• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Compiling your own packages only ensures that, well, you’re running packages that you compiled. This definitely does not mean that your computer is running what you intend at all.

    Half the time I don’t know what my CPU is executing, and that’s code that I wrote myself.

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      9 hours ago

      This definitely does not mean that your computer is running what you intend at all.

      This is true of all programming

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        3 hours ago

        I like to imagine that the early heroes who programmed in punch cards and basically raw machine code knew exactly what the CPU was the computer was running, but who knows…