whenever I hear about people installing millions of lines of code from someone they've never heard of from npm or whatever, I imagine them finding a hot dog on the side of the road

and they're like "oh cool; free hot dog!" and I'm like "you're going to eat that?" and they're like "yeah of course; it's a free hot dog! have to be crazy to turn that down" and I'm like "huh"

@technomancy The terminology is SOUP. Software Of Unknown Provenance. It's normatively defined in the medical device development standard IEC 62304:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_of_unknown_pedigree
Software of unknown pedigree - Wikipedia

@bms48 TIL! handy terminology