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Interesting, thanks for sharing! Is it not open-source? I could not find a github link.

I didn’t release the source yet but plan on doing so.

The documentation does mention building from source, maybe edit it or add a note to avoid confusion?

Still though why would you release and announce this before being ready to share the sources? You're telling people to run a shell script that not only fetches and installs a random, closed-source prebuilt binary, but also runs it automatically after fetching it.

Nobody in their right mind should be running this script or recommending it to anybody.

You’re absolutely right. I merely wanted to share my own story / tool and listed the link to be complete.

I mean you still went through the trouble (unless you don't check the AI's output at all) to design this entire prebuilt release process, and then encourage people to blindly run it. Regardless of what you want to achieve with this post here, you should expect this kind of pushback if you promote unsafe practices like that.

Well I am using this release process myself (and a couple of friends), along with the auto update feature. So it is still self centered.

While I agree with you on the unsafe practices, let’s say this is closed source: what is different then? People download and run closed source apps all the time.

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