The danger behind professional requests on LinkedIn

I was asked to install malware during a fake interview

Once or twice a month, I get a reach out to join as a technical advisor. I got two in the last month, except both were fake and meant to install malware on my machine! Both had a similar script. Someone reached out over LinkedIn to join their team as a technical advisor. Then they share a link to their code respository - without even asking me to sign an NDA or adding me to their org! Then I was asked to try out the code where doing npm install alone would have triggered the malware. Here are the stories in detail. ...

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The real lock-in in GitHub is not the code, but the stars

GitHub stars have no value on their own. But ask yourself, what would differentiate a project on GitHub from GitLab if not for these stars?

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Common pitfalls of GitHub Actions

If you create GitHub Actions via GitHub’s UI by going to the URL of the form `https://github.com///actions/new`, it provides templates for setting up the build. However, the template is broken. There are four problems with the default template