Clockwork PicoCalc is a retro handheld powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico
The PicoCalc is a new handheld with a retro design. At first glance it looks more like a graphing calculator than a modern handheld device. But it sports a QWERTY keyboard, a 4 inch display, and a mainboard designed to accommodate a Raspberry Pi Pico.
Available for $75 from the Clockwork Pi store, itβs also the latest in a line of retro-inspired, modular, and open source products from the [β¦]
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Am in the only one who cringes at install instructions that require piping some curl output into bash?
curl https://some-url | sh
I see this all over the place nowadays, even in communities that, I would think, should be security conscious. How is that safe? What's stopping the downloaded script from wiping my home directory? If you use this, how can you feel comfortable?
I understand that we have the same problems with the installed application, even if it was downloaded and installed manually. But I feel the bar for making a mistake in a shell script is much lower than in whatever language the main application is written. Don't we have something better than "sh" for this? Something with less power to do harm?
Matthias Mair
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