Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Running npm install would give me a mini heart attack

  It should; but more because it installs things right off the net with no validation. Consistency of code product is not the only thing you’re tossing.

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  • LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How else would you get LPAD ? Expect me to write 2 lines of code when I could just import a 100 Mb library to do it for me?

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need to get up to date from three years ago. NodeJS 16.20, or thereabouts, enabled dependency auditing by default.

    I’m still fighting my engineers go get current enough to use this (but we do have a proxy artifact server that also attempts to keep downloads clean, and a dependency scanner)

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  After the first 100, the other 300 kinda don’t matter.

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re on RHEL 8+, you can install the latest version of node with dnf.

  dnf install nodejs will likely install node 8 :(. Use dnf module install nodejs:20 to install the latest version.

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