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Phil Hagelberg · 8 Apr 2025 · technomancy.us ↗

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    Installing Lua libraries via apt-get tends to produce more stable results than installing via luarocks.

    Their wordsInstalling via apt-get instead of luarocks will tend to get you more stable results.

  2. Our reading

    A library that skips certificate verification by default is unsafe and should not be trusted.

    Their wordsHowever, luasec does not perform any certificate verification by default! This makes its out-of-the-box behavior very unsafe, and I have to recommend against using it for anything.