees must be software engineers, and that much compensation isn’t unreasonable for expert software engineers.
So this effectively changes nothing.