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There are oodles of neat and singular programs on github and similar. Curious what steps people take to vet for malware before downloading and trying stuff, especially if you’re not very familiar with the coding language it’s written in.

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[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

In addition to what others said, I use https://openhub.net/ which provides a summary and key indicators.

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