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'Windhawk' Is Like an App Store for Windows Mods
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
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About as useful as an “I agree to the terms and conditions” checkbox tbh. Open source code suffers horribly from misplaced community trust. The most deadly type of gathering for children is a pool party surrounded by adults. Because if everyone is watching the kids to make sure they don’t drown, nobody is watching the kids. Every single person independently goes “I don’t need to worry about it, cuz someone else will notice.” If everyone is auditing the code, nobody is auditing the code.
This also implies that the average population has an astronomically higher capacity to read code than actually exists. The average Excel user can’t read most simple Excel methods.
I don't understand your argument. Closed source is better?
No. Simply pointing out that urging users to audit the code is a lost cause; The vast majority of users won’t even know how to read the code, much less how to check for exploits or backdoors.
Yep, looks like code to me!