oh so like yt dlp will now require a js runtime because of youtube fuckery, and the one they recommend above the rest is "deno"
I click on github releases and
A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.
oh no that's Claude
and then I look at their website and seeing announcement for
A new Deno Deploy API for running untrusted code in secure Linux VMs. Built for AI agents; made for you.

unfortunately deno is the "correct" choice here. the node runtime for yt-dlp is an unsandboxed and potentially dangerous fallback